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Twitter says it has stopped enforcing its policy on misleading information about coronavirus. According to the company's website, it stopped taking action against tweets breaching its Covid rules, on Wednesday, 23 November.

The first drug to slow the destruction of the brain in Alzheimer's has been heralded as momentous. The research breakthrough ends decades of failure and shows a new era of drugs to treat Alzheimer's - the most common form of dementia - is possible.

Image source, Supplied to University of AlbertaBBC NewsA huge meteorite that fell to Earth contains two minerals never seen before on our planet, scientists say.Canadian researchers said the rock was found in rural Somalia two years ago, but locals believe it is much older.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.BBC News, WashingtonA DNA test has reunited a Texas woman with her long-lost family and ended a mystery that lasted over 50 years.

Three stowaways have been found sat on the rudder of a ship after it completed an 11-day voyage from Nigeria, Spanish authorities say. They were taken to hospital at the tanker's destination in Gran Canaria and treated for moderate dehydration.

The US space agency's Orion capsule has reached a key milestone on its demonstration mission around the Moon. On Monday, it moved some 430,000km (267,000 miles) beyond the Earth - the furthest any spacecraft designed to carry humans has travelled.

The US government must drop its prosecution of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange because it is undermining press freedom, according to the media organisations that first helped him publish leaked diplomatic cables.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Waihiga Mwaura from Kenya's Citizen TV looks at how Kenyans are being scammed by trafficking cartels posing as job recruitment agents. If something looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Meet Loab. Loab was created entirely by artificial intelligence.

Image source, 3AW/Ben BlakeBBC News, SydneyA five-year-old Australian boy has survived being bitten, constricted and dragged into a swimming pool by a python about three times his size.

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Police in India have blamed rats for destroying nearly 200kg (440lbs) of cannabis seized from pedlars and kept in police stations. "Rats are tiny animals and they have no fear of the police. It's difficult to protect the drug from them," a court in Uttar Pradesh state has said.

An ancient gold coin proves that a third century Roman emperor written out of history as a fictional character really did exist, scientists say. The coin bearing the name of Sponsian and his portrait was found more than 300 years ago in Transylvania, once a far-flung outpost of the Roman empire.

Afghans are giving their hungry children medicines to sedate them - others have sold their daughters and organs to survive. In the second winter since the Taliban took over and foreign funds were frozen, millions are a step away from famine. "Our children keep crying, and they don't sleep.

Twelve people, including three women, have been flogged in front of thousands of onlookers at a football stadium in Afghanistan. The group were guilty of "moral crimes" including adultery, robbery and gay sex, a Taliban official told the BBC.

Thieves have stolen a hoard of Celtic gold coins worth about €1.6m (£1.4m) from a museum in Germany. Hundreds of coins were taken from the museum in Manching, Bavaria, in the middle of the night in a nine-minute raid, police said.

Manufacturing has resumed at the former Renault factory in Russia, which shut after the invasion of Ukraine and was later taken over by the government. Truck-maker Kamaz said the first cars would go on sale next month.

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Health and animal welfare campaigners concerned about the spread of superbugs in humans are calling for a ban on the overuse of antibiotics in farm animals. They say routinely using antibiotics in livestock can lead to bacteria becoming resistant and such 'superbugs' could spread to humans.

Space chiefs are to investigate whether electricity could be beamed wirelessly from space into millions of homes. The European Space Agency will this week likely approve a three-year study to see if having huge solar farms in space could work and be cost effective.

Canada is betting big on immigration to fill the gap in its economy left by aging Baby Boomers leaving the workforce - but not everyone is on board with bringing in so many people from abroad.

Image source, EPABBC NewsA T. rex skeleton which was expected to fetch up to $25m (£21m) at auction has been withdrawn after doubts were raised over where parts of it had come from.

Nasa's Artemis spacecraft has arrived at the Moon. The Orion capsule swept 130km (80 miles) above the lunar surface, and it will now begin to enter a larger orbit.

Multiple students in a primary school in the Australian city of Sydney have been injured after a classroom science experiment went wrong. Reports say at least one student was rushed via ambulance to a hospital with serious burns. Others are believed to have suffered superficial burns.

Image source, Henry Aldridge & SonA badge given by a steward to a close female friend aboard the Titanic in "a real life Jack and Rose" shortly before the ship sank is expected to fetch up to £60,000 at auction.