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A bear entered a supermarket in Numata, north of Tokyo and lightly injured two customers

Dangerous animal

Bear injures two in Japan supermarket, man killed in separate attack

It has long been known that depression is more common in women, but the biological causes remain something of a mystery

Australia researchers

Study finds women have higher genetic risk of depression

Scientists have found the oceans around New Zealand are warming, rising, and turning more acidic

New Zealand's seas warming faster than global average: report

A venomous snake preserved at the Rajshahi Medical College Hospital in Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Snakebite surge as Bangladesh hit by record rains

John Clarke, an emeritus physics professor at University of California, Berkeley, was named a Nobel laureate for his groundbreaking work on quantum mechanics

Nobel physics laureate says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US research

The new physics Nobel laureates laid the groundwork for the development of superconducting quantum bits, such as those used in Google's Sycamore processor

Bizarre barrier-defying phenomenon

Observing quantum weirdness in our world: Nobel physics explained

Indian tea pickers: the country is the world's second-largest producer, and third-largest black tea exporter

Heavy blow to region

Extreme rains hit India's premier Darjeeling tea estates

Photo courtesy of Xiong JinXin shows hikers making their way through deep snow in the Karma Valley of the Tibet Autonomous Region on October 5, following sudden heavy snowfall hit the region

Near Mount Everest

One hiker dead, hundreds rescued after heavy snowfall in China

The Stockholm-based Nobel Committee struggled to reach two of this year's medicine laureates -- one is thought to be hiking

'Living his best life'

Unreachable Nobel winner hiking 'off the grid'

German carmakers are struggling to shift to selling electric vehicles because of stiff Chinese competition and consumer resistance

EU should scrap ban on new combustion-engine sales: Merz

A tranquilised leopard lies inside a cage, after it was caught wandering into a hotel in West Java, sparking panic among guests

Spotted by guests

Leopard captured after wandering into Indonesian hotel

Nepal has deployed security forces with helicopters and motorboats to assist the rescue efforts

Rescuers scramble to deliver aid after deadly Nepal, India floods

Tajik labourer Nematoullo Bassirov shows garbage he scooped from the stream running through his yard mountainous Central Asian country.

Soviet infrastructure

Vast reserves, but little to drink: Tajikistan's water struggles

Appetite-suppressing hormones have been made famous recently with the release of blockbuster weight-loss drugs

Leading the race

Appetite-regulating hormones in focus as first Nobel Prizes fall

Nepal has deployed helicopters and security personnel to assist rescue efforts

Race to rescue survivors

Landslides and floods kill 64 in Nepal, India

A team from Canada's fisheries ministry patrols the Grand River, near Lake Erie, looking for invasive carp

Invasive species

Americans, Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp

Ethiopia has rejected Egypt's claim that its Nile megadam triggered floods in Sudan as 'false'

Accused of flooding

Ethiopia hits back at 'false' Egyptian claims over mega-dam

Panatere metallurgical engineer Jean-Francois Dionne, wearing a thermal protective suit, shows an aluminium ingot

Dream come true

Swiss solar furnaces recycling watchmakers' waste metal

Wolf-dog hybrids are rarer than first thought. Even the theory about how dogs originated from a relative of the grey wolf (pictured here) has shifted over time

After genetic testing

First wolf-dog hybrid confirmed in Greece

The massive blackout, which occurred April 28, plunged Spain and Portugal into darkness

Unprecedented event

'First of its kind' power surge behind Iberia blackout: experts

JP Morgan Chase was among six major US banks that quite the UN-back banking alliance following Trump's election

Amid faltering commitment

UN-backed climate banking alliance ceases operations

“Text With Jesus,” a religion-based chatbot displayed on this iPhone, has thousands of paying subscribers and lets users ostensibly ask questions of Mary, Joseph, Jesus and nearly all 12 apostles

People of faith divided as AI enters religion

Frances Arnold won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and told AFP she was 'disruptive' and 'bored' in the classroom

Unconventional paths that led to Nobels

Heavy rain from the storm inundated the capital Hanoi this week, and floods and landslides damaged homes, infrastructure and farmland across the country

Typhoon Bualoi death toll in Vietnam tops 50

With artificial intelligence use growing rapidly, demand for data centres -- which eat up vast amounts of energy -- is ballooning

Future of data storage?

China trials 'energy-saving' underwater data centres

An artist's impression of the rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 sucking in matter from the disc that surrounds it

Floating through universe

Strange 'rogue' planet spotted guzzling matter like a star

Canadair CL-415 planes, the workhorse of international aerial efforts to fight blazes, are making a comeback, like the one seen here over a 2025 wildfire in Albania

1960s invention

Rising wildfires spur comeback for Canadian water bomber

Beluga whales leap from the water during a performance at the aquarium inside the Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in 2014

30 beluga whales

Canada blocks theme park from sending whales to China

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