Flipkart said on Thursday it had acquired parent Walmart Inc`s local cash-and-carry business, as the e-commerce firm strengthens its wholesale offerings to compete better with Amazon.

Flipkart buys parent Walmart's Indian wholesale business

Climate change has long been a hot button issue in Australia, becoming even more so since last summer when intense wildfires raged for about four months across large parts of the country, killing 33 people and millions of animals.

A student has filed first climate change lawsuit against Australian government

Gold jumped more than 1% on Wednesday to its highest in nearly nine years, driven by a weaker dollar and as expectations of more stimulus to revive pandemic-hit economies lifted the metal’s appeal as an inflation-hedge.

Gold firms near nine-year peak on weaker dollar, stimulus bets

Gold prices in India hit a record high on Wednesday, tracking a global rally. Local gold futures reached an all-time high of $670.32 (Rs 49,996) per 10 grams in early trade, taking their gains to 28 per cent in 2020 after rising a quarter in 2019.

India gold prices hit all-time high, dampen retail demand

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is considering four Black women to be the vice-president if he wins the presidential election to be held in November later this year.

Joe Biden is considering four Black women for vice-president

Russia has for the first time conducted a successful flight test of a 3D-printed aircraft engine, and its production is scheduled for 2021-2022. The press service of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry told Sputnik: "Russia has for the first time conducted flight tests of the MGTD-20 gas turbine engine made by 3D-printing.

Russia successfully holds flight test of 3D-printed aircraft engine

Yuki Okinaga Hayakawa Llewellyn, who came to symbolize one of America's darkest chapters, has died nearly eight decades after being shipped to a US internment camp during World War II.

Yuki Okinaga, Japanese-American woman who symbolised World War II tragedy, dies

The dam at a small reservoir in China's Guangxi region gave way last month after days of heavy rain in a collapse that could be a harbinger of sterner tests for many of the country's 94,000 aging dams as the weather gets more extreme.

Dam collapse in China could be Black Swan event for 94,000 aging structures

The United States has called on Turkey to halt its plans to conduct seismic research in Greece's territorial waters and avoid steps that escalate tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, a US Department of State spokesperson told Sputnik.

US asks Turkey to not conduct research in Greece's waters

In the aftermath of the novel coronavirus spreading far and wide across the world, and primarily ravaging the United States, President Donald Trump has been harsh on China and its policies.

Trump properties have imported over 8 tonnes of goods from China since September: Report

Fourteen people were injured after gunfire erupted outside a funeral home on Chicago’s South Side, police officials said Tuesday. One person was in custody and additional suspects were being sought after the operation was done with.

Fourteen injured after shooting outside Chicago funeral home

A new study claims that in people with mild coronavirus infection, the antibodies sharply drop over the first three months of the contraction. According to the study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, a research team at the University of California, Los Angeles, did an in-depth study of 34 people who had recovered from a mild infection.

Immunity drops quickly in mild COVID-19 cases, says study

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