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Single-shot Covid-19 vaccine 'safe and effective'

US regulators say Johnson and Johnson's single-shot vaccine is safe, and could be approved in days.
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US to release declassified Khashoggi report

Joe Biden plans to speak to the Saudi king as the report into the journalist's murder goes public.
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What's in Biden's $2tn Covid stimulus plan?

Democrats are working on a massive package of measures to help the US through the pandemic.
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Brilliant England fightback limits India lead to 33 - listen to The Cricket Social

India collapse to 145 all out, a first-innings lead of 33 over England in the third day-night Test in Ahmedabad.
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Fighting patriarchy & poverty - India's new generation

Women's sport in India is changing, as an emboldened new generation of athletes combat poverty and patriarchy on their way to success.
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Woods will not face criminal charges over crash

Police say the crash was "purely an accident" after the golfing champion flipped his car on Tuesday.
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The last European horse fishermen

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The 'Ghost Army' that helped win WW2

How optical illusions became a weapon
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How to fight the 'untitling' of women

How the ‘gender respect gap’ affects professional titles
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The battery invented 120 years too soon

Thomas Edison's battery that generates hydrogen is at last finding a use
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Hit TV show Frasier set to return after 20 years

Kelsey Grammer will return, but it is not known if other cast members will too
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Descendants of 'last warrior' vow to carry on

The last male member of the Juma indigenous group in the Brazilian Amazon has died
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'So many people have told me I've given them confidence'

Brands are starting to embrace social media influencers with disabilities
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Covax vaccine plan: What is it and how will it work?

A global scheme aims to ensure people in poorer countries get vaccinated against Covid.

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