Scientists want to send 335 million sperm and egg samples to the moon
It would take over six times more rockets to transport the samples than it took to build the International Space Station.
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New WTO boss on U.S. ties and addressing the COVID crisis
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala "humbled" to be 1st woman and 1st African to head the organization, but she's focused on "many challenges" amid trade disputes and a pandemic.
Gunmen attack school and kidnap 30 students in Nigeria
Several staff at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization were also abducted, an official said.
COVID kills Brazilians waiting for ICU beds as leader rejects lockdown
The many people "resisting the facts... could be next to step inside the hospital and will want beds. But there won't be one," warns one doctor.
As Bitcoin's price skyrockets, so does its carbon footprint
The energy-hogging digital currency is on track to consume as much electricity as all of the data centers around the world.
COVID-19 is never going to end, experts say
COVID is poised to become an endemic disease — one that is always a part of our environment, no matter what we do
Holocaust survivors reunited after 82 years
One fled to China, the other, Chile. Neither knew the other was alive – until now.
COVID caused millions to lose access to birth control, U.N. estimates
An estimated 12 million women were "unable to access family planning services as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic," resulting in 1.4 million unplanned pregnancies.
Survivor recalls Japan earthquake hitting his school 10 years later
CBS News' Lucy Craft lost contact with her son Kohei for days when the 2011 earthquake and tsunami ravaged the region where he was going to school.
Tokyo Olympics chief denies decision made to ban foreign fans
2 days after officials told media outlets spectators from outside Japan wouldn't be allowed amid concerns over COVID-19, the new Olympics boss says it's still being considered.
Prince William says U.K. royals "very much not a racist family"
Commenting during a visit to a school in east London, William added that he had not spoken to his brother Harry since the interview, but said "I will do."
China set to revamp Hong Kong's electoral system
Beijing says changes will "improve" the city's political system, but one pro-democracy politician says it will mean "full-on assimilation by the Chinese government."
Japanese city wiped out by the tsunami is rebuilt, but not healed
"There's collective grief, and that is one of those things you don't snap out of," a resident of Rikuzen-Takata says. "When everyone is sad together, it's intense."
U.N. unites to condemn Myanmar's junta, but the killings continue
China and Russia back Security Council statement in first sign of international unity over bloody crackdown by Myanmar's military rulers, but its impact "may be limited."
Border apprehensions spike as U.S. struggles to house migrant children
The U.S. took into custody more than 9,400 unaccompanied minors along the southern border in February — a 21-month high.
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