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Uber entered a new era as a publicly listed firm on Friday, but shares fell in early trading to $42 (£32.20). Boss Dara Khosrowshahi was among those who rang the opening bell of the … Read more via BBC News – https://bbc.in/2VZNENe Get more World News

A County Down woman who has had surgery following vulval cancer is appealing to women to check themselves and be aware of changes in their genital area. Jill Gordon was diagnosed by chance in 2018, after her cancer went undetected for seven years. Every … Read more via BBC News –...

Dying can be hard on the environment. If you’re buried, you’re going to be pumped full of a few gallons of toxic embalming fluid, which will soon leach out of your corpse and then out of your casket, which will most likely be stored for posterity in a cemetery … Read more via HowStuffWorks –...

Blue Origin is building a lunar lander aptly called the Blue Moon. Jeff Bezos has announced his space company’s shared goal with NASA to go back to our planet’s fateful companion in the next few years at an event for media and space … Read more via Entrepreneur – https://engt.co/2YjDch8...

American police might think it's acceptable to force people to unlock smartphones with their fingers, but increasingly U.S. judges are disagreeing. In Idaho, a just-unsealed ruling from Judge Ronald E. Bush said police Read more via Forbes – http://bit.ly/2EbKYCr Get more World News

Farm tractors, pick-up trucks and combine harvesters from former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe’s dairy farm will go under the hammer to pay off debts, auctioneers announced on Thursday. Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years, owned several farms despite laws limiting individuals to one...

ANC chair Gwede Mantashe has rubbished claims that a National General Council (NGC) could remove party president Cyril Ramaphosa. Speaking to News24 at the IEC results centre in Pretoria on Thursday evening, Mantashe said Ramaphosa would remain at the helm until the ANC’s next elective...

A park in Berlin has designated areas for drug dealers to do business. The manager of Görlitzer Park in the Kreuzburg area of Berlin spray painted pink poxes on the ground to indicate areas where dealers will be allowed to operate, according to the Guardian. Police have repeatedly made …...

Jaguar Land Rover could be bought by French carmaker Groupe PSA, the parent company of Peugeot, Citroen and Vauxhall/Opel, according to reports. A leaked “post-sale integration document” seen by Press Association (PA) highlights the benefits of a union between the two companies, with insiders...

Global rates of obesity among people who live in the countryside are rising faster than those among city dwellers, in part due to greater access in urban … Read more via Popular Standard Digital News Feeds – http://bit.ly/2vRxC9z Get more World News

Kenya and the United States have signed a revitalized Security Governance Joint Country Action Plan in a bid to boost cooperation on governance, anti-corruption, and civilian security. The revamped pact was inked on Wednesday at the end of a two-day inaugural Bilateral Strategic Dialogue ...

Police say they are working to provide security for teachers of the Salvation Army Basic School following the murder of a headteacher there by some teenagers. Five of the six teenagers involved in the attack have been arrested and are currently in police custody. The incident has … Read...

For a continent that did not define its internal borders, Africans are certainly very serious about enforcing these divisions. Excitement creeps up on me – I feel it in the form of a smile, expectation, anxiety, before it slows down to reality and the … Read more via AllAfrica News: Kenya –...