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North Korea’s second spy satellite launch fails
EPA By Jean Mackenzie & Kelly Ng in Seoul and Singapore North Korea’s second attempt to put a spy satellite into space has failed, three months after its first launch crashed into the sea. The attempt on Thursday morning failed during the third stage of its flight, state media said. For North Korean leader Kim…
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‘Girl’ trends are sticky and fun. But they can also be problematic.
Lazy girl jobs, girl math, girl dinner – feminised trends are everywhere on social media. There’s community and levity in them, but also a darker side. In July, the “lazy girl job” took over social media. In a TikTok video, 26-year-old creator Gabrielle Judge, who coined the term, described this kind of role as “basically…
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Gaslighting and shame: Uncovering the stories of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries
Getty Images By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter The Magdalene Laundries were back in the spotlight recently following the death of Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, who spent time in one of the former asylums as a teenager. A new BBC drama examines the impact of the abuse which took place at some of these notorious institutions.…
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Nepal gay marriage ‘victory’ hits legal roadblock
Maya Gurung By Shreejana Shrestha & Rama Parajuli BBC Nepali Maya Gurung and Surendra Pandey were poised to create history. Maya is a transgender woman but has not changed her gender on official documents. Her partner Surendra is a gay man. They were to be Nepal’s first same-sex couple to legally get married, following an…
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The curious ways your skin shapes your health
Weathered or unhealthy skin is emerging as a major risk factor for almost every single age-related disease, from Parkinson’s to type 2 diabetes. I’m canoeing through the Ardèche gorge in southern France – and attracting some peculiar looks. It’s early afternoon on a blazing July day, and the sky is a perfect canvas of cobalt…
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Games podem fazer bem para a saúde mental? Pesquisadores explicam
Vamos combinar que por muito tempo, a maioria dos pais lutou para administrar as horas de jogo e a rotina de seus filhos. Imagine ter de disciplinar um adolescente que corria da mesa dos estudos para o controle do Playstation, uma tarefa nada fácil, não é mesmo? Mas acredite se quiser, um estudo acaba de…
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How Russia reacted after Prigozhin plane crash
By Will Vernon BBC News, Moscow Reuters Russia is a country full of surprises. People here were shocked this summer after drones attacked the centre of Moscow on several occasions, causing explosions and damage to buildings. Then, the Russian rouble took an unexpected tumble – briefly tipping the dollar rate to over 100 roubles. Add…
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Yevgeny Prigozhin: Was the Wagner chief a dead man walking?
Reuters By Frank Gardner BBC security correspondent Ever since he led a mutinous march on Moscow in late June Yevgeny Prigozhin was described by Russia watchers as “a dead man walking”. Commenting recently on the mercenary boss’s life expectancy the CIA Director William Burns even said: “If I were Prigozhin I wouldn’t fire my food…
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Ros Atkins on… Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin
Russia’s aviation authority says that the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was on a plane that crashed in western Russia. BBC Analysis editor Ros Atkins takes a look at how Prigozhin went from incarceration in the 1980s to the leader of a recent coup.
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Almuerzo and the super-sandwiches of Valencia
Valencia’s late-morning tradition of “almuerzo” includes a giant sandwich, peanuts, beer and plenty of conviviality. It is 11:00 on a Tuesday at Bodega Casa Flor, a 130-year-old restaurant in the Cabanyal neighbourhood of Valencia City, Spain, and noise levels have reached a peak. Waiters zip around bearing huge paper-wrapped sandwiches to tables strewn with peanuts…