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Kuno cheetah deaths: Could radio collars be killing the big cats in India?
ANI By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Could radio collars, the crucial electronic devices that help track the movement of protected animals, be harmful for them? That is the question many are asking after the deaths last week of two cheetahs who were among the 20 big cats brought to India with much fanfare last…
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Hunter Biden: Who are the IRS tax whistleblowers?
Getty Images By Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent @awzurcher Two Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigators have testified to Congress that the investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax returns were hampered by justice department officials for political reasons. They allege that Mr Biden, who agreed on 20 June to plead guilty to two misdemeanour tax offences and…
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Mark Ronson: BIllie Eilish’s Barbie song ‘just floored me’
Mark Ronson / Instagram By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Fifteen months ago, Mark Ronson got a text from his friend George Drakoulias, the man who’d discovered LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys. It contained just one word: “Barbie?” Drakoulias had been hired as a music supervisor for the Barbie film and he had…
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Inside the Met Police: Former officers open up
Handout By Liz Jackson BBC News The Metropolitan Police was recently described as institutionally misogynist in a review by Baroness Casey, who found that a “boys’ club” culture was rife and the force was failing to protect the public from officers who abuse women. Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has told the BBC that the…
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Armed police run through Auckland as shooting unfolds
A shooting has left two people dead in the centre of Auckland, New Zealand, hours before the city is due to open the Fifa Women’s World Cup. Six other people, including police officers, were injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident at 07:22 (19:22 GMT) on a construction site in the central…
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The Blue Flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project
One day in Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project, a brief, casual moment of carelessness killed one scientist and severely injured another. In this specially illustrated story, the artist and writer Ben Platts-Mills recounts what happened to these atomic bomb-makers – and why their accident holds powerful lessons for today. “…In the search for a harmonious attitude towards…
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Artificial intelligence: Experts propose guidelines for safe systems
Getty Images By Zoe Kleinman Technology editor A global group of AI experts and data scientists has released a new voluntary framework for developing artificial intelligence products safely. The World Ethical Data Foundation has 25,000 members including staff working at various tech giants such as Meta, Google and Samsung. The framework contains a checklist of…
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Canada wants US skilled workers – and they are interested
Leon Yang By Sam Cabral and Nadine Yousif BBC News, Washington and Toronto When Leon Yang was 16, he moved by himself from Xi’An, China to the US, to study in a country where he believed that, if he worked hard every day, he could get where he wanted. Fascinated by airplanes and everything else…
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Deadly shooting rattles Auckland just before Women’s World Cup
A shooting has left two people dead at a construction site in the central business district of Auckland, New Zealand, police say. At least four other people are thought to have been injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident which came at 07:22 (19:22 GMT). Mayor Wayne Brown said it was a…
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Best places to eat in Auckland according to chef Peter Gordon
From Asian-fusion feasts at Hello Beasty to fish and chips at FishSmith, the “godfather of fusion cooking” shares his top food picks in the world’s biggest Polynesian city. New Zealand’s most populous city sprawls across an isthmus between two harbours, its downtown commercial district perched on the waterfront of the Waitematā, a spiky cluster of…