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Top level talks to focus on expanding trade between China and NZ

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Lights out across the globe for Earth Hour 2017

The 11th-annual Earth Hour will take place on Saturday, March 25th, between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Earth Hour is also a good time to examine our lifestyles a...

Canadians turn out the lights for 'Earth Hour'

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Earth Hour BC: will you turn out the lights for an hour?

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Nintendo Switch can be held vertically for some games

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WWF Earth Hour 2017 observed across J&K

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Lights go out around the world for 10th anniversary of Earth Hour

Saturday night, at 8:30 p.m. local time, you might notice neighbors switching off their lights. Non-essential lights and air conditioning in the public areas we...

Palace urges public to observe Earth Hour

Electrical engineer of the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) Amit Dalwi, said, "Around 20,000 street lights in the city were switched off to observe the eart...

Latham leads New Zealand response

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Sueno to LGUs: Go beyond Earth Hour 2017

MOST parts of Brunei will go dark on March 25 as thousands of Bruneians with glow sticks and candles join people from 178 countries and territories in the globa...

Summit invites people to go beyond the ordinary for Earth Hour 2017

Starting at 8:25 p.m., all the lights will be switched off for an hour. The " Earth Hour " movement was globally accepted and celebrated, each year over 172 c...

Waterside Theatre goes dark for Earth Hour

The Earth Hour movement mobilizes cities and businesses who are already working toward a renewable future, and inspires meaningful action among millions of pe...

MSP does her bit to promote Earth Hour

In Sydney, many harborside buildings switched off their lights for an hour from 8:30 pm local time as the call for action began rolling out across the world. Wh...

Iconic Buildings, Monuments Go Dark For Earth Hour

People from 7,000 cities in 172 countries participated in the event, reported news agency Reuters. Gareth Redmond-King, WWF's head of energy and climate polic...

See what it's like to fly through stunning Southern Lights

An astronomer, Griffin said he was inspired after seeing the Southern Lights while flying as a guest on a NASA observatory plane. During the flight, the pas...

Hundreds arrested in violent crackdown on protest in Minsk

They witnessed one elderly woman being knocked to the ground by riot police before being arrested. "Basta' means get out!" said Alexander Ponomarev, an unempl...

Blizzard Announces StarCraft: Remastered, Due Out This Summer

We knew that Blizzard was working on a StarCraft remaster, and now the company has finally confirmed it with an official StarCraft Remaster announcement. Star...

Low 'Life': 'Alien' knockoff reaches for the obvious instead of the stars

Rebecca Ferguson, Olga Dihovichnaya, Hiroyuki Sanada and Ariyon Bakare round out the company, whose relationships are at best marginally developed. The time is ...

Globe goes dark for Earth Hour

Earth Hour 2017 is on March 25 when some of the world's best landmarks will remain dark to show support for action on Climate Change. "Especially now that we ...

U.S. lawmakers discussing future of International Space Station

As Soloman explained to BBC Radio , researchers at NASA responded that they were aware of the error, but thought it had only been happening once or twice a ye...

New Nokia Phones to Launch in 120 Markets in Q2 2017

HMD Owned Nokia announced the skew of Nokia-branded devices at MWC 2017 including the first set of Android-powered Nokia smartphones with Nokia 3, Nokia 5 a...

Cook County to Participate in Earth Hour

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COMMENT: Lights out movement celebrates 10 years of progress on climate change

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'Life' Shows The Search For Alien Beings Can Be Dangerous

For this reason and its converse, forward contamination - in which humans bring something unsafe to another planet - NASA has its own office of planetary prote...

Earth Hour marks 10 years of starting conversations about conservation

Earth Hour was initially launched in 2007 as a global movement of solidarity for climate action. Renfrewshire News is switching off our website on Saturday a...

Australia braces for Cyclone Debbie

Debbie formed east of Queensland on Friday evening (Eastern time) and is now moving slowly southward. Debbie is now located in a region of weak vertical wind sh...

Gonzaga thumps Xavier, advances to Final Four

Gonzaga takes more pride in its defense more than most other teams in the country. Nigel Williams-Goss scored 23 points while orchestrating Gonzaga's effici...

Basketball coach Geno Auriemma's body language rant goes viral 12 months later

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Hoop royalty meet in Memphis for Sweet 16

T.J. Leaf. Malik Monk . He filled up the stat sheet against Arkansas, posting 15 points, eight rebounds , five assists and five steals . With 6:49 remainin...

Should 18 years be the limit for Supreme Court justices?

Schumer's Thursday announcement came after Gorsuch completed more than 20 hours of grilling at the hands of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "[Gorsuch] is some...

The World Prepares For Earth Hour 2017

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Call of Duty WW2 Promotional Images Emerge - Rumour

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The Activision Blizzard, Inc. (ATVI) Receives "Outperform" Rating from Macquarie

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Psyonix isn't on board with online Rocket League gambling

The biggest new feature from the studio in this update is a free mode called Dropshot that once again remixes how players will slam their vehicles around a ...