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British man who shouted BOMB lying on ground with armed police

Brit shouts BOMB at Schiphol airport and everything shuts down

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What happens when a Brit shouts BOMB at Schiphol airport in the Netherlands? Everything gets shut down, people are evacuated and the man is...
Shakespear new coin for 2016 announced by Royal Mint

New coins representing Shakespeare Potter and the Battle of Hastings for 2016

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New coins released in 2016 include those representing William Shakespeare, Beatrix Potter, the Battle of Hastings, the First World War, and the Great Fire of...
London Stock Exchange

FTSE 100 one of the worst performing global markets in 2015, down 4.9%

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The UK’s FTSE 100 index was one of the worst performing global markets in 2015 as plunging commodity prices triggered slumps in the value...
BBC DDoS attack on many of its websites Thursday

BBC websites suffered cyber attack and not technical issues

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Nearly all BBC websites suffered a cyber attack on the last day of the year - the problem was not caused by technical issues, which the...
Google robot BigDog and also Spot shelved by US military

Google robot BigDog too noisy and Spot no good either says US military

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The Google-owned Boston Dynamics' robot called BigDog, that the US military had intended to deploy, is too noisy. The smaller version - Spot -...
Comet Catalina visible in northern hemisphere in January

Comet Catalina giving you last chance to see it

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Comet Catalina, known technically as nC/2013 US10, will be visible for just a few days in the Northern Hemisphere as it passes Earth by,...
Mobile phone fossil

800 year old mobile phone has everybody talking about aliens

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If you came across an 800 year old mobile phone fossil you might wonder whether intelligent aliens visited us in the past, or somebody...
Fossils galore at Charmouth as people hunt for ammonites

Fossils galore at Charmouth on Jurassic Coast after cliff fall

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It’s fossils galore at Charmouth, a West Dorset village on the Jurassic Coast, after a major cliff fall, which keen collectors know means the...
Where the genes of Irish people come from

Irish come from all over the place ancient genomes show

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The Irish people come from all over the place, as far afield as the Middle East, Southern Europe and Eurasia, according to the ancient...
Oculus-Rift-VR-Game-lucky-tale

Oculus Rift VR headset will come with a free game when it launches

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When the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset goes on sale next year it will come with a free adventure game called ‘Lucky’s Tale’. The game...