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10 May

SpaceX will launch the ‘DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon’ in the first quarter of next year, with Elon Musk’s commercial rocket company accepting the meme-inspired cryptocurrency dogecoin as payment reut.rs/3uFmmds

Dogecoin lost more than a third of its price on Sunday, after Musk called it a ‘hustle’ during his guest-host spot on ‘Saturday Night Live’ reut.rs/3hhVTyK

Dogecoin was quoted as low as $0.416 on crypto exchange Binance, down 36% from levels around $0.65 before the show.

It retraced some of that move later on Sunday, and was last trading around $0.569

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10 May

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Indian coronavirus infections and deaths hold close to record daily highs, but the Indian government has another worry: ‘black fungus’ reut.rs/3o486YZ @Manasmishra24 @kannaki 1/4

Doctors treating COVID-19 patients, diabetics and those with compromised immune systems were told to watch for symptoms of mucormycosis or ‘black fungus’ 2/4

The disease, which can lead to blackening or discoloration over the nose, blurred or double vision, chest pain, breathing difficulties and coughing blood, is linked to diabetes.

Diabetes can be exacerbated by steroids such as dexamethasone, used to treat severe COVID 3/4

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10 May

Palestinian protesters threw rocks and Israeli police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets in clashes outside Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Monday as Israel marked the anniversary of its capture of parts of the city in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war reut.rs/2QZ2cMZ 1/5

East Jerusalem has seen nightly clashes during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with Palestinians pitted against Israeli police and settlers. The issues and the scale of the protests have varied, covering religion, land and politics reut.rs/3ttxiJC 2/5

When did the protests start?

From the beginning of Ramadan in mid-April, Palestinians have clashed with Israeli police, who put up barriers to stop evening gatherings at the walled Old City's Damascus Gate after iftar, the breaking of the daytime fast 3/5

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6 May

Riot police fired tear gas at protesters in Bogota, Colombia, during an eighth day of nationwide anti-government demonstrations reut.rs/3vIe7xh 1/5

The protests were originally called in opposition to a now-canceled tax reform plan, but demonstrators have broadened their demands to include government action to tackle poverty, police violence and inequalities in the health and education systems 2/5

Demonstrations and lawmaker opposition led to the tax reform's withdrawal and the resignation of the finance minister. International organizations have warned against police violence, which is so far linked to just under half of 24 confirmed deaths, mainly of protesters 3/5

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5 May

Meet Japan Pom Pom: Originally started with five people 26 years ago after Fumie Takino saw an overseas senior cheer squad in the news, the group now has 17 active members.

Members, all older than 55, must pass auditions reut.rs/2RtBQ5f 1/6

Pom poms rustle and silver shoes flash as 'Japan Pom Pom' practices, moving to a lively cheer dance beat.

With members ages 60 to 89, they're no ordinary squad.

But don't you dare call them grannies 2/6

Takino, who has three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, with another on the way, practices what she preaches.

She can't believe she'll be 90 next year, but reluctantly confesses she doesn't think she'll still be cheering at 100, though the group wants her to 3/6

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5 May

Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old.

He doesn’t even complete his medical training until next year.

And yet he is the doctor who must decide who will live and who will die when patients come to him gasping for breath, their family members begging for mercy reut.rs/3unECrr

As India’s healthcare system teeters on the verge of collapse during a brutal second wave of COVID-19, Aggarwal makes those decisions during a 27-hour workday that includes a grim overnight shift in charge of the emergency room at his New Delhi hospital

Everyone at Holy Family Hospital – patients, relatives and staff – knows there aren’t enough beds, not enough oxygen or ventilators to keep everyone who arrives at the hospital’s front gates alive.

'Who to be saved, who not to be saved should be decided by God,' Aggarwal says

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