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Amazon One: Palm scanner launched for 'secure' payments - BBC News

The tech giant launches a palm scanner for secure payments and other biometric checks.

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Tourist faces jail in Thailand over hotel review - BBC News

The man left several negative reviews which the hotel says are untrue and damage its reputation.

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Ai Weiwei: 'Too late' to curb China's global influence - BBC News

The Chinese artist and dissident says the West should have worried about China decades ago.

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The cat who hitched a lift on a worldwide tour - BBC News

Former Scottish rugby player Dean Nicholson met a lifelong friend as he cycled around the world.

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xkcd: Messaging Systems

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Romanian mayor wins election two weeks after Covid-related death - BBC News

Ion Aliman secured 64% of votes in Deveselu, despite having died from coronavirus complications.

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Trump taxes are 'national security' issue, Nancy Pelosi says - BBC News

The top Democrat in Washington asks whether President Trump owes money to foreign interests.

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Donald Trump 'paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017' - NY Time

The New York Times alleges years of tax avoidance, a claim the US president calls “fake news”.

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Sir David Attenborough warns world leaders over extinction crisis - BBC New

The naturalist uses a UN event to call on world leaders to do more to protect nature.

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BBC - Travel - The British town with a third ‘nationality’

Berwick-upon-Tweed has long existed on the borders of change between England and Scotland – a predicament that’s led to the creation of an altogether different identity.

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Why not all screen time is the same for children - BBC Future

Screens are a fixture in children's lives from a young age, but giving them access to television, tablets or phones doesn't always have a negative impact on their development.

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Sir David Attenborough spent lockdown 'listening to birds' - BBC News

The legendary naturalist says restrictions offered a rare chance to witness the natural world.

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(117) Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think? - YouTube

This is a Q&A excerpt on the topic of AI from a lecture by Richard Feynman from September 26th, 1985.This is a clip on the Lex Clips channel that I mostly us...

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The woman who quit smoking and built a global hypnotherapy firm - BBC News

Grace Smith used hypnosis to give up smoking, and it inspired her to take up the profession.

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Roe v Wade: Trump says Supreme Court ruling on abortion 'possible' - BBC Ne

The president says his Supreme Court nominee could rule on a landmark decision to legalise abortion.

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Sri Lanka returns 'hazardous waste' to UK - BBC News

Customs officials said hospital material and plastic was found in the shipment, in breach of rules.

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The long-lost Hitler sitcom that caused outrage - BBC Culture

Thirty years ago, the ill-conceived comedy Heil Honey I’m Home! was cancelled by its UK broadcaster after only one episode. Laura Martin talks to those involved.

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Sir David Attenborough: Naturalist gives Prince George a fossil at royal sc

Sir David presented Prince George with a fossilised shark tooth at a screening of his new programme.

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Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation? - BBC News

If nuclear power is key to tackling climate change, is it time to reconsider our attitudes?

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Azerbaijan and Armenia clash over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region - BBC Ne

At least 23 are killed in the heaviest clashes in years over long-disputed Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Coronavirus: Age and climate seen as behind Africa's low cases - BBC News

The continent has been spared the surge in coronavirus cases seen elsewhere in the world.

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BBC - Travel - The birthplace of a new ocean

Dystopian and singularly beautiful, Lake Abbe is a desolated landscape of limestone chimneys and active geothermal activity that may one day form the world’s next ocean.

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The German medical students who want to learn about abortion - BBC News

Lack of training is restricting access to abortion in Germany, but students are trying to change that.

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Magawa the mine-detecting rat wins PDSA Gold Medal - BBC News

Magawa the African giant pouched rat has won a PDSA Gold Medal for his work detecting landmines.

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The ancient trade holding back the Sahara Desert - BBC Future

For millennia, the gum of the acacia tree has been prized for its unusual culinary and medical uses. Now, the trees are part of a continent-wide effort to hold back the Sahara Desert.

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