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Two satellites were involved in a near miss over Pennsylvania on Wednesday night, passing about 500 miles (800km) above the Earth's surface.
The two satellites are defunct, but are still travelling at approximately 33,000 mph (53,000 kmph) in opposite orbits in space.
LeoLabs predicted on Wednesday that the satellites, an old NASA telescope known as
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Write comment (100 Comments)Britain has taken over command from the United States of a maritime security mission in the Gulf to protect global shipping from the threat of attack by Iran.
Royal Navy Commodore James Parkin took charge of the seven-nation coalition on Thursday from US Rear Admiral Alvin Holsey at a ceremony at a US naval base in Bahrain.
The move comes as France
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Write comment (95 Comments)Around 200 British nationals remain stranded in the Chinese city at the epicentre of the escalating coronavirus outbreak due to delays to a planned evacuation flight organised by the UK government.
The Foreign Office had expected to have started flying back Britons still stuck in Wuhan in the province of Hubei, however the plane arranged to bring
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Write comment (94 Comments)The wife of Kobe Bryant says she has been left "completely devastated" by the death of the NBA legend and their teenage daughter in a helicopter crash.
LA Lakers hero Bryant and 13-year-old Gianna were among nine people who died when the aircraft they were travelling in came down amid thick cloud over the city of Calabasas in California on Sunday.
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Facebook has been given the thumbs-down by Wall Street - despite better-than-expected user numbers - as costs surged and revenue growth slowed.
Shares fell 6% after it reported a 34% rise in costs and expenses to $12.2bn (£9.2bn) in the final quarter of 2019 compared with the same period a year earlier - eating into profit margins.
The social
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Write comment (97 Comments)The White House is claiming that "significant amounts of classified information" in John Bolton's new book must be removed before it can be published.
A letter from the National Security Council (NSC) to Mr Bolton's lawyer, Charles Cooper, said some of the material in the manuscript was believed to be top secret and needs to be deleted before it
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