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Severe thunderstorm watch issued for 11 states; one of season’s broadest, sweeping Northeast and Mid-Atlantic until 8 pm SaturdayThe National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch 607 until 8:00 p.m. EDT, impacting eleven states across the Northeast a...- In UK, tourists discover darker side of Oxford and Cambridge"This is not the standard walking tour," warned guide and student Claire McCann, before leading her group onto the cobbled streets of Oxfor...
- From Mars to metaverse: How Elon Musk is building a sci-fi worldFrom mars to the metaverse, tech moguls are forging a new kind of capitalism: an extreme, extraterrestrial version.
- Change names for a fee, not for freeEven though she is no imperialist-racist like Cecil Rhodes, after whom the coveted Rhodes scholarship is named, Thao, graduate of Plekhanov...
- Four Indian-Americans among 32 students chosen as Rhodes Scholars from USAmerican Secretary of the Rhodes Trust Elliot Gerson announced the names of the 32 Americans chosen as Rhodes Scholars representing the US ...
- Oxford college agrees to remove statue of Cecil RhodesCampaigners had also demanded changes to the Rhodes scholarship.
- Bengaluru law student wins Rhodes scholarshipVanshaj Ravi Jain was selected by a panel chaired by industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, with Rohan Murty as one of its members.
- Ghanaians want university statue of 'racist' Mahatma Gandhi pulled downThe opposition centres around their belief that Gandhi was "inherently racist" for his depiction of native black Africans as "kaffir".
- Rohith Vemula suicide and JNU row: New flashpoints in campus politicsABVP says there is an "anti-national conspiracy" brewing, and that they would stop any action against the "sovereignty and integrity of the...
- The rise and fall of a mining company that tried to buy HarrodsThe company, whose businesses spanned gold mining, hotels, later focused its efforts on platinum and is the world's third-largest producer ...
- Why De Beers lab makes diamonds it will never sellThe aim is to create new gems that can fool the detection machines so that the company will have a sense of what it will be up against from...
- Why De Beers lab near London makes diamonds it will never sellThe company’s Element Six unit, named for the carbon atom’s rank on the periodic table, makes gems that are as perfect as any found at Tiff...
- Why De Beers lab near London makes diamonds it will never sellScientists at De Beers can make near- flawless diamonds in a lab, but they will never sell you one.
- De Beers fighting to restore monopoly; challenges lie aheadSince its inception, De Beers has survived two World Wars, the Great Depression, the break-up of the USSR and the end of apartheid in South...
- Diamond houses keep fingers crossed after change of guard at De BeersThe buyers quietly pick the boxes and take flights back to Mumbai or Antwerp, where the stones are cut and polished by skilled craftsmen.
- Greed has its limitsWhatever Gordon Gecko might say: Greed isn't all that good.
- River sutra: The mighty ZambeziThe mighty Zambezi, 2700 km long, is as magnificent as when Dr Livingstone saw it for the first time, but the town around it has seen bette...
- Page 3 by the seaThe first thing that strikes you about Brighton - on England’s south coast - are the happy colours that suffuse its landscape.
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