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Hervé Gourdel: Man sentenced over French tourist's killing - BBC News
The jihadist abduction and killing of mountaineer Hervé Gourdel in Algeria in 2014 prompted outrage.
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Nasa's Perseverance rover lands on Mars - BBC News
Perseverance will now spend at least two years looking for evidence of past life on the Red Planet.
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Sugarbook dating app maker arrested over 'promoting prostitution' - BBC New
The Malaysian app advertises itself as connecting younger women with older men.
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What happens when you work from bed for a year - BBC Worklife
The allure of working from bed is strong – but turning your mattress into your office can trigger a slew of health problems, both psychological and physical.
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Isle of Man Viking jewellery found by metal detectorist - BBC News
A retired police officer found the rare silver and gold jewellery, which has been declared treasure.
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Covid and suicide: Japan's rise a warning to the world? - BBC News
For the first time in 11 years, suicide among women has gone up, and the pandemic is playing a part.
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Nasa Mars rover: Perseverance robot heads for daunting landing - BBC News
The one-tonne robot must survive a high-speed descent to the surface before it can search for life.
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Omegle: Children expose themselves on video chat site - BBC News
Omegle links up random people for virtual video and text chats, and claims to be moderated.
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If Planet Nine exists, why has no one seen it? - BBC Future
Strange things are happening at the outer edges of our solar system. An object up to ten times the mass of Earth is pulling others towards it. Is it a planet, or something else?
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Facebook blocks Australian users from viewing or sharing news - BBC News
It comes in response to a proposed law that would force the company to pay publishers for content.
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Google to pay Murdoch's News Corporation for stories - BBC News
Rupert Murdoch has championed the idea that internet platforms should pay media companies for material.
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'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic' - BBC News
Email app Hey reveals that two-thirds of the messages it handles contain the hidden trackers.
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BBC - Travel - Welcome to Polebridge: One of the US' last frontiers
For more than a century, settlers have been drawn to this pioneering town because of the sheer beauty of the surrounding wilderness – but residents worry that may soon change.
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BBC - Travel - The Himalayan peak off limits to climbers
Climbing Machhapuchhare is forbidden, a rarity in a country like Nepal that has embraced mountain tourism so enthusiastically that even the world's highest point gets overcrowded.
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Perseverance rover: Nasa robot heading for a bulls-eye landing - BBC News
The American space agency says its Perseverance robot is lined up perfectly for its mission at Mars.
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Coronavirus: Priest providing 'takeaway ashes' for Ash Wednesday - BBC News
More than 600 portions of holy ashes in sauce containers have been distributed in County Donegal.
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Princess Latifa: 'Hostage' ordeal of Dubai ruler's daughter revealed - BBC
"I just want to be free," Princess Latifa, daughter of Dubai's ruler, says in video messages secretly recorded from a villa where she was being held following her failed escape in 2018.
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The flesh-eating disease spreading in Australia - BBC Future
Scientists are scrambling to understand rising cases of Buruli ulcer in Australia – and of the role humans and possums play in spreading it.
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Computer says go: Taking orders from an AI boss - BBC News
As artificial intelligence systems get more prevalent, some of us already have computers as managers.
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How Congo-Brazzaville's shark population came under threat - BBC News
The shark population off Congo-Brazzaville is threatened as desperate fishermen search deeper waters.
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Robots deployed at A68A mega-iceberg remnants - BBC News
A UK research ship arrives at the remains of what was once the biggest iceberg in the world.
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Abydos beer factory: Ancient large-scale brewery discovered in Egypt - BBC
The archaeological find in the Abydos burial ground is thought to date back about 5,000 years.
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BBC - Travel - The untranslatable word that connects Wales
A blend of homesickness, nostalgia and longing, "hiraeth" is a pull on the heart that conveys a distinct feeling of missing something irretrievably lost.
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Does yoga have a conspiracy theory problem? - BBC News
Some online yoga influencers are accused of spreading conspiracy theories. Does yoga have a problem?
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Solving Covid easy compared with climate - Bill Gates - BBC News
Solving global warming would be “the most amazing thing humanity has done”, says the billionaire.
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