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Michael Lau, now 63, speaks with a slight tremor as he describes how he witnessed one of the most deadly landslides to occur in Hong Kong in the past 50 years.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Construction of a spaceport in the far north of the UK could finally get under way next month after planning permission was granted.

As long as sex work has existed, so have efforts to end it. John Oliver explains why criminalizing the trade hasn’t helped the most vulnerable people involved, and why we should start listening to those at the center of the conversation: sex workers. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Sub

A stowaway who found himself on a legendary Antarctic expedition that ended in shipwreck has been remembered as a bid to find the vessel gains pace.

"I just want to hit the bed," R Praggnanandhaa said early on Monday after defeating Magnus Carlsen, the highest-ranking chess player in the world, at the Airthings Masters, an online rapid tournament.The frail-looking 16-year-old boy from India's southern city of Chennai is no stranger to success.

But a year is actually considered relatively "long term" when it comes to vaccine safety. This week marks the anniversary of the first delivery of Covid-19 vaccines under the Covax scheme - as well as being more than 14 months since the first dose was given.

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This feels very much like the end of an era. In November 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, we believed that the old division of the world into East versus West was just history.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Russian forces have launched a military assault on neighbouring Ukraine, crossing its borders and bombing military targets near big cities.

New data from a scientific "accident" has suggested that life may actually flash before our eyes as we die. A team of scientists set out to measure the brainwaves of an 87-year-old patient who had developed epilepsy.

Some apps in the virtual-reality metaverse are "dangerous by design", the NSPCC has warned in response to a BBC News investigation. The children's charity said it was "shocked and angry" at the findings.

A chunk of Mars, some of the space rock that splattered a quiet English town and a dog kennel pierced by an object that came out of the sky.All three items go under the hammer on Wednesday when London auction house Christie's holds its annual sale of rare and unusual meteorites.

Russian president Vladimir Putin's late-night televised speech from the Kremlin, just hours after talks of a summit, was laced with anger, historical grievances and challenges to the West, The BBC's Sarah Rainsford and Paul Adams in Kyiv give their verdict.

Glow-in-the dark beaches. Billions of trees planted in a country dominated by the desert. Levitating trains. A fake moon. A car-free, carbon-free city built in a straight line over 100 miles long in the desert.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into two rebel-held regions in eastern Ukraine, after recognising them as independent states.

Donald Trump's social-media platform, Truth Social, has launched, in a limited form, on the US Apple App Store. The app had similarities to Twitter, commentators noted - Mr Trump was banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube last year.

The Zoom call had about 40 people on it - or that's what the people who had logged on thought. The all-staff meeting at the glamorous design agency had been called to welcome the growing company's newest recruits.

American endurance athlete Camille Herron has broken her own women's world record in winning the USA Track and Field 100-mile Championships in Nevada.

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As the conflict in eastern Ukraine intensifies, Britain and the US suspect Russia of planning "false flag" attacks to create an excuse for an invasion.

Scientists say that a rapid drop in emissions because of Covid played a key role in record rainfall in China in 2020. The decline in greenhouse gases and small particles called aerosols caused atmospheric changes that intensified the downpours.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that his country's forces will leave Mali after almost a decade of fighting alongside local troops. Officials said the decision followed a breakdown in diplomatic relations, amid growing hostility from the Mali's new governing military junta.