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Pakistan: Rescue under way for eight people trapped in broken cable car
Pakistan National Disaster Management Agency By Kelly Ng BBC News A rescue is under way in Pakistan for eight people – including six children – trapped in a cable car dangling over a valley in the country’s north-west. The children were making their way to school when one of the cables snapped, leaving the car…
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Front loader scoops up flood victims in Coachella Valley
Rescue crews used a front loader to take residents trapped in their homes to safety in Coachella Valley, southern California. Storm Hilary battered parts of the US, bringing record-breaking rainfall and causing flash flooding. Death Valley National Park received a full year’s worth of rain in one day, and remains indefinitely closed. Hilary, now a…
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Microsoft makes new deal to buy Call of Duty giant
Activision By Dearbail Jordan, Daniel Thomas & Steffan Powell BBC business reporters and gaming corespondent Microsoft has made a new bid to buy Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard in the latest twist in the tale of what would be the biggest deal of its kind in the gaming industry. Its original $69bn (£59bn) deal was…
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Edinburgh Fringe funniest joke: Lorna Rose Treen’s zookeeper pun
Robert Perry/PinPep A joke about an unfaithful zookeeper has been named the funniest gag at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Comedian Lorna Rose Treen was voted the winner with her pun: “I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah.” The Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe is chosen by members…
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Fukushima nuclear disaster: Japan to release treated water this week
EPA By Kelly Ng BBC News Japan will start releasing treated radioactive water from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, despite opposition from its neighbours. The decision comes weeks after the UN’s nuclear watchdog approved the plan. Some 1.34 million tonnes of water – enough to fill 500 Olympic-size pools…
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Ukraine war: The men who don’t want to fight
BBC/Rob Taylor By James Waterhouse BBC Ukraine correspondent Ukraine isn’t meeting its demand for soldiers. Volunteers aren’t enough. The country constantly needs to replace the tens of thousands who’ve been killed or injured. Many more are just exhausted, after 18 months fighting off Russia’s full-scale invasion. But some men don’t want to fight. Thousands have…
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Two Ukrainian drones downed over Moscow region, says Russia
EPA By Emily McGarvey BBC News Russia’s defence ministry says it has thwarted a Ukrainian drone attack after it downed two drones over the Moscow region. Two other drones were intercepted over the Bryansk region, north-east of the Ukrainian border, it added. Flights were temporarily stopped to and from Moscow’s airports early on Tuesday, the…
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Timed Teaser: Why did England hero Mary Earps go viral?
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Endometriosis: How do you keep exercising with the condition?
By Megan Lawton BBC Newsbeat Painful periods, fatigue and infertility are just three of the symptoms of endometriosis. It affects one in 10 women in the UK and takes on average eight years to get a diagnosis – figures that haven’t changed for a decade There is no known cause or cure, and treatment can…
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Thakshin Shinawatra: Divisive ex PM returns to Thailand after 15 years
Yingluck Shinawatra/Facebook By Jonathan Head BBC News, Bangkok The return of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from 15 years of exile has been often promised, and always hotly anticipated. He is one of the most divisive figures in Thai history, a brash, politically-ambitious tycoon whose repeated successes in elections going back more than two decades…