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The White House says that Joe Biden ordered that a new high-altitude “object” that appeared in the skies above Alaskan waters to be shot down by US fighters.John Kirby, NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications, told a Friday briefing that the object was floating above US territory at 40,000ft and was a “reasonable threat” to the safety of civilian air traffic. Is this an international incident or just a #spyballoon doing espionage like we always do to each other?

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When Britain left the European Union on 31 January 2020, Boris Johnson, then prime minister, proclaimed that Britain would “rediscover the muscles that we have not used for decades”. What has actually happened in the past 3 years. How is #brexit doing?

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A toddler has become Britain's youngest #Mensa member aged just three - reading fluently and counting in seven languages.Teddy Hobbs managed to gain entry to the exclusive organisation for the intellectual 'elite' aged just three years and nine months.The child prodigy from Portishead, Somerset, can already count to 100 in six non-native languages, including Mandarin, Welsh, French, Spanish and German.Teddy, now four, taught himself to read aged just two years and four months - and is now capable of even reading Harry Potter books, when his parents allow him.He even likes to relax - with a word search.

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Lucile Randon — a French nun known as Sister André — was living at the Sainte-Catherine-Laboure nursing home in the Southern French city of Toulon at the time of her death. A spokesperson for the nursing home confirmed to French media she passed in her sleep. She was the world's #oldestlivingperson What was her secret?

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Dozens of people bared their briefs for London's annual No Trousers Tube Ride on Sunday.

Trouserless passengers took to the Tube as part of the annual No Pants Subway Ride - a global event that began in New York in 2002. This year's event was the first since the pandemic began, and was the group's first trip on the Elizabeth line. Funny or in bad taste? Mark and Pete opine.





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The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners found it is 13 times more common for an employee to commit fraud compared to an owner or executive. However, the median loss through fraud committed by owners or executives is 10 times larger than fraud committed by employees. But why do they do it? Mark and Pete lift this lid on this expensive conundrum.

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The UK Prime Minister RIshi Sunakvwants to put maths at the heart of education in Britain... a calculation that may be more difficult than he realises...

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A retired commanding officer has accused Prince Harry of "turning against" his military family after "having trashed his birth family". In his memoir, the Duke of Sussex describes killing 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan as "chess pieces taken off the board". Mark and Pete break it down.



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The martyrs of Small Heath, a football story,

For thousands of years, predictions of the apocalypse have come and gone. But with dangers arising from nuclear war and climate change, does the planet need to at least begin contemplating the worst? When the world rang in 2022, few would have expected the year to feature the US president speaking of the risk of doomsday, following "We have not faced the prospect of #armageddon since Kennedy". The Bible weighs in on what to expect at the end of the world...