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Elon Musk leads some of the most futuristic companies in the world

Elon Musk offers $100m prize for 'best' carbon tech

News Lens • 22 Jan

Aoife and her brother Dara at the beach in Waterford

Girl to be reunited with ball after it floated to Wales

Munster • 21 Jan

Muscovite Sofia Dorofeyeva has become an assistant train driver

On track: Russia lifts ban on female train drivers

News Lens • 21 Jan

Amanda Gorman was the youngest poet to recite at an inauguration

US inauguration: Who is young poet Amanda Gorman?

News Lens • 21 Jan

A resident does push-ups in May last year as a sanction for breaking large-scale social restriction regulations in Indonesia

Push-up punishment for foreigners without masks in Bali

News Lens • 20 Jan

There are exemptions for lighting up in isolated spots, at a distance of 10 metres or more from other smokers

Milan banning smoking in outdoor areas

News Lens • 20 Jan

Police are now investigating how the painting was stolen from the Doma Museum collection in Naples

Stolen Salvator Mundi copy found in Naples flat

News Lens • 19 Jan

Donald Trump holds a Bible while visiting St John's Church across from the White House after the area was cleared of people protesting the death of George Floyd

Key dates from Donald Trump's presidency

US Election 2020 • 20 Jan

Nearly 200,000 US flags have been set up for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden

'Field of Flags' set up ahead of Biden inauguration

News Lens • 19 Jan

The helium-filled balloon first took to the skies over London during protests against Donald Trump's visit in 2018

Trump baby blimp finds new home at London museum

News Lens • 18 Jan

Local GPs invited patients in the over-80s priority group to attend the cathedral for their first Covid-19 jab

English cathedral transformed into Covid vaccine centre

News Lens • 18 Jan

Alexei Navalny: From poisoning to prison

News Lens • 18 Jan

Donald Trump wrote on Twitter in 2018 that he had the 'absolute right' to pardon himself

Could Donald Trump pardon himself, and would it work?

News Lens • 18 Jan

Bitcoin has recently surged in value

Man not allowed search dump for £210m bitcoin he tossed

News Lens • 15 Jan

Quarantine officials are working to uncover Joe's origin

Doubts cast over origin of headline-grabbing pigeon

News Lens • 15 Jan

Image: PostNord

'A lot of Gretas' - Sweden to issue Thunberg stamps

News Lens • 14 Jan

Courtesy of Zoo Wroclaw

Rare Indian rhino born at Wroclaw zoo

News Lens • 14 Jan

Robotic arms are being used to collect samples without cross-infection between people

Robots take throat swabs to fight pandemic in China

News Lens • 13 Jan

Dire wolves were larger and heavier than the modern grey wolf (pictured)

Dire wolves far apart from other canines - study

News Lens • 13 Jan

The company began gathering different types of barks to analyse dogs' emotions in 2017

Collar can tell woof-ly what dog is saying, firm claims

News Lens • 12 Jan

Police officer tricked mob, led them away from Senate

News Lens • 12 Jan

The ad showed a man stalking a woman, until she removed her make-up (Stock photo)

Outrage in China over 'victim-blaming' make-up wipe ad

News Lens • 12 Jan

People dance in a busy park next to the Yangtze river

Wuhan breathes easy one year after first Covid death

News Lens • 11 Jan

The iguana jumped on the firefighter's helmet

Iguana escapes UK house fire on firefighter's helmet

News Lens • 08 Jan

The suspected grisly find turned out to be a potato (Pic: Northumbria Police)

'Human remains' find in UK turned out to be a potato

News Lens • 08 Jan

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