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20 February 2017 • 12:35 AMT
Amazon announces plan to create 5,000 jobs in UK this year

“Amazon UK announced plans to create 5,000 full-time jobs this year, taking the company’s total UK workforce to over 24,000,” a statement said.

20 February 2017 • 12:15 AMT
Samsung Galaxy Book tablet teased in Windows 10 app

An application has popped up in the Windows Store which suggests Samsung is working on a Windows 10 PC called the Samsung Galaxy Book.

20 February 2017 • 12:02 AMT
Defense chief Mattis says U.S. has no plan to seize Iraqi oil

Under the president’s deadline, Mattis has just a week to send Trump a strategy to accelerate the fight and defeat the Islamic State group.

20 February 2017 • 11:55 AMT
Syria army escalates bombing campaign near Damascus

Regime forces escalated their bombing of the edges of Damascus, according to the Observatory for Human Rights and activists on the ground.

20 February 2017 • 10:55 AMT
Nirvana’s top 20 songs revealed on day of Kurt Cobain’s 50th birthday

The band’s iconic frontman was born on February 20, 1967, meaning he would have celebrated his 50th birthday today.

20 February 2017 • 10:48 AMT
James Blake to support Radiohead during European tour

It has now been announced that James Blake will open for the band’s Italian gigs in Florence and Milan during June.

20 February 2017 • 10:36 AMT
Ex-U.S. Federal Reserve chair: The eurozone isn’t working

He suggests the inequality is largely down to a north/south geographical divide which means the division between the northern and southern EU countries is too big.

20 February 2017 • 10:28 AMT
Dotcom eligible for extradition to U.S., New Zealand High Court rules

The U.S. has, since 2012, been seeking the extradition of Dotcom and three co-accused in his case to face trial on 13 counts.

20 February 2017 • 10:09 AMT
Moon may be added to solar system as planet

Along with Titan and Enceladus, which orbit Saturn and Europa, and Ganymede, which orbits Jupiter, the moon has all the features of a planet.

20 February 2017 • 10:02 AMT
Pence reassures allies Trump will not abandon EU, NATO

Upon arrival in Brussels, Pence said he looked “very much forward” to his meetings with EU and NATO chief officials.

20 February 2017 • 09:59 AMT
The Kills share VR video for new single “Whirling Eye”

You can fully immerse yourself by donning a VR headset, or use your computer mouse to navigate around the unique locations.

20 February 2017 • 09:52 AMT
300 African migrants cross into Spain in second wave in three days

Eleven people were hospitalised after the jump over the 6-metre, barbed-wire fencing surrounding the North African enclave.

20 February 2017 • 09:50 AMT
Rag’n’Bone Man scores fastest-selling male debut album of decade

The Brighton soul singer-songwriter managed this record having sold 117,000 copies across physical, download and streaming.

20 February 2017 • 09:42 AMT
House of Lords begins debating Brexit bill

Discussions in the House of Lords get underway after the lower House of Commons overwhelmingly approved the draft legislation.

20 February 2017 • 09:25 AMT
Second Talysh on the brink of fleeing Azerbaijan for Armenia

The Talysh explained that the head of the executive power of Lerik region Rovshan Bagirov forcibly took away his own land.

20 February 2017 • 09:23 AMT
Bob Dylan covers Frank Sinatra’s “My One and Only Love”

The 75-year-old singer/songwriter has now released another Sinatra cover ahead of ‘Triplicate”s release next month (March 31).

20 February 2017 • 09:20 AMT
Foo Fighters “to announce their Glastonbury 2017 headline slot”

Other rumored acts for Glastonbury 2017 include Ed Sheeran, and Depeche Mode. Glastonbury 2017 will run from 21-25 June.

20 February 2017 • 09:16 AMT
“Fifty Shades Darker” OST debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 chart

The “Fifty Shades Darker” album features 19 songs in total and is powered by its lead single “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” by Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik.

20 February 2017 • 09:08 AMT
Lana Del Rey unveils long-awaited new single “Love”

“Love” is Lana’s first song in nearly 16 months. It was reportedly recorded last April and officially registered in mid-January under the name “Young and in Love”.

20 February 2017 • 09:04 AMT
Another robot dies while exploring a Fukushima reactor

The robot’s mission was to investigate the pedestal underneath the Unit 2 nuclear reactor, where melted nuclear fuel is suspected to have fallen.

20 February 2017 • 08:59 AMT
Henrikh Mkhitaryan named Man Utd Man of the Match vs Blackburn

Although he took a while to get into the game, it was his sublime ball for Rashford that led to the equaliser following United’s shaky start.

20 February 2017 • 08:54 AMT
Xiaomi to announce its “Pinecone” mobile chipset Feb 28

Rumors going as far back as October are pointing to a Mi 5c aka “Meri” as the first device to carry this chip.

20 February 2017 • 08:45 AMT
World’s first color-changing hair dye reacts to your environment

This isn’t one of those far-off projects that will take many years to reach shelves — there’s already production-oriented testing underway.

20 February 2017 • 08:38 AMT
SpaceX successfully blasts off from NASA’s historic launch pad

The pad was last used for the final space shuttle launch in 2011. In 2014, SpaceX signed a 20-year lease and has spent millions on remodeling.

20 February 2017 • 08:22 AMT
Event Horizon Telescope to take the first picture of black hole

While scientists believe it has a mass of around four million suns, it also only measures around 20 million km or so across.

20 February 2017 • 08:20 AMT
55 ceasefire violations by Azerbaijan registered over weekend

The Karabakh Defense Army forces refrained from retalating to continue controlling the the situation on the contact line.

20 February 2017 • 08:10 AMT
Apple “buys Israeli AI-based face recognition startup”

Realface has developed a facial recognition software aiming to make passwords redundant when accessing mobile devices or PCs.

20 February 2017 • 08:05 AMT
Report predicts 32 most powerful economies of the world by 2050

“The long view: how will the global economic order change by 2050?” ranked 32 countries by their projected global GDP by purchasing power parity.

20 February 2017 • 07:59 AMT
Amazon lowers its free shipping threshold

Just a year after it hiked its free shipping minimum to $49, the online shopping giant has lowered that threshold back to $35.

20 February 2017 • 07:40 AMT
Azerbaijan’s arms imports 20 times higher than Armenia’s in 2012-2016

The five biggest exporters — the U.S., Russia, China, France and Germany — together accounted for 74% of the total volume of arms exports.