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Poorer nations robust in the face of Trump pullout from climate deal

But Merkel, whose country hosts this year's worldwide climate summit, said it was now time to look ahead. Friends of the Earth International said "pulling o...

US to export clean technologies to fight climate change: Environmental Protection Agency

The EPA says brownfields are vacant or unused properties that may be contaminated with hazardous materials or pollutants that present complications when develop...

Timing may thwart Donald Trump's move to quit Paris climate agreement

Our mission has always been to leave the world better than we found it. Trump said the accord "disadvantages the U.S. to the exclusive betterment of other...

Billionaire George Soros warns that Brexit talks could last five years

The net result was neither voluntary nor equal. Soros said the European Union should approach the Brexit negotiations in a "constructive spirit" and at th...

Protests, new climate pledges after Trump's Paris pullout

Through the Under2 MOU coalition , states , provinces, regions, and cities have pledged the common goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 80-95% bel...

Latest leak gives most detailed look yet at iPhone 8

Empirical Financial Services LLC raised its position in Apple by 5.8% in the third quarter. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) last posted its quarterly earnings data on...

Corbyn accuses PM of climate change 'subservience' to Trump

Even in states that may not unanimously join the Alliance, mayors of cities right across the USA have come out to say that they too will keep their promises. Ge...

Oil futures rise on USA stockpile draw, doubts over climate accord

Markets will be moved midway through the trading day once the EIA publishes official figures on US crude oil inventories and other metrics. According to KLR...

Trump pulling U.S. out of Paris climate deal: Axios

Musk said he would leave Trump's business advisory council - fulfilling a promise he made Wednesday if the president failed to keep the U.S.in the historic ac...

Billionaire Bloomberg pledges US$15m to United Nations for climate change

On a separate conference call on Wednesday, White House deputy communications director Raj Shah encouraged conservative pundits and representatives from free ...

We are taking it as a normal game: Azhar Ali

Crucially for us, he has top-scored three times during that run - and 3/13 is improved to 3/9 when he bats at five. But, while England - who had won eight O...

US Decision On Paris Climate Deal "Irrational": Indian- American Lawmakers

Former Secretary of State, John Kerry said , "It's an extraordinary abdication of American leadership". However, experts say that the withdrawal of the US fr...

U.S. not alone in financing global climate fund

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged all governments across the world to "stay the course" and remain committed to implementing the ambitious Paris A...

Space capsule with 2 astronauts returns to Earth

Pesquet (of the European Space Agency or ESA ) and Novitskiy (of Russia's space agency, Roscosmos) have been on the ISS since November 2016. Whitson will rem...

Jamaica disappointed with Trump's Paris deal decision

Mrs May is the only European G7 leader not to have signed her name to the statement. In December past year, DiCaprio met Trump in a last-ditch effort to...

Nintendo Switch Online service detailed; Prices, Classic Game Library and more

Chat functions and the ability to organize games with friends is possible via a separate app rather than an integration directly into the online service. But wi...

US buildings light up green in solidarity with Paris climate accord

Trump's domestic critics included Obama, who said the United States was "joining a handful of nations that reject the future". "The agreement remains in forc...

Africa condemns Donald Trump exit of Paris Agreement

However, in a statement following Trump's speech, UNFCCC made it clear that an agreement signed by 194 other countries and ratified by 147 of them can n...

Anger as Trump announces USA withdrawal from global climate deal

In a strongly worded statement, Merkel said US President Donald Trump's announcement to turn his back on the Paris pact was "highly regrettable, to put it v...

China vows to uphold climate pact after U.S. pullout

Political and social leaders in the Bay Area had mixed reaction to President Donald Trump's decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate change accord...

Touching the Sun Spacecraft Mission Announced

The Solar Probe team will manoeuvre the spacecraft right into the Corona of the sun at 430,000 miles an hour which is 118 miles a second. This probe has...

NASA wants to touch the Sun

The spacecraft will be subjected to extreme heat and radiation from the corona , where temperatures are almost 1,377C (2,500F). A 20-day launch window for the ...

NASA to launch first mission to the sun in 2018

NASA hasn't put an object in orbit around the sun since the Kepler space observatory in 2009, which is kept away from the sun to study exoplanets outside our s...

Laxman hails govt's decision to not play with Pakistan

In Morgan, they have a captain in top form after he racked up a three-figure innings against South Africa . "It's a great place to play cricket ", said Karthi...

UK PM May's election lead narrowing, sixth poll since Manchester attack shows

A failure to build on the working majority of 17 that the Conservatives won at the last election in 2015, against a Labour Party led by radical left-winger Jere...

Shah Rukh Khan addresses death hoax rumours on Twitter

Apparently, this is not the first time the actor fell victim of such death hoax. Khan was lucky enough not to be in danger's path and escaped unscathed, but the...

Sterling hammered by poll showing risk of hung parliament

The new constituency-by-constituency modelling by the pollster YouGov - commisioned by The Times newspaper - showed on Tuesday that the Conservative party...

Loews Corp Boosted Aercap Holdings Nv (AER) Holding

AerCap Holdings earned a coverage optimism score of 0.10 on Alpha One's scale. The stock rose 1.39% or $0.61 reaching $44.63. About 1.39M shares traded. As per...

Chennai Silks fire: Parts of building collapse

Because the building was damaged beyond fix, Tamil Nadu minister RB Udayakumar told reporters that the entire building would need to be demolished by Thursday a...

Trump withdrawal from climate deal gets mixed response from U.S. companies

Announcing the decision from the White House on Thursday, Trump said the Paris deal was not tough on big emitters like India and China . Speaking wit...

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe blasts Trump over climate pact withdrawal

Zinke applauded Trump's decision to withdraw from the climate agreement - coming just a day after admitting he didn't even know what the Paris Agreement is....

United States governors and mayors defy Trump, embrace Paris climate pact

The price of oil has fallen sharply as investors bet that President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement w...

Elon Musk is leaving presidential councils over withdrawal from Paris accord

Musk said on Wednesday that he had done "all I can" to convince Trump to stay in the accord, and threatened to leave the presidential advisory councils if Trump...

Merkel: 'We have to protect Mother Earth' after Trump quits Paris Accord

Even a direct appeal from the Vatican wasn't enough to persuade the president. "She said that the Paris Agreement provides the right global framework for pr...

OneLogin confesses to security breach

Last August, the company warned users that its Secure Notes service had been accessed by an "unauthorized user", but denied that any customer data had been co...