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|Mac Dynamic Wallpaper
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|Carrying the Fire
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|Extinct Artist
"I have always painted things I am obsessed with and always gone with my heart regardless of convention." Dave White came to prominence as the...
|Perseverance Pays
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| A New BMW Club to Join
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|Keep Rising Sir Lewis
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|Season’s Greetings (2020)
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Agatha Christie
|HAPPENING ELSEWHERE
|Science
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Will we ever have confirmation of life outside our solar system?
on 17 April | 2025
The report of possible biosignatures on the exoplanet K2-18b is exciting, but we are a long way from establishing beyond doubt that there is life on such a distant world
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Excavation in Sudan shows Roman Empire wasn’t as mighty as it claimed
on 17 April | 2025
When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite city – or so we thought
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Does the shipping industry's plan for net zero add up?
on 17 April | 2025
New global rules will see a carbon levy applied to emissions from shipping for the first time, but analysts say the package falls short of what is needed
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A classic hacking technique works on some quantum computers
on 17 April | 2025
Two independent research teams have developed methods for hacking noisy quantum computers based on a row-hammer attack, a type of interference used to infiltrate traditional computers
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Ancient computer's gears may not have been able to turn
on 17 April | 2025
The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming
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Astronomers claim strongest evidence of alien life yet
on 17 April | 2025
On a faraway planet, James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by living organisms – but researchers say we must interpret the results cautiously
|DAYS UNTIL THE CIRCUS
BELGIAN GP [Spa-Francorchamps]
|General
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Travellers warned to expect Tenerife hotel...
on 17 April | 2025 at 18:35
Travellers are warned of disruption as workers stage industrial action over pay and conditions.
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Four dead in cable car crash south of Naples
on 17 April | 2025 at 18:14
The cable car had been traversing the valley when a cable to one of the cabins snapped, local media report.
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Israeli strikes kill Palestinians in tented area...
on 17 April | 2025 at 18:03
Witnesses in al-Mawasi told the BBC that people were burned alive as tents were engulfed in flames.
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Heavy snow blocks Alpine resorts in Switzerland...
on 17 April | 2025 at 17:09
A Swiss ski resort is cut off and people have been told to stay indoors in the French resort of Tignes.
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French-Haitian panel to study ex-colony's history
on 17 April | 2025 at 16:38
The French president announced the commission on the 200th anniversary of France ordering Haiti to pay a debt for its freedom.
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US issues warning over new Zambian cyber-security...
on 17 April | 2025 at 16:15
The US says a new Zambian law is more intrusive than equivalents in many other countries.
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Trump administration threatens Harvard with...
on 17 April | 2025 at 15:27
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the institution of "threatening national security".
