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NASA says it has succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos, says NASA chief Bill Nelson in a press conference from Washington. SOUNDBITE
Pope Francis praises the people in Morocco for their efforts to save Rayan, the five-year-old boy who fell down a 32-metre well in the north of the country earlier this week. Found dead in a tragic end to a five-day rescue operation that gripped the nation and the world, the emergency crews "put everything they had into it," the Pope says in the Angelus prayer. SOUNDBITE
Yangon, Mar 3 (EFE/EPA).- At least nine people, including two minors, were shot dead Wednesday in Myanmar as authorities launched fresh crackdowns against coup protesters while Pope Francis urged that parties engage in peaceful dialog.Despite security forces' severe repression of demonstrations, which claimed the lives of at least 20 people Sunday, protests in rejection of the Feb. 1 military coup continued throughout the country. (Camera: NYEIN CHAN NAING). SHOT LIST: PROTEST AGAINST MILITARY COUP, ON MARCH 3, 2021, IN YANGON, MYANMAR.
Kate Upton wants to help "leave the Earth in good condition" for her daughter, as she vows to help combat climate change.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reopens the debate over Spain's centuries of dominance in the New World, urging Spanish King Felipe VI and Pope Francis to apologize for the conquest and the rights violations committed in its aftermath SOUNDBITE
In his weekly audience at the Vatican, Pope Francis calls for solidarity with the migrants and refugees now flooding into Europe. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).