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What the French history of the leisurely lunch break can teach us about separating work from rest. (Image credit: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Incident is first significant accident involving a Chinese military aircraft to be officially confirmed in more than a year

An analysis of dust and pebbles from the asteroid Ryugu shows that it contains amino acids that are considered the precursors of life, supporting a theory that solar-system rocks crashing into Earth helped jump-start primordial life-forms.

On a sun-blasted hillside in southeast Turkey, the world’s oldest known religious sanctuary is slowly giving up its secrets. “When we open a new trench, we never know what to expect,” said Lee Clare of the German Archaeology Institute, who

With the spread of monkeypox across the world coming hot on the heels of Covid-19, there are fears that increasing outbreaks of diseases that jump from animals to humans could spark another pandemic. While such diseases — called zoonoses —

The company, Freeport LNG, said no one was injured. The shutdown comes at a time when global demand for LNG is high because many nations are trying to wean themselves off Russian gas. (Image credit: Marie D. De Jesús/AP)

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were “holding on” in the flashpoint eastern city of Severodonetsk where intense street battles with Russian troops could determine the fate of the Donbas region. Moscow has concentrated its firepower on the industrial city,

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Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said the death sentences handed to two Britons in Ukraine are “an egregious breach of the Geneva Convention”.