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2018 Senior Winner, Ruben Rengel, performing with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra   https://youtu.be/yi_SlQQKc3Y User: The Sphinx Organization - Source: YouTube

Greeks rally against use of 'Macedonia' in name dispute with Skopje   Some minor scuffles erupted between the protesters and anarchists who had organised a counter-demonstration, prompting police to intervene with tear gas. The rally drew members...

South Korea hospital fire kills at least 37 in Miryang     https://youtu.be/ORl8A8UE0Dg At least 37 people have been killed and more than 70 injured in a fire at a hospital in South Korea.   The blaze is thought to...

Kim, Trump sign agreement at summit   The document signed in Singapore could mark a breakthrough, with N Korea's Kim Jong-un saying, "The world would see a major change" after his summit with US President Donald...

Tungsten brings invoicing into the digital age   Author: Richard Hurwitz, CEO, Tungsten Network   As even the smallest firms embrace global trade and e-commerce, Tungsten Network offers the back-end systems needed to ensure efficient, safe payments.   In a...

Hackers attacking US and European energy firms could sabotage power grids   Cybersecurity firm Symantec says ‘Dragonfly’ group has been investigating and penetrating energy facilities in US, Turkey and Switzerland. A hacking campaign is targeting the energy...

Venezuela condemns US senator who says world would back a coup   Venezuela's foreign minister says Washington wants to replace Maduro with a right-wing dictator like those who ruled regional countries with an iron fist in...

Right-wing candidate Duque wins Colombian presidential election   Ivan Duque becomes Colombia's youngest president in Sunday's run-off election, beating leftist Gustavo Petro following a campaign fought largely over the future of the government's peace deal with...

Israel's relentless war on EU humanitarian aid to Palestine Ylenia Gostoli   Women from the Palestinian village of Jubbet adh Dhib are fighting for basic amenities like electricity. Their struggle is part of a bigger tug-of-war, between...

Firefighters struggle to contain Greece wildfires   Greece has pleaded for assistance from European neighbours to help battle wildfires, including a blaze ravaging a forest near Athens. The army was called in to assist firefighters around Kalamos,...

Iran reiterates support for Syria in face of 'foreign aggression' Saeed Kamali Dehghan Iran correspondent   Senior aide to Iranian supreme leader visits eastern Ghouta and meets Bashar al-Assad. Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior Iranian foreign policy official,...

Mass Murder   Texas church shooting victims include pastor's daughter, young children By Kaitlyn Schallhorn | Fox News Texas mass shooting victims: What we know At least 26 churchgoers were killed when a gunman opened fire...

How Culture Shapes Human Evolution Kevin Laland ST. ANDREWS – Is there an evolutionary explanation for humanity’s greatest successes – technology, science, and the arts – with roots that can be traced back to animal behavior?...

Bitcoin price soars above $5,000 to record high  Julia Kollewe Rising price of the cryptocurrency, now worth four times as much as an ounce of gold, has led to warnings of a bubble. The price of bitcoin...

Major fire breaks out at hospital in Istanbul, Turkey, patients evacuated     PATIENTS, some wheeled out in their sick beds, have been evacuated after a huge fire broke out in an Istanbul hospital. A HUGE fire has...

Top 200 universities in the world 2018 https://youtu.be/3h6gtgaUK6U   World University Rank 2018 World University Rank 2017 University Country/Region 1 1 University of Oxford United Kingdom 2 4 University of Cambridge United Kingdom =3 2 California Institute of Technology United States =3 3 Stanford University United States 5 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 6 6 Harvard University United States 7 7 Princeton University United States 8 8 Imperial College...

Avengers: Infinity War Is the Weimar Stage of Superhero Movies By Kyle Smith This is superpower hyperinflation. Here’s the problem with Avengers: Infinity War: too much superpower. Thor gets zapped by the energy of an entire star...

London Tube terror attack injures 22   UK police and London ambulance services are responding to the incident at Parsons Green station, in the capital's southwest. Officials have declared it a terrorist incident, saying it was...

Legal Marijuana 101: How To Buy Cannabis Online   Marijuana has not yet been accepted by everyone, but it’s well on its way to total acceptance. Several people support both its recreational and medicinal uses, and,...

New species of dinosaur dubbed the 'amazing dragon' discovered in China   Paleontologists have discovered the fossils of a new species of dinosaur in northwestern China. The discovery of Lingwulong shenqi, shows there was an early member...

Artificial intelligence is helping the fight against cancer   Evaxion Biotech's machine learning technique is creating cancer immunotherapies that are personalised down to the genetic level.   https://youtu.be/hF1p-x2LHAU   Transcript We are closer than ever before to understanding the human body...

A glimpse of Homs' lost cultural heritage in an Istanbul gallery Melis Alemdar   Since 2011, Homs has become famous around the globe as a symbol of the Syrian uprising. The "Echoes of Homs" exhibition offers a...

Six candidates approved to contest Turkey's presidential election   Ankara has confirmed six candidates who will stand in the presidential election on June 24, as the nation heads to the polls to elect both their new...

Trump faces backlash from Republicans after calling Putin 'an ally'   US President Donald Trump is facing a wave of criticism over his meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin, after he publicly accepted Putin's word that Russia...