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Italy is to become the first country in the world in which the study of climate change will be made compulsory in schools, the education minister announced on Tuesday. Under a new law, all state schools will dedicate around an hour a week to sustainability and climate change issues from the beginning of the next…

The International Space Station will be the first wine cellar in space after a dozen bottles of soon to be space-aged Bordeaux were launched into orbit.  The 12 bottles of Grand Cru, packed in protective metal containers, docked at the International Space Station after being rocketed into space by NASA. The wine will be aged…

A foreign aircraft likely belonging to the United Arab Emirates or Egypt was responsible for an airstrike on a Libyan migrant centre that killed more than fifty people, a United Nations report has found.  A report drawn up by the United Nations Security Council’s expert group on Libya concluded that the July 2 rocket attack…

WWE wrestlers were “held hostage” in Saudi Arabia and stopped from boarding flights back to the US in a row over payment, according to reports. Nearly 200 stars of the Smackdown brand and their entourage were ordered to wait on the tarmac for six hours at Riyadh International by Saudi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, The…

A knife-wielding assailant injured a pro-Beijing lawmaker and his assistant in Hong Kong, as tensions worsen with protests nearing the start of a sixth continuous month.  Lawmaker Junius Ho was wounded in his chest, while his assistant’s hand was injured. The two of them, along with the alleged attacker – arrested by police – were…

Click:心理治疗 Impeachment is a rarely used tool used to oust a sitting US president from power, and since Donald Trump became president chatter around the "I" word has increased in Washington circles. It first arose following accusations last year that Mr Trump has obstructed justice, but speculation began growing after the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in…

Sudan has launched its first-ever satellite in cooperation with China, in a move that highlights the strengthening ties between the two nations.  The government says the small probe will mainly be used for economic purposes but that it will also provide intelligence to the military and security services. The Sudan Remote Sensing Satellite (SRSS-1), was launched on Sunday from…

More than 200 years after he died of his battlefield wounds in Russia, one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s favourite generals has been formally identified thanks to DNA tests on a one-legged skeleton found under a dance floor. His heirs are now calling for him to receive a state funeral in his native France. Charles Etienne Gudin, whose…

Italian police have uncovered a clandestine workshop which was allegedly producing sophisticated counterfeit paintings by Modigliani and Lucian Freud. Police said that if the fake paintings and drawings had been accepted as genuine on the open market, they would have been worth “hundreds of millions of euros”. The allegedly counterfeit art works include nine paintings…

India’s capital New Delhi was enveloped in heavy, toxic smog on Sunday – the worst levels in recent years – with flights diverted or delayed as politicians blamed each other for failing to tackle the crisis. Every winter, the megacity of 20 million people is blanketed by a poisonous smog of car fumes, industrial emissions…