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  Last update: 02:54 19.04.2019

  02:54 19.04.2019

  Environment

  New Climate Models Predict Earth Will Get Much Hotter, a Lot Sooner

  New climate change models developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are causing some concern among scientists, as they show a much faster pace of global warming to much higher temperatures than previous models - and scientists aren’t sure why.

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  Last update: 03:56 19.04.2019

  03:56 19.04.2019

  US

  Oh Lordy: Americans Are Less Religious Now Than Ever Before

  With Easter and Passover just around the corner, a new survey conducted by consulting company Gallup reveals that church memberships are at an all-time low in the US.

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  Last update: 23:18 18.04.2019

  23:18 18.04.2019

  Tech

  Doctors Cure ‘Bubble Boy’ Disease Using Edited HIV Genes

  In a strange twist of fate, part of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been used to cure the so-called “bubble boy” disease, a condition in which the body develops no immune system on its own. A gene editing procedure modifies the patient’s blood stem cells with the virus and reinserts them into the bone marrow, curing the illness.

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  Last update: 22:00 18.04.2019

  22:00 18.04.2019

  Environment

  12-Foot Great White Shark Makes Unusual Appearance Near Florida Coast (PHOTO)

  Miss Costa, a large female great white shark tagged by research company OCEARCH in September 2016, recently shocked monitors when the sub-adult fish made a rare appearance in Gulf waters near the Florida coast.

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  Last update: 01:28 19.04.2019

  01:28 19.04.2019

  Society

  Smut Security: UK to Enforce Age Verification for Porn Sites This Summer

  Beginning July 15, commercial porn websites will be required, as part of the UK Digital Economy Act’s updated regulations, to block British users’ access to explicit content until their ages can be proven via a verification system.

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  Last update: 23:24 18.04.2019

  23:24 18.04.2019

  Europe

  92-Year-Old Ex-Nazi Camp Guard Accused of Helping Kill 5,000 Prisoners at Age 17

  On Thursday, a German chief prosecutor charged a 92-year-old man from Hamburg identified by the German outlet Die Welt as Bruno Dey with assisting in the murders of 5,230 Jewish prisoners during his tenure as a guard at the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.

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  Last update: 03:24 19.04.2019

  03:24 19.04.2019

  Viral

  'Lion King' Director Rob Minkoff Talks Chinese Animation

  "I'd like to see more films made in China reaching out to the world," said American director Rob Minkoff, jury president at the main competition of the 2019 Beijing International Film Festival.

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  Last update: 22:21 18.04.2019

  22:21 18.04.2019

  Europe

  Oh, the Irony: Fake Watchers Make False Claim About Sputnik's 'Fake News'

  The photograph led PolitiFact to claim that the image of “two smiling men”, who were allegedly doctored into the picture, was used to promote speculation about Muslim involvement in the Notre Dame fire.