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Danish artist told to repay museum €67,000 after turning in two blank canvasses
By Alex Smith BBC News A Danish artist has been ordered to return nearly 500,000 kroner (€67,000) to a museum after he supplied it with two blank canvasses for a project he named “Take the Money and Run”. The Kunsten Museum in Aalborg had intended for Jens Haaning to embed the banknotes two pieces of…
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Peru coach crash: 24 dead as bus falls into ravine
By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News At least 24 people have been killed and 21 injured in a coach crash in Peru. The inter-city coach was travelling overnight in the Andes mountains between the cities of Huancayo and Huanta when it fell into a 200m-deep (650 ft) ravine. Coach crashes are common in Peru, especially at…
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Chioma Nnadi named new British Vogue editor-in-chief
By Paul Glynn Entertainment reporter Fashion journalist and podcaster Chioma Nnadi has been named as the new head of editorial content at British Vogue. Nnadi will become the first black female head of the industry-leading fashion title, which also has outlets in the US, France and Italy. She recently took over as editor of Vogue.com,…
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Officer rescues trapped driver in flooded car
A police officer in Atlanta, in the US, waded through waist-deep water to rescue a motorist trapped in floodwater. Officers had been dealing with a string of emergencies caused by the heavy rain, one of which occurred when the officer came across a partially submerged sedan with the driver still inside. The water was so…
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Paedophile football coach Barry Bennell dies in prison
Paedophile former football coach Barry Bennell has died in prison aged 69. Bennell, also known as Richard Jones, was jailed for 30 years in 2018 after being convicted of 52 child sexual offences against 12 boys. The former Crewe Alexandra coach abused boys in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. A judge at Liverpool Crown Court…
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Chronic migraines have forced me to quit, says Dehenna Davison
Conservative MP Dehenna Davison has resigned as a levelling up minister, saying “chronic migraines” have made it “impossible” to do her job. Writing to the prime minister, she said people deserved “a minister who can give the job the energy it needs”. She said serving in government had been “an immense privilege that I will…
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Rare dinosaur ‘Barry’ up for sale at Paris auction
By Megan Fisher BBC News An almost fully complete dinosaur skeleton will be sold at auction in Paris next month. The rare 150 million-year-old camptosaurus was first discovered in the 1990s in the US by palaeontologist Barry James. Named Barry after the man who found him in Wyoming, experts said he is “extremely well preserved”.…
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Ukraine war: Russia demands UN court throw out case against it
By Robert Plummer BBC News Russia has called on the International Court of Justice to throw out a case brought against it by Ukraine. Kyiv accuses Moscow of falsely using genocide law to justify its invasion. Russia maintains that it intervened in Ukraine to prevent a genocidal attack on ethnic Russians in the east. The…
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World’s oldest post office in Sanquhar finds new owners
The future of the world’s oldest operating post office in southern Scotland has been secured after new owners were found. Barry and Mary Ford were living in Florida when they first heard the Sanquhar site was up for sale. The town’s post office first opened in 1712 and has been in continuous operation since then.…
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US military asks for public’s help to find F-35 fighter jet
By Megan Fisher BBC News The US military has asked for the public’s help to try and locate one of its F-35 fighter jets after its pilot ejected from the aircraft. It went missing on Sunday afternoon when the pilot was flying in the southern state of South Carolina. The pilot is in a stable…