The lowest temperature ever found on Earth has been recorded in Antarctica.
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The army has been called in to assist 100 fire fighters on Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester dealing with the worst English wildfire in living memory.
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The Public Accounts Committee estimates the EU divorce bill will be at least £10 billion higher than Theresa May claims.
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Scientists at the University of California are using petri dishes to grow miniature Neanderthal brains half a centimetre across.
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In 2018, 85,000 people applied to be in Love Island, more than twice as many as applied for Oxbridge.
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A six-year-old boy fired a gun in an Indiana branch of IKEA, after a customer left it lying on a sofa.
The Royal Navy is half the size it was in 1990.
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Black holes remain theoretical and have never been observed.
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43% of the saline solution used in the US is made in Puerto Rico.
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Japanese researchers have created a drinkable alcohol made from trees.
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A rat in India has been found dead after breaking into an ATM and eating $18,000-worth of cash.
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The Spanish company that owns Heathrow, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton airports is relocating from Oxford to the Netherlands.
The world’s latest miniature computer is smaller than a grain of sand.
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The Chinese government supports yoga as long as it doesn’t involve any chanting or meditation.
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An on-going project in India has so far documented 780 languages written in 68 different scripts.
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In 2017, the US imported three million tons of seafood – more than at any other time in its history.
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The 30th annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest has been won by an English bulldog from Minnesota called Zsa Zsa.
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Swiss authorities have launched a safe sex campaign by giving away 400,000 coded condoms that offer the chance to win free muesli or a new lawnmower.
Concrete is stronger if carrots are added to it.
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Only one manager of the 32 national teams in the 2018 World Cup is black.
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Over 95% of street robberies and burglaries in the UK currently go unsolved.
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A French teenager visiting her mother in Canada was imprisoned in the US for two weeks after accidentally jogging across the border on the beach.
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A New York man has carved a barstool from a tree using only his teeth and nails.
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Prince William is the first British royal ever to pay an official visit to Israel.
Cases of syphilis in the US have quadrupled since 2000.
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Russian workers have been undergoing training to teach them how to smile for the 2018 World Cup.
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500 students and staff were evacuated from a university in Melbourne following a suspected gas leak that turned out to be a rotting durian fruit.
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Kim Jong-Un has a portable privy, a toilet car in his motorcade, an emergency chamber pot in his Mercedes and a mobile commode for mountainous terrain.
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Engineers at UC Berkeley have built a solar powered box that produces practical quantities of drinking water out of thin air at night, even in the Arizona desert.
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Although drawing White House salaries, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump made at least $82 million in outside income last year.
The leading candidate in the San Francisco mayoral election is a woman called London Breed.
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An analysis of 730,000 Norwegian men has revealed that IQ scores have been steadily falling since 1975.
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A video of a press conference at the G7 summit has spawned a conspiracy theory that Justin Trudeau wears false eyebrows.
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86% of Irish drivers who have been disqualified fail to hand in their licence as required by law and 13% of them go on driving regardless.
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Jaguar Land Rover, which has been wholly owned by Tata Motors of India since 2008, is to move production of the Land Rover Discovery to Slovakia.
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Donald Trump rips official papers into small pieces when he’s done with them, so White House officials have to spend hours sticking them back together again.
40% of people on so-called apprenticeship schemes have no idea they’re classed as apprentices.
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A British company has achieved a world first by heating a nuclear reactor to the temperature of the centre of the Sun.
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A CIA intelligence report says North Korea won’t give up its nuclear weapons but might be willing to open a burger joint in Pyongyang as a gesture of goodwill.
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A Harvard-backed US company claims to be able to suck carbon dioxide cheaply from the air and combine it with hydrogen to produce petrol, diesel and jet fuel.
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39% of all the fresh water in the US is used to cool power stations. MIT scientists are working on a way to turn the steam this produces back into drinking water.
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Maison Mumm has produced the first zero-gravity champagne. It is forced out of the bottle as foam and has to be caught by the astronaut in a special glass.
US and Chinese scientists have found the world’s oldest animal footprints in China, dated at more than half a billion years old.
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Sir Harold Wilson’s widow, Mary, has died at the age of 102. Lady Wilson of Rievaulx started her working life as a shorthand typist in a soap factory.
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To make its aircraft lighter and stronger, Emirates is planning to remove all the windows and replace them with optics that are ‘better than the real thing’.
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The Foreign Office has warned British travellers to leave their Vicks vapour rub at home: it is illegal in Japan, Singapore and Greece and could get them arrested.
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A librarian in Hong Kong has been arrested for fraudulently reporting people’s library cards as lost so they have would have to return books she wanted to read.
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With a ‘somewhat mindboggling’ new technique, Stanford University researchers have transformed a millilitre of blood into 50,000 brain cells in just three weeks.
This year, for the first time since the contest started, Miss America contestants will no longer parade in swimsuits.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel is to face German MPs in the first ever ‘Prime Minister’s Questions’ held in the Bundestag.
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British scientists have mapped the genomes of 3,000 dangerous bacteria, including one from Sir Alexander Fleming’s nose.
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Australian scientists have developed a nutritious broccoli powder that can be sprinkled on coffee or hidden in children’s meals.
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The US Army has developed a mechanical ‘third arm’ for soldiers that takes the weight off their guns so they don’t get so tired when firing them.
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Four new ‘all-weather’ £150 million F-35 warplanes bought by the RAF from the US have been unable to fly to Britain because of bad weather over the Atlantic.
Montenegro is a member of NATO but has no fighter planes.
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Two million disposable coffee cups are sent to landfill in Ireland every day.
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A US couple have told the New York Post their baby son’s first word was ‘Alexa’.
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A new app offers a foolproof way to fall asleep, listening to the BBC announcer who does the Shipping Forecast reading excerpts from the EU’s GDPR legislation.
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After receiving an experimental form of immunotherapy, a 49-year-old breast cancer patient given three months to live has gone into complete remission.
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A recent study in Boston found that the average wealth of a white family was $247,500 and that of the average African American one was $8.