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A study has found that only one in four men aged between 45 and 54 meet the World Health Organization's recommended 150 minutes of exercise per week

Campaign to encourage older men to exercise regularly

News Lens • 3 hrs

Katrín Jakobsdóttir was taking part in the interview with the Washington Post when the interview struck

Icelandic PM keeps cool during earthquake interruption

News Lens • 3 hrs

Two weeks of spiralling protests in Nigeria

News Lens • 4 hrs

The draft text lists "steak", "sausage", "escalope", "burger" and "hamburger" as examples of banned words

Farmers seeking 'veggieburger' label ban in Europe

News Lens • 19 Oct

'No normal Halloween' - so what are your alternatives?

News Lens • 19 Oct

A swing overlooking a lake in the swing state of Ohio

US Election: What are swing states?

US Election 2020 • 19 Oct

An absolute majority of at least 270 electoral college votes is needed to win the presidency

US Election: What is the Electoral College?

US Election 2020 • 16 Oct

The statues disappeared in the city of Malmo

Reward offered in Sweden for 'stolen police officers'

Europe • 16 Oct

The site faces destruction due to heavy rains and years of neglect

Yemeni mud-brick palace latest heritage site at risk

World • 16 Oct

Dr Tony Holohan said employers should take responsibility for facilitating their staff to work from home

Work from home, reduce socialising - NPHET

Coronavirus • 16 Oct

Machu Picchu has been closed to tourists since March

Machu Picchu reopens for single tourist

News Lens • 13 Oct

No normal Halloween, masks not visors - NPHET briefing

Coronavirus • 13 Oct

This European Southern Observatory illustration depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it is sucked in by a supermassive black hole

Star swamped by black hole undergoes spaghettification

News Lens • 12 Oct

The Vatican claims Carlo Acutis interceded from heaven in 2013 to cure a Brazilian boy suffering from a rare pancreatic disease

Teenager one step from becoming first millennial saint

World • 12 Oct

A mosquito sucking blood

Scientists learn why human blood attracts mosquitoes

News Lens • 12 Oct

The National Sovereignty Monument in the northern part of Nicosia in the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Northern Cyprus: breakaway state backed by Turkey

World • 09 Oct

A Yemeni child from a family who was affected by more than 4-years of conflicts, sits on a food ration received from the World Food Programme

World Food Programme: Five things to know

World • 09 Oct

New research suggests that some babies now have shorter faces, smaller jaws and extra bones in their legs and feet

Scientist say babies being born without wisdom teeth

News Lens • 09 Oct

No part of the QAnon theory is based on fact

QAnon crackdown: What are social media platforms doing?

News Lens • 08 Oct

Chester Zoo says the new arrival is 'bright and alert' and is suckling well from mum

Baby orangutan born despite negative pregnancy tests

News Lens • 08 Oct

Muhammad Ikram has spent years honing his snooker skills

Born without arms, Pakistan snooker player masters game

World • 08 Oct

Members of the Mennonite community in Ascension, near El Sabinal in Chihuahua

Mexican Mennonites learned of pandemic online

News Lens • 07 Oct

A member of the White House cleaning staff sanitizes the James S Brady Press Briefing Room

Which White House staff members have Covid-19?

News Lens • 07 Oct

Image: CHP - Valley Division Air Operations

California firefighters lifted to safety by helicopter

News Lens • 06 Oct

Private pools, gourmet food in 'gilded cage' quarantine

News Lens • 05 Oct

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