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Blackened by the sun, stilted pitched-roof barns seemingly floated above the flower-strewn meadows, framed by the Matterhorn, Switzerland's famed pyramidical peak.

If you’ve even glanced at the headlines recently, you’ll probably have found yourself questioning the future of your very existence. On the back of the Covid-19 pandemic, we saw the international outbreaks of monkeypox.

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This year's Nobel Prize in Physics rewards research into quantum mechanics - the science that describes nature at the smallest scales. The award goes to Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger.

We were headed to the highest-altitude cash machine in the world, located at the Khunjerab Pass border between China and Pakistan in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan province. I wanted to show my children the stunning scenery our country has to offer. 

Archaeologists in Israel say 44 pure gold coins dating to the 7th Century have been found hidden in a wall at a nature reserve. Weighing about 170g, the hoard found at the Hermon Stream (Banias) site was hidden during the Muslim conquest of the area in 635, experts estimated.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to Sweden's Svante Paabo for his work on human evolution. The Prize committee said he achieved the seemingly impossible task of cracking the genetic code of one of our extinct relatives - Neanderthals.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.BBC PanoramaA company that has received billions of pounds in green energy subsidies from UK taxpayers is cutting down environmentally-important forests, a BBC Panorama investigation has found.

First it was chess - now top-level US poker and match fishing have been dogged by their own claims of cheating. Meanwhile, two fishermen have been accused of stuffing their catches with lead weights in order to win a tournament held on Lake Erie, Ohio.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.At least 125 people have died in a crush at an Indonesian football match that has become one of the world's worst stadium disasters.

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Leaders of a Jewish sect arrested in a raid on its jungle base in Mexico last week on suspicion of human trafficking and sex crimes have been freed. Their lawyer said the pair, who are foreign citizens, were released on Thursday night for lack of evidence.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has presented the latest prototype of a humanoid robot being developed by his Tesla electric car company. Optimus appeared on stage at a Silicon Valley event, where it waved to the audience and raised its knees.

Messages between Elon Musk and Twitter boss Parag Agrawal have been published in a court filing. They reveal how the pair's relationship, after a good start, went dramatically south.

Denmark and Greenland have formally agreed to launch a two-year investigation into historic birth control practices carried out for many years on Inuit Greenlanders by Danish doctors.

Astronomers have made a sparkling discovery in what was the very first full-colour image released from the new super space telescope James Webb. The picture, presented to the world in July by US President Joe Biden, shows a fantastically deep view of the cosmos, billions of years into the past.

How will Russia annex four regions that it has occupied, but only partially, when they are in the middle of a war zone?

Communities living close to oil fields, where gas is openly burned, are at elevated risk of leukaemia, a BBC News Arabic investigation has revealed. The UN told the BBC it considers these areas, in Iraq, to be "modern sacrifice zones" - where profit has been prioritised over human rights.

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Nasa and the SpaceX rocket company are to study the feasibility of running a private astronaut mission to extend the life of the Hubble telescope. The orbiting observatory, one of the greatest instruments in the history of science, is gradually losing altitude.

The first pictures of the new-born baby that flashed up on our family chat showed a charming, surprised-looking face with wide, slate-grey eyes – similar in shape to his father's brown eyes, but closer in colour to his mother's green.

Young non-smokers are being advised not to take up vaping. Researchers looked at the evidence and say while vaping is far safer than cigarettes, the long-term effects of vapes are still unknown.

To most of the world they are just amusing pictures of an adorable cartoon bunny sitting beside, or sometimes inexplicably amidst, a bowl of rice. But in China, where these images have been circulating on social media, they carry a deeper, and more serious meaning.

From a distance, the grey volcanic rock pyramids and their encircling stonewalls looked like something that Mother Nature had wrought herself.