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LONDON (Reuters) - “Shall we all just kill ourselves?” It was an odd title for a comedy night, but British stand-up Carl Donnelly turned out to have chosen an environmental theme with impeccable timing. With temperature records tumbling daily in last week…

ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/Getty Images Egan Bernal has the 2019 Tour de France title wrapped up ahead of the 21st and final stage in Paris on Sunday. A bunch sprint where the general classification leader is traditionally unchallenged, will end at the Champs-…

Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal finished Saturdays penultimate stage of the Tour de France in the yellow jersey, meaning that he is all but guaranteed to be crowned the winner of this years raceprovided he crosses the finish line in Paris on Sunday. Bernals v…

PARIS — France is pushing ahead with a landmark tax on tech giants like Google and Facebook — despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of retaliatory tariffs on French wine. After Trump slammed the “foolishness” of the tax in a tweet Friday and promised…

Egan Bernal was poised to become the first Colombian to win the Tour de France when he retained the overall lead after Saturday's 20th stage, a 59-km ride from Albertville. The Team Ineos rider, 22, finished the stage won by 2014 champion Vicenzo Nibali of I…

Delta Aquariid meteor shower will light up the night sky Summer nights are shorter but a great time to check out meteor showers, and the Delta Aquariid shower peaks Sunday night. Though it's a fairly average meteor shower, you can still see up to 20 meteors …

Our selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week. Image copyrightPhilippe Wojazer / ReutersImage caption Greta Thunberg (second from right) along with other Swedish and French environmental activists from the You…

Friday, July 26th 2019, 5:23 pm - The thigh bone belonged to a sauropod, the largest class of dinosaurs. Archaeologists in southwestern France have unearthed a massive dinosaur bone measuring some two metres in length -- longer than most human beings are tal…

An external investigator says prosecutors did not break any rules when they extradited Ottawa academic Hassan Diab to France in 2014. The report by Murray Segal, the former deputy attorney general of Ontario, was released on Friday by the Department of Justi…

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