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An Italian DJ claims he suffered a number of injuries following an alleged altercation with MMA fighter Conor McGregor.

Rudy Giuliani used a filter to make himself look like Abraham Lincoln in an odd attack on Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on the reaction the ad is receiving.

People have long been fascinated with photography as it freezes a special moment in time that evokes feelings and memories which is why people have also been looking for that smartphone that allows them to take the best images. Enter the vivo X70 , the device that lets users master the Xceptional with its amazing camera technology co-engineered with leading German optics company, ZEISS. Capture the best images no matter the situation The vivo X70 combines flagship performance and photography technology in one sleek package. With its Ultra-Sensing Gimbal Camera together with the VIS 5-Axis Ultra Stable Video that reduces frame crop, users can take photos and videos even when ...

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WASHINGTON, United States - A US medical team has succeeded in temporarily attaching a pig's kidney to a person, a transplant breakthrough hailed as a "potential miracle" by the surgeon who led the procedure. The surgery, carried out on September 25, involved a genetically modified donor animal and a brain dead patient on a ventilator whose family had given permission for the two-day experiment, for the sake of advancing science. "It did what it's supposed to do, which is remove waste and make urine," Robert Montgomery, director of the transplant institute at New York University (NYU) Langone, told AFP in an interview. Critically, the organ was able to reduce the level of th...

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With Texas Republicans bolstering their congressional majorities in new maps they approved this week, Senate Republicans in Washington, DC, on Wednesday blocked yet another voting rights bill that would crack down on those kinds of gerrymanders.

MANILA, Philippines --- Cooler will soon prevail with the coming onset of the northeast monsoon or "amihan", the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Thursday. Pagasa weather specialist Aldczar Aurelio said the country's weather system is currently in transition, which will later pave the way for the northeast monsoon. The cold breeze from northeast wind flow has already reached Taiwan, he said. Meantime, no weather disturbance is currently being monitored within the country. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms. gsg...

Keep on reading: Pagasa: Fair weather on Thursday; cooler days coming

A new report published Wednesday warns of the severe impact of climate change on human health, and says the prognosis is only getting worse.

      The new Netflix animated series "Maya and the Three" has allowed its top voice actor, Zoe Saldaa, to reconnect with her Latin roots as well as her birth name. The show, which begins streaming on Friday, gathers together mythologies from Latin American cultures to tell an epic story of four heroes who set out to defeat the gods of the underworld. At the beginning of each episode, Saldaa's name is shown with a tilde over the n. Saldaa has mostly been billed without the tilde in projects like "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Avengers: Endgame" but now she wants to move forward with it written correctly. "It happened so young when my name was strip...

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    Renaming Facebook Inc is unlikely to enable the tech giant to distance itself from regulatory and public scrutiny around the potential harms caused by its social media apps, marketing and branding experts told Reuters. Tech publication The Verge reported on Tuesday that the California-based firm is planning to change its corporate branding to reflect that as well as owning the social media platform that made it a global household name, it also now includes other thriving businesses like Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus. The company declined to comment regarding the report on the possible rebranding. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment for t...

Keep on reading: Changing Facebook’s name will not deter lawmaker or regulatory scrutiny, experts say

    WASHINGTON - The Biden administration on Wednesday outlined its plan to vaccinate millions of U.S. children ages 5 to 11 as soon as the COVID-19 shot is authorized for them, readying doses and preparing locations ahead of the busy holiday season. Unlike the mass vaccination centers used in the initial COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the White House said it is working to set up clinics in more than 100 children's hospital systems nationwide as well as doctor's offices, pharmacies and potentially schools. If Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE's vaccine wins wider authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the plan aims to ensure quick and equitable distributi...

