VIRUS TODAY: Unemployment applications in U.S. up this week The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid rose last week to 861,000 and it's evidence that layoffs are painfully high despite a steady drop in the number of confirmed coronavirus in...

EXPLAINER: What's up between Google, Facebook and Australia? For two decades, global news outlets have complained internet companies are getting rich at their expense, selling advertising linked to their reports without sharing revenue By JOE McDONALD A...

Australian media law raises questions about 'pay for clicks' Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, worries that Australian plans to make digital giants pay for journalism could set a precede...

NASA rover streaks toward a landing on Mars A NASA rover is hurtling toward a landing on Mars in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer...

In shock move, Facebook blocks news access in Australia Australia’s government has condemned Facebook over its shocking move to prevent Australians from sharing news that also blocked some government communications and commercial pages By By ROD McGUI...

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Groups ask Biden for wider environmental review of nuke work Watchdog groups want the Biden administration to reconsider a decision by a U.S. agency not to conduct a more extensive environmental review related to production of the plutonium cores used i...

NASA rover attempting most difficult Martian touchdown yet NASA's latest road trip to Mars is almost complete By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer February 17, 2021, 9:07 PM • 5 min read Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Email this article CAPE CANAVER...

Facebook blocks Australians from accessing news on platform Facebook has announced it has blocked Australians from viewing and sharing news on the platform because of proposed laws in the country to make digital giants pay for journalism By ROD McGUIRK...

Egypt: Archaeologists unearth ancient beer factory in Abydos An Egyptian antiquities official says archaeologists have unearthed what could be the world's oldest known beer factory at one of the most prominent archaeological sites of ancient Egypt By SA...