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At Eswatini's Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, the UK welcomed improved social stability but raised concerns over violence against women and girls and discrimination against LGBT+ people, recommending legal reforms.
UNICEF's Water Under Fire Volume 4 documents attacks on water, sanitation and hygiene systems in 23 countries and territories, finding reported attacks damaging or destroying such systems rose threefold between 2021 and 2025.
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon finished US EVA-98 on 25 August, ESA reported, describing it as Adenot's second spacewalk and the 32nd by a European astronaut.
ESA says astronaut Sophie Adenot will make her third spacewalk on Tuesday 1 September during EVA-99, after completing two earlier spacewalks on 18 and 25 August.
The Security Industry Authority has published planning tools to help publicly accessible premises and events prepare for Martyn's Law, expected to come into force in spring 2027, and is seeking feedback until 23 December.
A nearly 2-pound rock found in the Sahara Desert in 2022 formed on Mars more than 4.1 billion years ago, NASA-funded researchers report, making it one of the oldest Martian meteorites known.
COP31, the UN’s annual climate conference, is being hosted in Antalya, Türkiye, from 9 to 20 November. The UK government says its priority is to uphold the Paris Agreement and keep countries working towards limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
The NIH–NASA QuSAFE Challenge will offer up to $7.1 million in prizes for quantum-enabled sensing aimed at improving drug safety testing in organoids and microphysiological systems while reducing animal use.
NASA's "Journey to Titan" campaign will carry submitted names on a microchip aboard the Dragonfly rotorcraft, with registration open until 11:59 p.m. EST on Jan. 15, 2027.
A Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar image, captured on 28 September 2026, shows Typhoon Surigae over the Philippine Sea about 200 km south of Japan's Shikoku island, revealing wind-driven sea conditions beneath the clouds.
UK Defence Innovation, working for Dstl, has launched a £2.8 million competition for electro optic sensing technologies, with Stage 1 applications due by noon on 9 December 2026.
At Trinidad and Tobago's Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, the UK acknowledged progress on human trafficking but raised concerns over violence against migrant women and girls, gaps in LGBT+ protections and the death penalty.
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