By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the earliest-known galaxy, one that is surprisingly bright and big considering it formed during the universe's infancy - at only 2% its current age.
Webb, which by peering across vast cosmic distances is looking way back in time, observed the galaxy as it existed about 290 million years after the Big Bang event that initiated the universe roughly 13.8... (continue reading...)
By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday laid out a three-phase ceasefire proposal from Israel to Palestinian Islamist group Hamas to end the war in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands and caused a humanitarian crisis.
The offer calls for a ceasefire, the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and the reconstruction of Gaza.
A senior U.S. official said the... (continue reading...)
By Saadeq Ahmed
TORONTO (Reuters) - Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton died on Friday aged 74 after he was assaulted by another inmate in a maximum-security prison earlier this month, prison authorities said.
One of Canada's most infamous mass murderers, Pickton was convicted in 2007 of killing drug addicts and prostitutes and butchering their remains at his pig farm in the Pacific province of British Columbia.
... (continue reading...)By Katie Paul
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Meta said on Friday its flagship app Facebook is attracting its highest number of young adults in three years, as it tries to shake the platform's reputation as a hangout for an older generation.
The social media network said that more than 40 million U.S. and Canadian adults aged 18 to 29 now check Facebook daily, in Meta's first-ever release of such demographic information. Facebook, whose founder Mark... (continue reading...)
CAIRO (Reuters) - Iraq welcomed a unanimous decision by the United Nations Security Council on Friday to terminate the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), set up after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraq's state news agency said.
The mission, based in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, had a wide mandate to help develop Iraqi institutions, support political dialogue and elections, and promote human rights.
Iraq requested in May... (continue reading...)
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