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- Scientists find Earth’s oldest asteroid crater from 2.229 BILLION years ago which ‘may have ended an ice age’
An innocuous crater in Yarrabubba, Western Australia has been identified as the oldest known extraterrestrial impact site on Earth, with researchers calculating that the natural structure dates back a whopping 2.229 billion years.Jan 22, 2020 17:12World News - Victim of PC culture or clever PR stunt? KFC apologizes over ad featuring boys staring at woman’s breastsKFC has been forced to apologize for airing an ad showing two young boys gawking at a woman’s semi-exposed breasts after a local group complained that it was “sexist” and the video went viral.Jan 21, 2020 20:59World News
- In contention for 1st Grand Slam title: Russia’s Medvedev advances to second round of Australian Open 2020Russian tennis ace Daniil Medvedev has opened his Australian Open campaign in style beating US player Frances Tiafoe in four exhaustive sets 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 to make it into the second round of the season-opening major.Jan 21, 2020 11:06Sport News
- WATCH Monstrous dust storms blocking out the Sun as Australia’s weather woes continueAs if sprawling bushfires and violent hailstorms weren’t enough, to add insult to injury, vast dust storms engulfed large swathes of New South Wales in Australia to close out a weekend of intense weather.Jan 21, 2020 10:15World News
- WATCH: Car windows SMASHED by epic hailstones as storms lash eastern AustraliaEastern Australia, still struggling with the bushfires crisis, was hit by intense weather on Monday which left two people injured in a lightning strike and saw scores of cars damaged by enormous hailstones.Jan 20, 2020 14:03World News
- VIDEOS capture frolicking cows and saturated Sydney as rain brings relief to Australia’s scorched south-eastWhen it rains it pours. After weeks of punishing drought, bushfire-plagued south-eastern Australia has been hit by torrential rain, prompting a flood of excitement among Australians and actual floods in Sydney.Jan 17, 2020 14:38World News
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