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Kenya floods: tourists evacuated from Maasai Mara after river bursts banks
Scores of tourists have been evacuated by air from Kenya's Maasai Mara national reserve after more than a dozen hotels, lodges and camps...
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'Wallet-bursting' housing costs have some Torontonians ditching the city for cheaper pastures
Mauro Quattrochi is facing a decision shared by many in Toronto: commit to a “wallet-bursting life in the city, or a car-bound, almost-as-expensive life outside it?” Quattrochi, an engineer living in downtown Toronto, says the mortgage cost on his condominium townhouse will skyrocket upon renewal next year. “We're staring down the barrel of an economic gun,” Quattrochi told CTV News Toronto. He wants to start a family with his partner, “but with the costs of food, childcare, and general...
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Astrophysics research advances understanding of how gamma-ray bursts produce light
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of gamma radiation, typically generating more energy in a few seconds than the sun will produce over its ten-billion-year lifetime. These transient phenomena present one of the most challenging puzzles in astrophysics, dating back to their accidental discovery in 1967 by a nuclear surveillance satellite.