32 h. ago NASA's Mars Sample Return is dead, leaving China to retrieve signs of life from the Red Planet

NASA's Mars Sample Return is dead, leaving China to retrieve signs of life from the Red Planet  Live Science

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1 week ago Winning the Red Planet race: Returning Mars samples before China should be a top US priority, experts say

Winning the Red Planet race: Returning Mars samples before China should be a top US priority, experts say  Space

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1 week ago Hong Kong office leasing rebound lifts outlook for 2026, but rents remain under pressure

Hong Kong’s battered office sector showed cautious signs of life in 2025, supported by improved take-up in core districts and a slower pace of rental declines and –. while analysts said that trend was set to continue into 2026 – rents were unlikely to rise over the next six months. The coming year was expected to build on the market’s momentum, with stabilisation emerging as the dominant theme, analysts said. Vacancy rates in prime assets in core districts were likely to steady further, but...

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1 week ago ‘I thought of pushing wife out window’: Hong Kong fire survivors recount escape

When a Hong Kong resident surnamed Chow opened his front door at Shek Kip Mei Estate on Sunday, he was met by a dense wall of black soot. “[The smoke] was cutting my throat and nose, and my eyes won’t stop tearing,” said the man in his forties as he recounted the harrowing struggle with his wife and dogs, after a fire broke out a few doors away from his home, leaving one man dead and eight injured. As the fire erupted in a cluttered flat on the 21st floor of Mei Yue House on Sunday morning,...

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2 w. ago Long queue of customers at China snack stall to support owner, whose dead son leaves 3 kids behind

Business boomed at a street snack stall in China in a touching show of support for its owner whose son had died from cancer, leaving the man with three small children to look after. Video clips of long queues in front of a tanghulu stall near the Shandong Institute of Petroleum and Chemical Technology, in eastern China’s Shandong province, went viral online. People came to support the stall owner, surnamed Tian, whose 36-year-old son died from liver cancer this month. Tian junior was diagnosed...

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2 w. ago Long queues at China snack stall to support owner, whose dead son leaves 3 kids

Long queues at China snack stall to support owner, whose dead son leaves 3 kids  South China Morning Post

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