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‘It’s good to be home,’ after 371 days in space
Astronaut Frank Rubio and his fellow cosmonauts, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, landed safely in Kazakhstan this Wednesday after more than a year aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Their mission was scheduled to last six months, but a leak in their capsule forced them to wait for a replacement spacecraft.
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Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenians rush to help ‘brothers and sisters’
By Sarah Rainsford in Goris & Kornidzor, Armenia BBC News Every hour, the number of people fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh climbs even further. The official count of refugees is now close to half the population of the enclave. The scenes at the border suggest the region is being emptied of ethnic Armenians. As they come, the aid…
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Cassidy Hutchinson: Five things we learned from latest Trump aide book
By Madeline Halpert BBC News Cassidy Hutchinson is the former White House aide who MSNBC said “gave some of the most compelling, damning and explosive testimony” to the 6 January committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol in 2021. She was the top aide to Mark Meadows, then-president Donald Trump’s White House chief of…
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Iraq fire: Eyewitnesses tell of wedding hall blaze horror
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Ethar Shalaby BBC Arabic More than 100 people have been killed and many more injured in a blaze at a wedding celebration in Qaraqosh in northern Iraq. Eyewitnesses have described to the BBC scenes of horror…
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Bob Menendez: US senator pleads not guilty as FBI probes Egypt ties
By Chloe Kim BBC News US Senator Bob Menendez and his wife have pleaded not guilty to bribery charges as the FBI opens a counterintelligence probe into the senator’s ties with Egyptian officials. The New Jersey senator is accused of accepting gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. Prosecutors allege he used…
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What does spending more than a year in space do to the human body?
Nasa astronaut Frank Rubio has just returned from a record-breaking 371 days in space onboard the ISS, but the trip may have altered his muscles, brain and even the bacteria living in his gut. With a few handshakes, a brief photoshoot and a wave, Nasa astronaut Frank Rubio bid farewell to the American-football-field-sized collection of…
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NFL’s Travis Kelce breaks silence on ‘amazing’ Taylor Swift
National Football League star Travis Kelce has praised his rumoured love interest, Taylor Swift, for her internet-breaking appearance at his game last Sunday. “Shout out to Taylor for showing up,” Kelce said on the podcast he shares with his brother. “That was pretty ballsy. I sure as hell enjoyed the weekend.” Swift looked on from…
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Scientists get closer to solving mystery of antimatter
By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent Scientists have made a key discovery about antimatter – a mysterious substance which was plentiful when the Universe began. Antimatter is the opposite of matter, from which stars and planets are made. Both were created in equal amounts in the Big Bang which formed our Universe. While matter is everywhere,…
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GB News suspends Wootton after Fox comments
Dan Wootton has been suspended from GB News following comments made on his show by Laurence Fox, who asked what “self-respecting man” would “climb into bed” with female reporter Ava Evans. The broadcaster had earlier suspended Fox for his comments during a live show about PoliticsJOE’s Evans. Evans said the comments made her feel “sick”…
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Travis King in American custody after N Korea expulsion
US soldier Travis King, who fled to North Korea in July, is in American custody after being expelled by Pyongyang, officials say. Senior US administration officials confirmed that Mr King had been transferred to US custody in China. The 23-year-old reconnaissance specialist illegally crossed into North Korea in July. North Korean media said he had…