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Coronavirus: Twitter removes more than 170,000 pro-China accounts - BBC New
The social media platform identified Beijing-linked accounts that have been posting misinformation.
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Man charged with poisoning homeless people in California - BBC News
The suspect is accused of feeding his victims with a substance "twice as strong" as pepper spray.
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BBC - Travel - The island with a key to our future
Scientists are looking to a 19th-Century terraform experiment on Ascension Island for clues on how to reverse negative global trends like deforestation and bush fires.
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Solar Orbiter: Europe's Sun mission makes first close pass - BBC News
The UK-built Solar Orbiter will track by our star on Monday at a distance of just over 77 million km.
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Kathy Sullivan: The woman who's made history in sea and space - BBC News
Kathy Sullivan is the first person to ever travel to both space and the bottom of the ocean.
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Swiss search for owner of gold haul left on train - BBC News
The hoard, worth around £152,000, was found left behind on a train in Switzerland last October.
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Woman hatches ducks from Waitrose eggs - BBC News
Beep, Peep and Meep started life on a supermarket shelf but will now live with Charli Lello's chickens.
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Polish election: Andrzej Duda says LGBT 'ideology' worse than communism - B
The favourite to win Poland's 28 June election denounces gay rights activism as an alien ideology.
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The people solving mysteries during lockdown - BBC Future
From searching for missing people to helping to catch criminals, there are growing numbers of people who are using their sleuthing skills while at home during the pandemic.
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How vaginas are finally losing their stigma - BBC Culture
This weekend, a new museum opens in London dedicated to female genitalia – helping to lift a taboo that runs all the way back to the birth of Western art, writes Holly Williams.
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Spike Lee sorry for supporting accused director Woody Allen - BBC News
Lee spoke about his fellow filmmaker and "friend", who denies accusations he abused his daughter.
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Mars: Green glow detected on the Red Planet - BBC News
A joint European-Russian satellite observes a light in Mars’ atmosphere that's generated by oxygen.
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Luce Douady: French 16-year-old climber dies from fall - BBC News
Luce Douady was seen as a future star of the climbing world after wowing in senior competition.
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Navajo Nation: The people battling America's worst coronavirus outbreak - B
The challenges of life in the Navajo Nation have made containing Covid-19 even more difficult.
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Instagram 'will overtake Twitter as a news source' - BBC News
A report finds Instagram doubled its news audience last year - and could overtake Twitter by 2021.
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Coronavirus: Alarm over 'invasive' Kuwait and Bahrain contact-tracing apps
Kuwait and Bahrain's apps put users' privacy and security at risk, Amnesty International says.
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The record-breaking jet which still haunts a country - BBC Future
A decade after World War Two, Canada built a jet which pushed technology to its limits. But its demise showed why smaller nations found it difficult to compete in the Jet Age.
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Diego, the Galápagos tortoise with a species-saving sex drive, retires - BB
Diego, aged 100, returns to his native Galápagos island after decades of breeding in captivity.
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A Bee C: Scientists translate honeybee queen duets - BBC News
Queens "quack" when ready to hatch - but if two are free at the same time, they fight to the death.
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Mary Trump: Why has president's niece penned damning memoir? - BBC News
Mary Trump is due to release a book that describes her uncle as the world's most dangerous man.
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Europe pushes ahead with 'dune buggy' Mars rover - BBC News
Airbus-UK wins a contract to advance the design of a robot for the Red Planet with four big wheels.
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The learning opportunities hiding in our failures - BBC Worklife
Failure is often seen as a source of shame. But if we studied and shared our failures, we could learn a lot from them.
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Israel's West Bank annexation plan condemned by UN experts - BBC News
The rights experts say the plan amounts to a "vision of a 21st Century apartheid".
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Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug - BBC News
Patients should be given the cheap drug without delay, after "fantastic" trial results, experts say.
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Will the world be quieter after the pandemic? - BBC Future
With fewer people on the streets, cars on the roads, businesses closed and flights grounded, the daily noise that fills our lives has reduced. Can we hope to keep the hubbub down?
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