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In countries such as Peru, Bolivia and Chile, it’s not uncommon for people who live in foggy areas to hang up nets to catch droplets of water. The same is true of Morocco and Oman. These droplets then trickle down the mesh and are collected to provide water for drinking, cooking and washing. As much as several hundred litres of water can be harvested daily using a fog net only a few square metres in area. For regions with little rain or spring water, but where fog is a common occurrence, this can be a blessing. Читать дальше...

President Biden framed the Inflation Reduction Act as a historic investment in clean energy that would create new jobs for middle class Americans.

Stefanos Tsitsipas was furious at a fan who was "imitating a bee" while he was trying to serve at the Cincinnati Open.

Students in the Sausalito Marin City School District were among the first to step back on campus Wednesday as the new school year gets underway in Marin.

New York City joins a group of nearly three dozen states to ban TikTok on government devices.

NORTH BELLMORE, N.Y. (PIX11) -- When part of Tanya Rush's body was discovered in a black suitcase near the Southern State Parkway in June 2008, police didn't know the mystery of who killed her would linger for 15 years. The Brooklyn mother of three daughters, who was 39, had turned to sex work after she developed a [...]

(Photo credit: David Kirouac-USA TODAY Sports) Quarterback Dru Brown appears in line to make his second career CFL start on Friday as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers visit the Calgary Stampeders. Brown relieved Zach Collaros (neck) and completed 17 of 24 passes for 307 yards and four touchdowns to help Winnipeg (7-2) overcome a 22-point deficit in a 38-29 victory over the winless Edmonton Elks on Aug. 10. Collaros, the two-ti

1. Camp David Summit to Unite U.S., South Korea, Japan - WSJ  The Wall Street Journal
2. Biden to Host Japan, South Korea Leaders at Camp David  Voice of America
3. US, Japan and South Korea to deepen security ties to deter China  Financial Times
4. Opinion | Biden’s Camp David Summit Is a Pivotal Moment for Asian Security  The New York Times
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A new trilateral alliance linking the U.S., South Korea and Japan will enhance cooperation among the nations in key areas, including ballistic-missile defenses, to counter rising threats from North Korea and China..

As global finance markets experience significant challenges, local wholesale commercial property investment firm Mates Invest has launched a timely approach to investing that maximises upside potential in the current investment cycle. By championing the ...

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt may have been Hollywood's golden couple in the early aughts, but now they're considered to be ideal exes. After all, the former couple, who were married from 2000 to...

Timothy Gray of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory led a study that may have revealed an unexpected change in the shape of an atomic nucleus. The surprise finding could affect our understanding of what holds nuclei together, how protons and neutrons interact and how elements form.

Fani Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., asked a judge Wednesday to start the trial of former President Trump on charges alleging he and 18 co-defendants plotted to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results in March — just more than six months away. But legal experts told The Hill such a timeline is...

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Anyone notice that Giants pitcher Ryan Walker has KK eyes?

In the wake of the 1918/1919 “Spanish flu” influenza pandemic, the probability of low birth weight and stillbirth increased among women in Switzerland, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE Kaspar Staub of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues.

In exclusive video obtained by "The Beat with Ari Melber," Trump adviser and ally Roger Stone is seen pushing a plot to overthrow the 2020 Election. In this report, Melber, MSNBC's Chief Legal Correspondent, breaks the exclusive news and reports on its wider context amidst several election probes and indictments. (Check out The Beat's playlist: https://msnbc.com/ari Connect with Ari Melber: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber)

Americans continue to believe the economy is in bad shape, even as statistics show that, aside from interest rates, it has bounced back from the pandemic.

Maybe they’ll produce a bestseller, though they probably won’t.

1. Exclusive: Blinken speaks by phone with Paul Whelan, who is wrongfully detained in Russia  CNN
2. Russia Has Shown Scant Interest in Prisoner Swaps for Dozens Held in U.S. Prisons  The Wall Street Journal
3. Blinken speaks with Paul Whelan, American detained in Russia: CNN  The Hill
4. Imprisoned WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich visited by US Ambassador to Russia: Says he's in 'good health'  Fox News
5. Paul Whelan, held in Russia, gets call from Antony Blinken  New York... Читать дальше...

Among those charged with Trump in the Georgia case are Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and conservative attorneys John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.

Arsenal and Nottingham Forest could soon complete another piece of business after arranging Matt Turner’s switch to the City Ground. The 32-year-old goalkeeper has joined Steve Cooper’s squad as an emergency signing after the Tricky Trees failed to keep hold of Dean Henderson and Keylor Navas. Both keepers have returned to their parent clubs this […]

Giant dust storms in the Gulf of Alaska can last for many days and send tonnes of fine sediment or silt into the atmosphere, and it is having an impact on the global climate system, say scientists. 

A central Florida art museum that was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has sued its former executive director and others, claiming they were part of a scheme to profit from the s...

The Otago Regional Council has welcomed three iwi representatives to its Environmental Policy and Science Committee and Regional Leadership Committee, plus another appointment to its Audit and Risk Committee. ORC Chair Gretchen Robertson welcomed the appointments, ...