14 February 2017
A new robot invented in Oregon is less likely to fall over than other robots because it walks like an ostrich.
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An Aberdeenshire council has apologised for planting dozens of trees in the middle of a village football pitch.
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The head of the Lithuanian Tourist Bureau has quit after it was found to be using pictures of other countries in its advertising, under the slogan ‘Real is Beautiful’.
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A survey of 2,000 Britons has found that 77% of them have had exactly the same thing for lunch every day for the last nine months.
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Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, the president of Turkmenistan and a former dentist, has been re-elected with 98% of the vote. In 2012, he won only 97%.