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UAW auto strike: 8,700 Ford workers in Kentucky down tools
By Mariko Oi Business reporter The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has expanded its ongoing strike by shutting down Ford’s biggest plant. The UAW said 8,700 workers walked out of the truck plant in Kentucky, in response to Ford refusing to move further in contract bargaining. It is a sharp escalation of its strike against…
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How sound is providing new clues about the Universe
Astronomy is often thought of as a visual science that produces stunning images of the cosmos. But it’s possible to hear it as well. Astronomers are drowning in data. On the ground and in space, artificial eyes peer out in every direction from Earth. Where the human eye can pick out only the 5,000 brightest…
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Mar Menor: cleaning Europe’s largest saltwater lagoon
Mar Menor used to be a Spanish treasure until pesticide runoff and sewage turned it into a green soup. Can local activists help restore it? When Eladio Sánchez Egea returned home one evening in April 2020, after working another long day in the field, he found his 11-year-old son agitated. At school that day, the…
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Shah Rukh Khan: How Bollywood’s romance king became a fighting machine
By Meryl Sebastian BBC News Over three decades of his movie career, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s boyish charm, twinkling eyes and dimpled smile have become synonymous with charming romantic heroes he’s best known for playing. This year, he’s returned to the screen transformed – a rugged, action star. In a scene from his latest…
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Poland election: Bitter campaign splits country ahead of key vote
By Sarah Rainsford BBC Eastern Europe correspondent, Gdansk In the old Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, where striking workers were once the catalyst for major political change, young Poles now debate how to protect democracy in their country. They worry that the rights and freedoms won by the Solidarity movement over three decades ago are at…
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How much it costs to attend New York Comic Con
The annual comic book and entertainment convention in New York city is a cult favourite. Some attendees shell out thousands to go. For four days every October, New York City resembles something out of a science fiction movie – people dressed in elabourate, head-turning costumes pepper Manhttan’s West Side. These superheroes, winged creatures and anime…
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Sergio Brown: Ex-NFL player charged with his mother’s murder
By Mike Wendling BBC News A former NFL player has been charged with the murder of his mother after being arrested in California on Tuesday. Authorities had been searching for Sergio Brown since his mother Myrtle Brown, 73, was found dead near her home outside of Chicago last month. He will be extradited to Illinois…
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Madonna’s Celebration Tour: Greatest hits show to feature more than 40 songs
By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Madonna’s first ever greatest hits tour will be “a documentary through her vast career” that includes more than 40 songs, her musical director says. In an exclusive interview, Stuart Price told the BBC the show draws on four decades of archive footage and studio recordings to tell the star’s…
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Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away
By Ben King Business reporter, BBC News Nearly half a billion small electricals such as cables, lights, mini fans and disposable vapes, were thrown away last year, research from Material Focus has shown. These “Fast Tech” items, the electrical version of fast fashion, are the fastest-growing e-waste type, it says. The average home also has…
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From Wolf Creek to The Royal Hotel: Why the Australian outback is so terrifying
Chilling new film The Royal Hotel tells the story of two female backpackers threatened by men in an outback town. It’s just the latest work to depict menace in rural Australia, writes Dan Slevin. Horror movies derive much of their atmosphere and effectiveness from their locations. Imagine The Wicker Man in the garden of an…