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August's supermoon first of four lunar spectacles
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — This month's supermoon is the first of four this year.
Hammerheads (the garden variety) pose a threat to earthworms
Earthworms, as we know, are garden champions, cleaning the soil by eating their weight in organic matter every day and aerating it as they wriggle around, creating tunnels to ease root growth. They also improve soil moisture, remove fungal spores and stimulate microbial activity, which benefits plant health.
Duplantis, Tebogo headline Lausanne Diamond League, 1st post-Olympic meet
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Armand Duplantis and Letsile Tebogo headline a raft of Olympic champions who will descend on Lausanne for the first Diamond League meeting since the end of the Paris Games.
'Cultural icon for the ages': Eraserheads receives Gawad Oblation from UP
MANILA, Philippines — Filipino rock band Eraserheads received the Gawad Oblation from the University of the Philippines (UP).
Taiwan test fires missiles at sensitive coastal base
Taiwan showed off its missile firepower on Tuesday, August 20, launching a battery of surface-to-air missiles in front of reporters during a visit to a sensitive test site on a remote part of the island's southeastern coast. Democratically governed Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, has complained of stepped up Chinese military activity as Beijing seeks to assert its sovereignty claims, and Taipei has been strengthening its deterrence abilities. At the Jiupeng base in Taiwan's Pingtung County, the military test fired both US-made Patriot and Taiwan-made Sky Bow III missiles into the skies as dawn broke, while a warship off the coast fired a RIM-66 Standard missile. Jiupeng is also where the government-run weapons developer National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology tests new missiles, like the longer-range version of the Hsiung Feng which is designed to hit targets deep in China.
Better health care seen for teachers seen by '25
THE Department of Education (DepEd) said that it aims to provide expanded health care benefits to public school teachers nationwide once the increased medical allowance for government employees is implemented by 2025.
'Yes she can': Obama says US ready for a Harris presidency
CHICAGO, United States — Barack Obama told fellow Democrats in Chicago Tuesday that "the torch has been passed" to Kamala Harris and that the United States was ready for her to become president.