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Despite the realistic skin colour, nobody was fooled by the silicone limb

Italian tries to dodge Covid jab using fake arm

An Italian man who wanted a coronavirus vaccine certificate without actually having the jab tried to play the system by presenting health workers with a ...

News Lens • 6 hrs

Your Covid questions answered - booster vaccines

There is a lot of news about Covid-19 recently, and many elements are changing regularly. With that in mind, we asked our Instagram followers what ...

News Lens • 12 hrs

Visitors look at Banksy's murals during a preview of the 'World of Banksy' exhibition

'World of Banksy' exhibition opening in Milan

Milan's central train station is to play host a "World of Banksy" exhibition, featuring reproductions of provocative works by the British street artist in something ...

News Lens • 02 Dec

Archaeologists believe that the remains are of a man aged 18-22 at the time of his death

Peru archaeologists find mummy up to 1,200 years old

Archaeologists in Peru working on a site in the outskirts of the capital Lima have unearthed a mummy believed to be between 800 and 1,200 ...

News Lens • 01 Dec

The man was sitting on the stern of his capsized boat (Pic: Japan Coast Guard)

Man, 69, survives 22 hours on capsized boat off Japan

A 69-year-old man survived 22 hours lost at sea off southern Japan, sat on the stern of his capsized boat and cloaked in a tarpaulin ...

News Lens • 01 Dec

The surgeon said there had been a flaw in the chain of control in the operating theatre

Austrian surgeon fined for amputating wrong leg

An Austrian court has fined a surgeon for amputating the wrong leg of an elderly patient, a spokesperson for the tribunal in the northern city ...

News Lens • 01 Dec

The dome of the 'cathedral' remains unfinished

Priest vows to complete Spain's 'scrap cathedral'

For over 60 years, former monk Justo Gallego had been building a cathedral out of scrap materials on the outskirts of Madrid, a project he ...

News Lens • 30 Nov

Anand Prakash Chouksey pictured outside the replica Taj Mahal he built for his wife.

Indian man builds Taj Mahal replica home for wife

A lovestruck and historically minded Indian husband has emulated the world's most famous display of marital devotion by building his wife a replica of the ...

News Lens • 29 Nov

Ruff and ready: Competitors in the Surf Dog Festival.

Dogs lap up the waves in Surf Dog Festival

Dogs reigned over the waves in the Brazilian coastal city of Natal during the Surf Dog Festival.

News Lens • 29 Nov

The vehicles can only carry two passengers at a time and are confined to the city's southern Yizhuang area

First 'robotaxis' enter service in Beijing

It looks like a normal car but the white taxi has nobody driving it, and communicates with customers digitally to obtain directions and take payment.

News Lens • 26 Nov

The road is named "The Path of God" in ancient Egyptian mythology

Egypt unveils Pharaonic 'Rams Road' at Karnak Temple

Egypt has unveiled a road lined with hundreds of ram-headed sphinx statues dating back more than 3,000 years, in a grandiose night-time ceremony at Karnak ...

News Lens • 26 Nov

A clearer picture will emerge when India completes its Covid-delayed census

For the first time, India has more women than men

India has more women than men for the first time on record, according to government data that also showed a slowing birthrate in the world's ...

News Lens • 25 Nov

Volunteers placed the first 300 acacia, lemon tree and cypress saplings into the ground

Hope takes root as trees planted in war-torn Iraq city

Iraqi volunteers started planting the first of thousands of trees in war-ravaged Mosul today, hoping to green the former Islamic State group stronghold.

News Lens • 25 Nov

Medical workers in an intensive care department of a Covid ward at the Ust-Abakan District Hospital in Abakan in south-central Russia

Russian doctors invite anti-vaxxers to Covid wards

Leading Russian doctors have invited celebrities and politicians with anti-vaccine views to visit Covid-19 red zones in hospitals and see for themselves the effects of ...

News Lens • 24 Nov

Labour MP Stella Creasy has regularly brought her baby son to debates

British MP given parliamentary baby ban

A British MP has called for reforms after a parliamentary official rebuked her for bringing her sleeping baby to a debate.

News Lens • 24 Nov

The Met has said it would "lend works from Benin" to Nigerian museums

Museum returns art looted under British colonial rule

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has officially returned three works of art to Nigeria that were looted in the 19th century, as museums make ...

News Lens • 23 Nov

The £79m project was the biggest restoration since the clock tower was built in 1859

London's Big Ben to show fresh face to ring in New Year

Big Ben's dials will emerge from a shroud of scaffolding in time for the world-famous clock to perform its most important annual role - ringing ...

News Lens • 23 Nov

Boris Johnson said 'no Whitehall civil servant could conceivably have come up with Peppa'

Johnson hails 'pure genius' Peppa Pig

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson enthused about a visit to Peppa Pig World and pretended to be a speeding car during an occasionally baffling speech ...

News Lens • 22 Nov

The 45-year-old was undergoing further treatment but was still in a coma (file pic)

Indian man found alive after night in morgue freezer

An Indian man declared dead after a road accident shocked his relatives when they found him still breathing despite a night in the freezer of ...

News Lens • 21 Nov

Researchers made the conclusions after analysing studies that assessed the effectiveness of global public health measures

Face masks, social distancing still needed - experts

Social distancing, wearing face masks and handwashing should continue alongside vaccines to protect people from Covid-19, experts have suggested.

News Lens • 19 Nov

Two 400-litre bioreactors produce as much oxygen as two hectares of bushland, according to Young Henrys

Green beer? Brewing up new solutions to climate change

A brewery in Australia is hoping to help fight climate change one beer at a time, with the help of two green bioreactors filled with ...

News Lens • 18 Nov

Tis the season as Christmas Island crabs mass migrate

Roads on Christmas Island have been closed as they turn scarlet with thousands of red crabs emerging from the forest to begin their annual migration ...

News Lens • 18 Nov

The cubs were born on 10 August of this year

Fota announces names of cheetah cubs born this year

Fota Wildlife Park has announced the names of the five Northern Cheetah cubs who were born there on 10 August.

News Lens • 17 Nov

The book had accumulated late fines of £2,847

Book returned to Scottish library after 73 years

A book has been returned to a Scottish library more than 73 years late.

News Lens • 17 Nov

Tourists in an electric cart during their trip to Jordan's ancient city of Petra

E-buggies replace horse carts at Jordan's Petra

Horses and mules have long drawn tourist carriages through Jordan's ancient city of Petra, but animal rights concerns are driving a project to start replacing ...

News Lens • 17 Nov