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Sundar Pichai: Google ‘exploring’ censored China search app

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Google chief executive Sundar Pichai has said a censored search app in China could serve over “99% of queries,” in rare public comments about the controversial proposal.

Mr Pichai told a conference in San Francisco the plan was in the “very early” stages and may not progress.

Google’s possible return to China – a market it abandoned over censorship concerns – was…

Stephen Hawking: A life in pictures

At the age of 22, he was diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease. As he was preparing to marry his first wife Jane (pictured), doctors predicted he did not have long to live. They were married for 26 years and went on to have three children together.

It’ll be toasty

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A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the vehicle aims to show its potential by going progressively faster, year after year. In mid-2019, Bloodhoundwants to run above 500mph. In late 2019, the goal is to raise the existing world land speed record…

BBC environment correspondent Matt McGrath outlines five key takeaways from one of the most important reports on rising temperatures issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their study, on the impacts and possible methods of keeping temperatures from warming by more than 1.5C, has just been launched in South Korea.

It is ‘seriously alarming’ but surprisingly hopeful Image…

Children on the frontline of climate change

Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is home to 18 million people but is regularly swamped. The land is sinking and the sea is rising, as global warming causes the water to expand and the ice caps to melt.

Children at a primary school there were asked to draw pictures showing how they felt about the flooding. Some of the images they produced were particularly disturbing.

BBC helps bust Nepal chimp smuggling

A BBC investigation exposing the scale of chimpanzee trafficking last year has helped police in Nepal uncover a smuggling operation.

Even to a hardened detective the discovery was shocking: two baby chimpanzees, exhausted, hungry, and sucking their thumbs.

The animals had been captured in the wild in Nigeria and then flown thousands of miles to Nepal.

Soyuz crew back to Earth after malfunction

A capsule carrying two crew members from a Russian Soyuz rocket that malfunctioned on lift-off has landed safely in Kazakhstan.

Footage showed the rocket taking off, with the two crew members on board, before a problem was reported with its booster.

Search and rescue teams are now on the way to the capsule’s landing site.

Puffin patrol: The children saving Iceland’s pufflings

Puffins are now an endangered species, and important populations in Iceland are disappearing.

To make matters worse, on one island off the south coast, fledgling birds – known as pufflings – land in the local town by mistake and are at risk of being killed.

But some young volunteers are coming to their rescue.

Video by Jasmine Taylor-Coleman and Jemma Cox.

Supersonic Bloodhound hits cash roadblock

The project to race a car at more than 1,000mph has run into a financial roadblock with the company behind the venture going into administration.

The Bloodhound supersonic vehicle is all but built but needs a £25m investment if it is to break records on a dried-out lakebed in South Africa.

The administrators, FRP Advisory LLP, have already begun to talk to potential suitors.

But without the funds…

Chicken nuggets grown in a lab

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‘Reasons to be hopeful’ on 1.5C global temperature target

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Dutch scientist Dr Heleen de Coninck is one of the co-ordinating lead authors of the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on 1.5C which will be released next Monday in South Korea. Speaking to the BBC before the start of the negotiations in Incheon, she explained what her role involves and why, despite the enormous climate…

Europe’s new koalas arrive at Longleat

Five southern koalas have been flown half way round the world as part of plans to create a back-up population of the species away from their native Australia.

Although not an endangered species, they are considered to be vulnerable, and scientists will be studying them in their new home in the UK to see how to help them thrive.

Video Journalist: Laura Foster

Ukraine builds solar plant near Chernobyl

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South Africa’s ancient lost city of Kweneng rediscovered by lasers

Archaeologists using laser technology have rediscovered an ancient city outside South Africa’s commercial capital of Johannesburg.

The settlement, which dates back to the 15th Century, was home to up to 10,000 people from the Tswana ethnic group.

Their descendants are now fighting to have the city of Kweneng recognised as their homeland.

Video producers: Glenn Middleton, Nomsa Maseko and Vauldi…

Meet BTS backstage at their first UK show

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Drill rapper Daniel Olaloko jailed over county lines scam

A drill rapper from south London has been jailed for seven years for selling drugs in a county lines operation.

Trigga T, real name Daniel Olaloko, 19, admitted supplying heroin and crack cocaine to drug users in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

Another man, Peter Adebayo, was also sentenced to seven years for his involvement in the scam.

The term “county lines” refers to criminal gangs who get…