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Tourist fined for approaching walrus in Norway
The man went near the animal on an ice floe near the world's northernmost settlement in Svalbard.
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Trump beats Ford to reach quarter-finals
Former world champion Judd Trump moves into the quarter-final of this year's competition as he finishes off a 13-7 win over Tom Ford.
2 min read - SportsBBC
World Snooker Championship 2024: Order of play, BBC TV coverage, match schedule, full results and highest break
Order of play, BBC TV coverage details, match schedule, results and prize money for the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.
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Power restored to Sierra Leone as minister quits
Most of the electricity in the capital is supplied by a Turkish ship floating off the country’s coast.
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Mount Fuji: Iconic view to be blocked to deter tourists
Residents are fed up with visitors dropping rubbish and parking illegally as they seek the perfect photo.
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Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police
Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. The 43-year-old was surrounded by police who arrested him after responding to a trespassing call in a Wisconsin parking lot. Officers had shocked him with a Taser and pinned him as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. Now he sat on the ground with hands cuffed behind his back and took in oxygen through a mask. Then, officers moved Jackson to his side so a medic could inject him with a potent knockout drug. “It’s just go
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As solar capacity grows, some of America's most productive farmland is at risk
Dave Duttlinger's first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his fields near Wheatfield, Indiana, are covered in solar panels and related machinery – land that in April 2019 Duttlinger leased to Dunns Bridge Solar LLC, for one of the largest solar developments in the Midwest. On that blustery spring afternoon in 2022, Duttlinger said, his phone rang with questions from frustrate
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