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Reshaping previous ideas on the story of civilisation, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey was built by a prehistoric people 6,000 years before Stonehenge.

Mr Bezos's Blue Origin says it was unfairly treated after being excluded from lunar landing contract.

What sort of nation will Afghanistan be after 2021, asks the BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson.

Sara Faith Alterman was always close to her father. Then she learned he was concealing a secret.

The Islamist group has claimed victory in Afghanistan, as residents and diplomats try to escape.

President Ashraf Ghani is reported to have fled the country as the insurgents reach the capital Kabul.

The secretive artist claims responsibility for pieces along England's east coast.

From surreal claymation to serious accounts of war and revolution, animation has much to offer grownups, write Owen Gleiberman and Nicholas Barber.

Scientists analyse the chemistry in a woolly mammoth tusk to work out how far it travelled.

Joe Biden won't be seeing the "war is over" headlines he hoped for when he decided to withdraw.

The situation looks bleak for the Afghan government, but there may still be a chance of a stalemate.

Thousands of Afghans seek refuge in the capital Kabul as the militants seize more key cities.

More than 8,000 mostly elderly people are urged to get vaccinated again as a nurse is questioned.

Alexander Kuranov, detained by FSB agents, runs a team of pioneering spaceflight researchers.

Politician Igor Redkin says he wanted to scare away a bear when he opened fire in Russia's Far East.

The tech giant has developed a calculator that lets staff see the effects of remote working.

Afghanistan's ex-rulers still back brutal punishments, the BBC finds as it goes behind Taliban lines.

From ancient Egypt to the Persian Empire, an ingenious method of catching the breeze kept people cool for millennia. Now, it could come to our aid once again.

Abiy Ahmed has asked all "capable" Ethiopians to join the fight against resurgent Tigrayan rebels.

The body and belongings of Esther Dingley are found close to where a bone fragment was discovered.

A sci-fi writer hits back at unfounded rumours that Covid jabs turn people into zombies.

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Engineers investigate why the Perseverance robot failed in its first attempt to gather a rock core.

There are privacy concerns that the system will be expanded to scan phones for political speech.