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Apollo 11 astronauts returning to launch pad 50 years later
Cape Canaveral, Jul 16 (AP/UNB) — Apollo 11's astronauts are returning to the exact spot from where they flew to the moon 50 years ago.
Huawei announces 3.1-bln-USD investment plan in Italy
Rome, July 16 (Xinhua/UNB) -- Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies will invest 3.1 billion U.S. dollars over the next three years in Italy, local media reported on Monday.
Facebook's new currency plan under scrutiny in Congress
Washington, Jul 16 (AP/UNB) — Facebook's ambitious plan to create a financial eco-system based on a digital currency faces questions from lawmakers, as it's shadowed by negative comments from President Donald Trump, his treasury secretary and the head of the Federal Reserve.
Protests spark over construction of telescope in Hawaii
Mauna Kea, Jul 16 (AP/UNB) — Singing, chanting and lying on the ground in the road, hundreds of people demonstrated on Monday against the construction of a giant telescope on a mountaintop that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred.
Banglalink Ennovators 3.0 kicks off
Dhaka, Jul 15 (UNB)- Banglalink, one of the leading digital communications service providers of the country has launched the third edition of “Banglalink Ennovators”, a completion for innovative youngsters aspiring to become successful future professionals.
Hawaii activists get ready for start of work on telescope
Mauna Kea, Jul 15 (AP/UNB) — Hundreds of demonstrators are gathered at the base of Hawaii's tallest mountain to protest the construction of a giant telescope on land that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred.
Death of British YouTuber raises fears over e-scooter safety
London, Jul 15 (AP/UNB) — The death of a British YouTuber in an electric scooter accident has raised concerns about the safety of the increasingly popular vehicles.
Apollo 11 moon landing had thousands working behind scenes
Cape Canaveral, Jul 15 (AP/UNB) — It took 400,000 people to put Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon a half-century ago.
India aborts moon mission launch, citing technical glitch
India, July 15 (AP/UNB) — India aborted the launch on Monday of a spacecraft intended to land on the far side of the moon less than an hour before liftoff.
Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on another world
Cape Canaveral, Jul 13(AP/UNB) — A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, uniting people around the globe in a way not seen before or since.