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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.BBC News Climate & ScienceIt is a biological mission that began with a chance encounter with a lemur that was picking its nose.

Merced County sits in the middle of California's Central Valley. For as far as the eye can see, there are identical rows of crops, with the occasional farmhouse or family home.

Pope Francis has warned priests and nuns about the dangers of watching pornography online, saying it "weakens the priestly heart". The Pope, 86, was responding to a question about how digital and social media should be best used, at a session in the Vatican.

Jahrah, a rubber-tapper reportedly in her 50s, had made her way to work at a rubber plantation on Sunday morning. She was reported missing after failing to return that night, and search parties sent out to find her. A day later villagers found a python with what appeared to be a large stomach.

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Author Salman Rushdie has lost vision in one eye and the use of one hand following his stabbing in New York in August, his agent says.

Images of students wearing so-called "anti-cheating hats" during college exams have gone viral on social media in the Philippines, sparking amusement. Students at one college in Legazpi City were asked to wear headgear that would prevent them peeking at others' papers.

US chess grandmaster Hans Niemann is suing rival player Magnus Carlsen for at least $100m after the Norwegian world champion accused him of cheating. In the latest move in a scandal that has rocked the chess world, Niemann is also suing website Chess.

The devastation of the plague pandemic left such an incredible genetic mark on humanity that it's still affecting our health nearly 700 years later. Up to half of people died when the Black Death swept through Europe in the mid-1300s.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Africa correspondent, BBC NewsNew images taken from space at night starkly show how the conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has left a population facing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

Runners have told BBC Scotland they are "gutted" after seeing their personal bests invalidated because the Great Scottish Run was 150m short – for the second time in six years. Organisers admitted there had been a major error in this year's 10km course at the event in Glasgow.

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If you are the type of person who is forever forgetting to charge your wireless headphones, help may finally be on hand. It comes as the first commercially available solar-powered headphones are now on sale.

In a gym in Ireland's County Leitrim, Bernard Leddy rocked back on his heels to measure up his target. Then his hips pivoted, his weight shifted forward, and he used a cudgel to deliver a thunderous blow to the jaw of a rubber sparring dummy.

They are the husband and wife team behind one the most successful Covid vaccines, yet in the UK they are barely known. Professors Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci co-founded the German company BioNTech in 2008, exploring new technology involving messenger RNA (mRNA), to treat cancer.

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Scientists have unravelled a mystery surrounding one of nature's most incredible journeys. Every year, eels leave European rivers to travel in an epic migration to the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic to breed for a single time, then die.

The mosaic, measuring 20 x 6m (65.5 x 20ft), was found under a building in Rastan near Homs, which was held by rebels in the civil war until 2018. Showing mythical scenes including the Trojan and Amazon wars, it is said to be the rarest of its kind.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965m (£869m) in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. The families of eight victims, and an FBI agent who responded to the attack, had sought at least $550m in the defamation trial in Connecticut.

Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong. They say their "mini-brain" can sense and respond to its environment.

Elon Musk has denied reports he spoke to Vladimir Putin before posting a Twitter poll with his suggestions for ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ian Bremmer, head of the Eurasia Group political risk consultancy, alleged that Mr Musk had personally told him about the conversation with Mr Putin.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.BBC Global Disinformation Unit, BBC News Arabic and BBC Eye InvestigationsDisplaced families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70% of the proceeds, a BBC investigation found.

In the warm air of an early-June morning, Jose Antonio Peña walks along a channel of gushing water in the Sierra Nevada of southern Spain. Traversing the rocky terrain and ducking beneath boughs of pine, he eventually reaches a grassy meadow on his left.