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The surgical team examines the pig kidney for any signs of hyperacute rejection, as the organ was implanted outside the body to allow for observation and tissue sampling during the 54-hour study period, at NYU Langone in New York, US, in this undated handout photo. Photo: Reuters

US surgeons successfully test pig kidney transplant in human patient

For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient's immune system, a potentially major advance that could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant.

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2021, file photo taken from video footage released by Roscosmos Space Agency, actress Yulia Peresild, left, film director Klim Shipenko, center, and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov speak with the Moscow Mission Control Center from the International Space Station, ISS. Photo: Roscosmos Space Agency via AP/File

Russian filmmakers land after shoot aboard space station

A SoyA Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has landed after a 3 1/2-hour trip from the International Space Station. uz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has landed after a 3 1/2-hour trip from the International Space Station.

This image provided by the Southwest Research Institute depicts the Lucy spacecraft approaching an asteroid. It will be first space mission to explore a diverse population of small bodies known as the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Photo: SwRI via AP

NASA to launch first space probe to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids

NASA is set on Saturday to launch a first-of-its kind mission, dubbed Lucy, to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, two large clusters of space rocks that scientists believe are remnants of primordial material that formed the solar system's outer planets.

In this July 30, 2019, the social media application, Facebook is displayed on Apple's App Store. Photo: AP/File

Facebook unveils new controls for kids using its platforms

Facebook, in the aftermath of damning testimony that its platforms harm children, will be introducing several features including prompting teens to take a break using its photo sharing app Instagram, and "nudging" teens if they are repeatedly looking at the same content that's not conducive to their well-being.

Thomas Perlmann, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Committee, announces the winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT via AP

2 win medicine Nobel for showing how we react to heat, touch

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch, revelations that could lead to new ways of treating pain or even heart disease.

SpaceX capsule with world's first all-civilian orbital crew returns safely

Tom Cruise gets sneak preview from SpaceX's 1st private crew

Chinese astronauts return after 90 days aboard space station

Moroccan cave yields oldest clues about advent of human clothing

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Facebook blames "faulty configuration change" for nearly six-hour outage. Photo: Reuters

Facebook blames "faulty configuration change" for nearly six-hour outage

Facebook Inc (FB.O) blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.

Professor Ardem Patapoutian of the Department of Neuroscience at Scripps Research, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, poses in an undated photograph. Photo Courtesy: Scripps Research/Handout via Reuters

Two Americans win Medicine Nobel for work on heat and touch

American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for the discovery of receptors in the skin that sense temperature and touch and could pave the way for new pain-killers.

The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashes down in SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule off the coast of Kennedy Space Center, Florida, U.S. September 18, 2021. Photo: SpaceX/Handout via Reuters

SpaceX capsule with world's first all-civilian orbital crew returns safely

The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida's coast on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever sent into Earth orbit.

This photo provided by SpaceX shows the passengers of Inspiration4 in the Dragon capsule on their first day in space. Photo: SpaceX via AP

Tom Cruise gets sneak preview from SpaceX's 1st private crew

Tom Cruise got a sneak preview of what it's like to circle Earth in a SpaceX capsule.

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese astronauts from left, Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming wave at the Dongfeng landing site in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. Photo: Ju Zhenhua/Xinhua via AP

Chinese astronauts return after 90 days aboard space station

A trio of Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after a 90-day stay aboard their nation's first space station in China's longest mission yet.

Scientists excavate Contrebandiers Cave, where bone tools used for leather making were discovered - the oldest-known archeological evidence for clothing manufacturing by humans near Temara, Morocco in 2009. Photo: Emily Yuko Hallett/Handout via Reuters

Moroccan cave yields oldest clues about advent of human clothing

People may take the necessity and existence of clothing for granted, from shirts to pants to dresses, coats, skirts, socks, underwear, bow ties, top hats, togas, kilts and bikinis. But it all had to start somewhere.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with four private citizens onboard, lifts off in this time-exposure photo from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photo: AP

SpaceX launches 4 amateurs on private Earth-circling trip

SpaceX's first private flight streaked into orbit Wednesday night with two contest winners, a health care worker and their rich sponsor, the most ambitious leap yet in space tourism.

Photo: Reuters

Google self-driving spinoff Waymo begins testing with public in San Francisco

Alphabet's Waymo has started taking a few San Franciscans on rides in its self-driving sport utility vehicles and hopes to open the robotaxis to anyone in the city in less than the three years it took to launch in its only other market.

Tourists take pictures of a NASA sign at the Kennedy Space Center visitors complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida April 14, 2010. Photo: Reuters

NASA halts SpaceX work on lunar lander after Blue Origin suit

NASA agreed on Thursday to temporarily halt work on a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract awarded to Elon Musk's SpaceX after rival billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin sued the U.S government, an agency spokeswoman said.

FILE - This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. On Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, Photo: AP

Higher but still slim odds of asteroid Bennu slamming Earth

The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance of clobbering Earth than previously thought.

