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Tanzania ferry disaster kills 100

At least 100 bodies are found after the overcrowded vessel overturned close to shore on Lake Victoria.
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Former rap mogul Suge to serve 28 years

Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight pleads no contest over a 2015 hit-and-run incident.
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Republicans sorry for 'offensive' Hindu ad

The ad, meant to celebrate a festival for elephant-headed deity Ganesha, offended Hindus instead.
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Premier League news conferences

Reaction to Thursday's Europa League results and a look ahead to the weekend's Premier League action.
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Whiskey-swigging McGregor launches tirade

Conor McGregor talks the bus incident, fighting for the love of it and more in a news conference with Khabib Nurmagomedov.
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Faith in Wada undermined - Radcliffe

Britain's Paula Radcliffe, other former and current athletes and anti-doping heads criticise the decision to reinstate Russia's anti-doping agency.
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'I tried to sell my own data'

Tech giants make billions from our data. Why can't we do the same?
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The origin of life on Earth?

These mountains existed long before the continents were formed
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The forgotten women of the Bauhaus

The German design movement was thought to be progressive, but was it really?
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Why you don’t really have a ‘type’

Your perceptions of beauty change faster than you think
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Turning around the lives of dementia patients

Confronting the stigma and isolation people with dementia face around the world
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Why is IVF so popular in Denmark?

It has the biggest proportion of babies born through assisted reproductive technology in the world
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The panda who didn’t know she had twins

A little sleight of hand is needed to keep both cubs alive
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British jihadists refusing to leave Syria

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The social network will no longer send employees to work at the offices of political campaigns.
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