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Lukasz Szpunar from Poland has set the new Guinness World Record for being submerged in ice for over four hours. The Polish national had full body contact with ice while standing in a box full of ice for four hours and two minutes.…
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Pictures of Donald Trump sat in a New York courtroom have accompanied countless front-page stories about the first-ever criminal trial of a serving or former US president. That coverage has not been limited to the US. The world's media…
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A dog missing from California has been reunited with its owners after turning up almost nine months later - and more than 2,000 miles away from the family home. Terrier mix Mishka went missing from San Diego in mid-July last year and her…
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 The House of Representatives has finally approved billions of dollars in new US military aid for Ukraine to help combat Russia's invasion. The much-delayed measure had vocal opponents in Congress and it took a fragile bipartisan deal to…
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Israel’s three-man war cabinet is weighing the country’s response to an unprecedented overnight barrage of drone and missile strikes from Iran, which threatens to tip the crisis in the Middle East into an untempered regional war. The war…
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We had to meet Lisu in secret as she says the local Nigerian authorities are trying to prevent her from talking to journalists. She was one of the 276 girls abducted from their school in the town of Chibok exactly a decade ago - a…
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An extremely rare blind, hairy mole has been spotted and photographed in the Australian outback. The northern marsupial mole, or kakarratul, lives in one of the most remote parts of the nation and is so elusive that authorities don't…
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The Russian city of Orenburg is braced for widespread flooding as rivers swell across regions bordering Kazakhstan. The worse-than-usual seasonal floods have been caused by melting snow from the Ural Mountains, triggering evacuations…
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A Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted Bobrisky, a well-known Nigerian celebrity and transgender woman, after she pleaded guilty to charges related to the abuse of Naira notes. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)…
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UK scientists say they have found a new cause behind much of the damage asthma causes. Cells lining the airways are squeezed to destruction during an attack, their research shows. And drugs to prevent this, rather than manage its…
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