Facebook bans firm behind Pfizer, AstraZeneca smear campaign. Photo: AP

Facebook bans firm behind Pfizer, AstraZeneca smear campaign

Facebook said Tuesday that it has removed hundreds of accounts linked to a mysterious advertising agency operating out of Russia that sought to pay social media influencers to smear COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca.

Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket lifts off the launch pad at the NASA Test Flight Facility, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, in Wallops Island, Va. Photo: AP

Space station supplies launched with a pizza delivery for 7

Northrop Grumman's latest space station delivery includes pizza for seven.

FILE - In this file photo made available by NASA shows the planet Venus made with data from the Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech FILE via AP

Hot dates: 2 spacecraft to make Venus flyby

Two spacecraft are set to swoop past Venus within hours of each other this week, using the maneuver to do a little bit of bonus science on the way to their main missions at the center of our solar system.

This photo provided by ICON and NASA in August 2021 shows a proposal for the Mars Dune Alpha habitat on Mars. Photo: AP

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Women’s rights activist Rubi Khan and other women protesters breaking their fast-unto-death that lasted for 13 days after an agreement with the government in Kathmandu, on Tuesday. Photo: THT

Ruby Khan calls off hunger strike

Human rights activist Ruby Khan of Nepalgunj broke her hunger strike after an agreement was reached with the government to immediately start an investigation into the murder of Nirmala Kurmi of Banke and the disappearance of Nankunni Dhobi.

Photo: Reuters

Prophet Muhammad's birth anniversary observed

The 1,496th birth anniversary of Paigambar Muhammad was observed today with various programmes.

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The surgical team examines the pig kidney for any signs of hyperacute rejection, as the organ was implanted outside the body to allow for observation and tissue sampling during the 54-hour study period, at NYU Langone in New York, US, in this undated handout photo. Photo: Reuters

US surgeons successfully test pig kidney transplant in human patient

For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient's immune system, a potentially major advance that could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant.

A view of Ghandruk village along the Annapurna trekking trail in Kaski district, on Wednesday, May 30, 2018. Photo: RSS

Landslide disrupts Nayapul-Ghandruk road; tourists stranded

Road networks leading to Annapurna rural municipality-11, Ghandruk – the tourism destination of the district – has been disrupted due to the obstruction caused by the landslide.

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2019, file photo, Bill and Melinda Gates smile at each other during an interview in Kirkland, Wash. Photo: AP

Gates Foundation allots $120 mln for poor nations to get COVID-19 drug

The Gates Foundation will allocate up to $120 million to assist lower-income nations get an experimental COVID-19 drug being developed by US drugmaker Merck & Co Inc (MRK.N) within the battle in opposition to coronavirus, it stated on Wednesday.

(L-R) Arzu Rana Deuba, Muskan Khatun and Ambassador Randy Berry. (Photo: US Embassy)

US Embassy hands 'International Women of Courage' trophy to Muskan Khatun

US Embassy hands 'International Women of Courage' trophy to Muskan Khatun

Photo: Birendra KM

Around 100 domestic flights stalled on Wednesday

Buddha, Yeti, others suspend flights owing to bad weather condition

Minister of Foreign Affairs Narayan Khadka and Wang Yi, state councillor and minister of foreign affairs of the People’s Republic of China, held an hour-long telephone conversation Tuesday morning.

China to provide two million more doses of COVID vaccines

Minister of Foreign Affairs Narayan Khadka and Wang Yi, state councillor and minister of foreign affairs of the People’s Republic of China, held an hour-long telephone conversation Tuesday morning.

The Ministry of Women, Children, and Senior Citizens has drafted the ‘Ten-year National Action Plan for Persons with Disabilities’ to establish a just society by developing disabled-friendly governance system for achieving Sustainable Development Goals.

Govt drafts 10-year action plan for empowering differently-abled persons

The Ministry of Women, Children, and Senior Citizens has drafted the ‘Ten-year National Action Plan for Persons with Disabilities’ to establish a just society by developing disabled-friendly governance system for achieving Sustainable Development Goals.

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has directed the authorities concerned to make arrangements for immediate rescue and relief of those affected by flood, landslide, and inundation following heavy rainfall in various regions of the country.

PM Deuba directs bodies concerned to gear up rescue, relief efforts

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has directed the authorities concerned to make arrangements for immediate rescue and relief of those affected by flood, landslide, and inundation following heavy rainfall in various regions of the country.

The new statute of the CPN-UML prepared after incorporating all the inputs received from the participants of the recently held first statute convention stipulates that party members can become members of the central committee only after serving the party for 10 years.

CPN-UML prepares new party statute

The new statute of the CPN-UML prepared after incorporating all the inputs received from the participants of the recently held first statute convention stipulates that party members can become members of the central committee only after serving the party for 10 years.

Vehicular movement on the bridge over the Seti River in Dipayal was banned as the water-level in the river rose up to the bridge on Tuesday. Photo: Tekendra Deuba / THT

Three killed, 23 missing in Sudurpaschim

Three persons were killed and 23 went missing in landslides and floods triggered by incessant rainfall for the past three days in Sudurpaschim Province.

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