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LONDON Torsten Schoeneborn, global co-head of electronic equities and portfolio trading at BNP Paribas, is leaving the firm

Amazon.com Inc. has been talking with wireless carriers about offering low-cost or possibly free nationwide mobile phone service

Scientists have found an array of “dashes” within our universe, all arranged in an unexpected pattern. The vast structures are lying in the middle of our Milky Way galaxy and point towards the black hole at its core. There are hundreds of them, each five to 10 light-years long, researchers say. “It was a surprise to suddenly find a new population of structures that seem to be pointing in the direction of the black hole,” Northwestern University’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, who led the research. “I was actually stunned when I saw these. We had to do a lot of work to establish that we weren’t fooling ourselves. And we found that these filaments are not random but appear to be tied to the outflow of our black hole. By studying them, we could learn more about the black hole’s spin and accretion disk orientation. It is satisfying when one finds order in a middle of a chaotic field of the nucleus of our galaxy.” Scientists have no confirmed explanation for where the structures came from, and much about their existence remains a mystery. But one possible explanation is that they were thrown out from after some activity a few million years ago. In the early 1980s, Professor Yusef-Zadeh found a set of gigantic, one-dimensional filaments hanging across our galaxy, near Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. The new filaments were previously undiscovered, and are much shorter and lie across, spreading out from the black hole. “We have always been thinking about vertical filaments and their origin,” he said. “I’m used to them being vertical. I never considered there might be others along the plane.” The research is described in a new paper, ‘The Population of the Galactic Center Filaments: Position Angle Distribution Reveal a Degree-scale Collimated Outflow from Sgr A* along the Galactic Plane’, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Read More Most powerful space telescope ever built identifies ancient star-studded galaxy Academics prepare for mission to Mars in bid to prove water theory Japan to launch satellite made of wood in 2024

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The Eagles traded up in the first round to take arguably the best player in this year’s NFL draft. So far, so good for defensive tackle Jalen Carter.It still has to sting a bit. The Philadelphia Eagles won the NFC East with a 14-3 record. The team rolled the New York Giants and San Francis...

By Ariba Shahid and Asif Shahzad KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistan has passed a special order to allow barter trade

In August 2017, ex-soldier Christian Lewis set off to walk the entire UK coastline. Over the course of the epic hike, he met and fell in love with former teacher Kate Barron, who has joined him, and dog Jet. The couple have since had a son, Magnus.

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By Takaya Yamaguchi and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO Japan's government will pledge to pull the economy out of deflation

Global food costs fell to the lowest level in two years in May, reviving hopes that sticky inflation

China is working on a new basket of measures to support the property market after existing policies failed

Officials from Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party publicly bowed and apologized Friday for the handling of a series