18 h. ago Asteroid which caused panic about deadly collision with Earth is massive, Nasa says

Asteroid 2024 YR4, it appeared, was heading for Earth but more data recorded by the Webb Space Telescope has offered new information about the rocky body in the inner Solar System

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23 h. ago The Guardian view on Trump’s tariffs: a monstrous and momentous act of folly | Editorial

The US president has expelled his own country from the rules-based global trade system that America itself createdFor the world’s already embattled trading system, it is as though an asteroid has crashed into the planet, devastating everyone and everything that previously existed there. But there is this important difference. If an asteroid struck the Earth, the impact would at least have been caused by ungovernable cosmic forces. The assault on world trade, by contrast, is a completely deliberate act of choice, taken by one man and one nation.Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on every country in the world is a monstrous and momentous act of folly. Unilateral and unjustified, it was expressed on Wednesday in indefensible language in which Mr Trump described US allies as “cheaters” and “scavengers” who “looted”, “raped” and “pillaged” the US. Many of the calculations on which Mr Trump doled out his punishments are perverse, not least the exclusion of Russia from the cond...

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23 h. ago Asteroid that caused panic about deadly collision with Earth is huge, Nasa finds

Webb telescope captures first images of once-feared space object

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43 h. ago NASA's Webb telescope captures photos of the asteroid that won't hit Earth in 2032

NASA's Webb telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth's hit list

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3 d. ago I blamed long hours and caffeine for my symptoms. Then a doctor's sudden panic confirmed I'd missed deadly warning signs... and left it too late

Less than ten minutes after my CAT scan, my room in the ER was filled with a team of medical staff. Each of them had grave, somber looks on their faces. 'What's happened?' I asked.

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7 d. ago Scots tourist tells of 'screaming and panic' in Thailand earthquake as two confirmed dead

Fraser Morton, a tourist from Scotland, was caught in the 7.7 magnitude deadly earthquake in Thailand.

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