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Tokyo 2020: Olympics '100%' going ahead - Games president Seiko Hashimoto 2 hours ago Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto is "100%" certain the Olympics will go ahead, but warned the Games "must be prepared" to proceed without spectators in the event of a coronavirus outbreak. ...

FDA approves obesity drug that helped people cut weight 15% June 04, 2021 Regulators on Friday said a new version of a popular diabetes medicine could be sold as a weight-loss drug in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration approved Wegovy, a higher-dose version of Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug se...

Astronaut Alexander Gerst's full shot of the "fabulous" South Island of New Zealand.

Queenstown, New Zealand

World’s soils ‘under great pressure’, says UN pollution report Fri 4 Jun 2021 The world’s soils, which provide 95% of humanity’s food, are “under great pressure”, according to a UN report on soil pollution. Soils are also the largest active store of carbon, after the oceans, and therefore crucial i...

UK strikes trade deal with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein Fri 4 Jun 2021 A trade deal struck with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein with provisions for digital paperwork to cut down the time and costs of post-Brexit border bureaucracy has been championed by the international trade secretary, Liz...

Nooksack Indians near Lynden, Washington State, 1900 ...