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Charles Darwin: Autographed document could fetch record price - BBC News

At auction is a rare, signed document the scientist produced for a 19th Century celebrity magazine.

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Australia: Five-year-old rescued from python by dad and elderly grandad - B

The "naughty" python bit the five year old, before dragging him into a swimming pool in his home.

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Charles V: French scientists decode 500-year-old letter - BBC News

A French team has decoded a letter from Charles V, revealing rumours of an assassination plot.

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Italy landslide: Five bodies found as rescue work continues - BBC News

Heartbreaking accounts emerge of the last moments of victims of a landslide on the Italian island of Ischia.

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The Kenyans lured to become unwitting 'love' fraudsters - BBC News

How Kenyans are being scammed by south-east Asian trafficking cartels posing as job recruitment agents.

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‘Publishing is not a crime’: media groups urge US to drop Julian Assange ch

First outlets to publish WikiLeaks material, including the Guardian, come together to oppose prosecution

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Artemis: Nasa's Orion capsule breaks distance record - BBC News

The spacecraft travels further from Earth than any previous vehicle built for astronauts.

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Patagotitan: Colossal dinosaur heading for UK display - BBC News

A cast of what may be the biggest ever dinosaur - 70-tonne Patagotitan - will go on show in London.

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Missing daughter reunited with family after 51 years - BBC News

A DNA test and an ancestry website have helped end a family's agonising search for answers.

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Spanish coastguard finds stowaways on ship rudder - BBC News

Three people are being treated for dehydration after the 11-day voyage from Lagos in Nigeria.

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Do students really eat that badly? - BBC Future

University students are often derided for eating poorly. But is the stereotype of a bad diet stuck in the past?

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Ukraine war: Russia hits out as Pope labels minority ethnic soldiers 'cruel

Chechens and Buryat soldiers are generally "crueller" than other Russians in Ukraine, the pontiff says.

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Love Actually director Richard Curtis uncomfortable with movie's lack of di

The director admits he feels "a bit stupid" about the festive rom-com movie's lack of diversity.

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Twitter ends Covid misinformation policy under Musk - BBC News

The Twitter website says it stopped enforcing its misleading information policy on 23 November.

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Alzheimer's drug lecanemab hailed as momentous breakthrough - BBC News

Lecanemab is the first drug to remove damage, but there are questions around its impact, side effects and use.

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Somalia meteorite: Joy as scientists find two new elements - BBC News

Elaliite and elkinstantonite are the new names but the Saar people in Somalia call it Nightfall.

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Gaslighting: Merriam-Webster picks its word of the year - BBC News

Searches for the word have spiked by 1,740% this year, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

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French baguette gets Unesco heritage status - BBC News

President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the news saying the loaf was "250 grams of magic and perfection".

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The polar dinosaurs revealing ancient secrets - BBC Future

There's mounting evidence that some dinosaurs lived among snow and ice. How did they do it?

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San Francisco to allow police 'killer robots' - BBC News

The measure permits police to deploy robots equipped with explosives in extreme circumstances.

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Canada: Ambassador tells EU that deforestation rules 'burdensome' - BBC New

The EU regulation aims to limit the trade of products linked to deforestation worldwide.

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xkcd: Spacetime Soccer

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(133) Debate world champion explains how to argue | Bo Seo - YouTube

Bo Seo, Harvard’s former debate coach, explains a good argument.Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?...

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World's most expensive cities: New York and Singapore top list - BBC News

The cost of living in both cities is now the joint highest worldwide, with Tel Aviv in third.

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(5) Why Penrose Tiles Never Repeat - YouTube

The first 200 people to https://brilliant.org/minutephysics get 20% off an annual premium subscription to Brilliant. Thanks to Brilliant for their support.Th...

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