Keep on reading: U.S. readies plan to vaccinate kids ages 5-11 against COVID-19

    Zuckerverse. Timesuck. Faceplant. They're just a few of the suggestions being bandied around online following reports that Facebook plans to rebrand itself with a new group name. The company refused to comment on rumor or speculation, of course, but the Twitterati had no problem. The debate careered from sensible to screwball to strange. "Meta" was one of the more sober trending suggestions, referring to Facebook's reported desire to assume a name that focuses on the metaverse, a virtual environment where users can hang out.   Bookface, Facegram, Facetagram, FreeFace, FreeTalk, World Changer. On the wilder side, Twitter user Dave Pell dr...

Keep on reading: Enter the Zuckerverse? Social media churns with new names for Facebook

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) got into a contentious exchange with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) over former President Trump's lies about the 2020 election at a rules committee hearing.

    UNITED NATIONS - The United States has offered to meet North Korea without preconditions and made clear that Washington has no hostile intent toward Pyongyang, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said on Wednesday as the Security Council met over North Korea's latest missile launch. North Korea - formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) - has long accused the United States of having a hostile policy toward the Asian state and asserted that it has the right to develop weapons for self-defense. "The DPRK must abide by the Security Council resolutions and it is time to engage in sustained and substantive...

Keep on reading: U.S. to North Korea: it’s time for sustained, substantive talks

  WASHINGTON - The United States sees the decision by Southeast Asian nations to exclude Myanmar's leader from a regional summit as very significant but more needs to be done to address the challenges the country is facing after the military coup there, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) decided last week to invite a non-political representative from Myanmar to its Oct. 26-28 summits, snubbing military chief Min Aung Hlaing. "This reflects a very significant step," Edgard Kagan, senior director for East Asia and Oceania at the White House National Security Council, told an event at Washington's Center f...

Keep on reading: ASEAN summit without Myanmar leader significant, but not enough – U.S.

UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council called Wednesday for "de-escalation" in Yemen in a unanimously adopted statement to counter "the growing risk of large-scale famine" in the country. The 15 council members "stressed the need for de-escalation by all," demanded an immediate nationwide ceasefire, and called for an end to the escalation by Huthis in the strategic city of Marib. They also "condemned the recruitment and use of children, and sexual violence, in conflict," according to a statement. "The members of the Security Council expressed grave concern for the dire humanitarian situation, including prolonged starvation and the growing risk of large-scale famine," the ...

Keep on reading: UN Security Council calls for de-escalation of violence in Yemen

A drone attack targeted US troops at the US base at At-Tanf in Syria, close to the border with Jordan, on Wednesday, according to a US defense official.

WASHINGTON -- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday authorized using a so-called "mix and match" strategy for people who require a booster shot of a Covid vaccine after their primary series. "The FDA has determined that the known and potential benefits of the use of a single heterologous booster dose outweigh the known and potential risks of their use in eligible populations," the agency said in a statement. The Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are authorized in the United States. A single dose of any of them may now be used following completion of primary vaccination with a different Covid vaccine. According to the new decision, peopl...

Keep on reading: US authorizes ‘mix and match’ Covid vaccine boosters

VATICAN CITY---It's so secular, clicking to order food, clicking to buy shoes or clicking to reserve tickets. Pope Francis wants you to click to pray. The Click to Pray app is being relaunched, the Vatican said on Tuesday, permitting more Catholic faithful to "connect your prayer with the world." Francis, 84, is no stranger to social media---he has a whopping 19 million Twitter followers and 8.3 million on Instagram and a high tolerance for selfies---and has acknowledged that social networks can be an "opportunity to promote encounter with others." Since it first appeared in 2016, the social media app has been downloaded by more than 2.5 million people, offering daily pra...

Keep on reading: Log in to God: Vatican’s Click to Pray app back

  MOSCOW -- The World Health Organization (WHO) is still assessing the Russia-designed Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, according to an update on the WHO's website on Wednesday. "As with other candidate vaccines, WHO continues to assess Sputnik V vaccines from different manufacturing sites and will publish decisions on their EUL (Emergency Use Listing) status when all the data are available and the review is concluded," WHO said in emailed comments to Reuters. It said it has restarted the assessment process for the Russian vaccine and that it is awaiting the "completion of rolling submission." The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which promotes Spu...

Keep on reading: WHO says it continues to assess Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine