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President Biden cancels funding for Trump border wall - BBC News

Over $15bn had been spent on the US-Mexico border wall by the time Trump left office last month.

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China bans BBC World News from broadcasting - BBC News

China has criticised the BBC for its reports on coronavirus and persecution of the Uighurs.

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Finland snow art: Locals create giant pattern on golf course - BBC News

An amateur artist and volunteers create possibly the largest snow-drawing the country has ever seen.

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The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision - YouTube

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACEThe Andromeda galaxy is heading str...

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Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find - BBC News

Despite poor vision and a severe lack of thumbs, Hamlet and other pigs could learn to be gamers.

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Pablo Escobar: Why scientists want to kill Colombia's hippos - BBC News

Illegally brought to Colombia by drug baron Pablo Escobar, the animals have become a major headache.

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Obesity: Appetite drug could mark 'new era' in tackling condition - BBC New

Some of the people on the 15-month trial lost more than a fifth of their body weight.

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India: Nepal bans India climbers for faking Everest summit - BBC News

The two climbers failed to produce reliable pictures and other evidence to support their summit claim.

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Ancient hunter-gatherer seashell resonates after 17,000 years - BBC News

French archaeologists get near-perfect notes from a conch shell last used by hunter-gatherers.

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Bitcoin consumes 'more electricity than Argentina' - BBC News

The rising value of Bitcoin leads to ever-higher energy consumption, researchers say.

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Ozone layer 'rescued' from CFC damage - BBC News

A steady decline in the levels of ozone-harming CFCs in the atmosphere has resumed, scientists say.

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Hustler founder and free-speech activist Larry Flynt dies aged 78 - BBC New

Flynt was also known for his legal battles that reinforced free speech rights in the United States.

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US election: Criminal probe into Trump's 'find the votes' call - BBC News

The then-president was recorded asking Georgia officials to find enough votes to reverse his defeat.

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The greatest security threat of the post-truth age - BBC Future

The terms "national security" or "cyber-security" may be familiar – but what about "epistemic security"?

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China Mars mission: Tianwen-1 spacecraft enters into orbit - BBC News

A day after the UAE arrived at Mars, China says its Tianwen-1 mission is also now in orbit.

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Texas lawyer, trapped by cat filter on Zoom call, informs judge he is not a

Lawyer Rod Ponton, unable to undo cat filter during court debate, says: ‘I don’t know how to remove it … I’m here live. I’m not a cat’

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Europe's oldest person survives Covid just before 117th birthday - BBC News

Having battled coronavirus, French nun Sister Andre will celebrate her 117th birthday this week.

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Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars? - BBC Culture

In new film News of the World, the actor cements his status as cinema’s ultimate dad. But does Hollywood’s Mr Nice Guy also represent the end of a paradigm, asks Christina Newland.

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Emirates Mars Mission: Hope spacecraft enters orbit - BBC News

The United Arab Emirates celebrates as its Hope mission makes it safely into orbit around Mars.

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Covid: WHO team says 'extremely unlikely' virus leaked from lab - BBC News

A team of international and Chinese experts say more work is needed to find the source of the virus.

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Emirates Mars Mission: Hope probe lines up historic Mars manoeuvre - BBC Ne

The United Arab Emirates aims to put a probe in orbit at Mars to study its atmosphere.

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Robinhood: US family sue trading app over son's suicide - BBC News

The parents of Alex Kearns, 20, say he thought he had lost $730,000 when he took his own life.

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'Overtly sexual' cow blocked as Facebook ad - BBC News

A gallery owner says photographs, including one of the England cricket team, have been rejected

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Elon Musk's Tesla buys $1.5bn of Bitcoin causing currency to spike - BBC Ne

The cryptocurrency surges 17% as Tesla also said it could start accepting Bitcoin as payment.

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The anxieties and apps fuelling the astrology boom - BBC Worklife

So many are newly turning to astrology – but why? A perfect storm of factors has driven a surge in looking to the stars for truth.

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