Milky Way's secrets revealed by massive space probe map
The Gaia space probe unveiled its latest discoveries on Monday in its quest to map the Milky Way in unprecedented detail, surveying nearly two million stars and revealing mysterious "starquakes" which sweep across the fiery giants like vast tsunamis.
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Revellers on cloud nine at cannabis festival as Thailand relaxes law
The pungent smell of smoke was unmistakable as revellers celebrated under the stars at a major Thai cannabis festival following the kingdom's decision to begin relaxing the laws around the drug.
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'Magnificent' Mary Kom out of Commonwealth Games with knee injury
India's boxing queen Mary Kom will miss this year's Commonwealth Games after limping out of the ring in a trial event, but her coach on Monday said she will "make a comeback".
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Plays about Black artists and Wall St are big winners on Broadway
A musical about a Black and queer author won a top prize at the Broadway awards in New York on Sunday, while a play about Lehman Brothers and a Michael Jackson biopic also triumphed at the Oscars of the theater.
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Ukraine's desperate farmers trapped by grain blockade
Nadiia Ivanova should have been harvesting her crop soon. But so far on her farm in southern Ukraine, she has only managed to collect bombshells.
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UK economy shrinks for second month in a row
British economic output declined for a second month in a row in April, weighed down by decades-high inflation, official data showed Monday.
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Hong Kong school quarantine request hints at Xi handover visit
A Hong Kong primary school is looking for pupils to spend a week in hotel quarantine ahead of next month's handover anniversary, fuelling speculation a strict "closed-loop" system will allow Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit.
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Beijing tightens Covid restrictions over 'ferocious' bar cluster
Beijing started a new round of mass testing in its most populous downtown district on Monday after a rapidly spreading outbreak linked to a bar saw Covid rules tightened again in the capital.
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Liverpool agree 75mn-euro deal for Benfica striker Nunez
Liverpool have reached a deal with Benfica to buy the Uruguay striker Darwin Nunez for an initial 75 million euros (£64 million), the Portuguese club said on Monday.
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Ex-PM says Putin 'out of it', Ukraine war could last two years
He was Vladimir Putin's first prime minister but Mikhail Kasyanov never in his worst nightmares imagined that his former boss would unleash a full-scale war on Ukraine.
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