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Swimming fan spots 'suspicious mole'
Australian Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton has thanked a spectator who spotted a "suspicious looking mole" on his chest during the Rio Olympics. The spectator emailed the swimming team doctors, suggesting Horton get the mole checked out, leading to minor surgery to have the growth removed from his skin. "Good call," Horton wrote on Instagram. "Very good call."
Escaped emu causes chaos
Police in Cape Canaveral, Florida, spent more than an hour trying to catch an emu. The bird, named Taco, jumped over the four-foot fence around its enclosure after it was spooked by a stray dog, and headed for a local Irish pub. It's the second time Taco has escaped: in 2012, police spent two hours trying to catch the bird as it ran along roads at up to 30mph.
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World’s oldest rock art discovered in IndonesiaUnder the Radar Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence erupted in Europe
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Claude Code: the viral AI coding app making a splash in techThe Explainer Engineers and noncoders alike are helping the app go viral
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‘Human trafficking isn’t something that happens “somewhere else”’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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China’s Xi targets top general in growing purgeSpeed Read Zhang Youxia is being investigated over ‘grave violations’ of the law
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Panama and Canada are negotiating over a crucial copper mineIn the Spotlight Panama is set to make a final decision on the mine this summer
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Why Greenland’s natural resources are nearly impossible to mineThe Explainer The country’s natural landscape makes the task extremely difficult
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Iran cuts internet as protests escalateSpeed Reada Government buildings across the country have been set on fire
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US nabs ‘shadow’ tanker claimed by RussiaSpeed Read The ship was one of two vessels seized by the US military
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How Bulgaria’s government fell amid mass protestsThe Explainer The country’s prime minister resigned as part of the fallout
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Femicide: Italy’s newest crimeThe Explainer Landmark law to criminalise murder of a woman as an ‘act of hatred’ or ‘subjugation’ but critics say Italy is still deeply patriarchal
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro behind bars after appeals run outSpeed Read He will serve 27 years in prison
