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• Super Bowl 2017: How to Tailgate Like a NASA Astronaut

  04-02-2017 13:00
  
  When you're making munchies for Sunday's Super Bowl party, consider the challenge astronauts face in space: In a zero-gravity environment where much of the food is freeze-dried, how can you make good football-watching food?
  
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• 100,000 may have died but there is still no justice over Indonesian air pollution

  04-02-2017 11:00
  
  A fightback against the perpetrators is underway, but litigation is proving unappealing and burdensome for victimsIt started with a mild cough. Muhanum Anggriawati was just 12 years old when the cough began, transforming within weeks into a violent hacking that brought up a yellowish-black liquid. At the end of last year, her father told an Indonesian court how she had been taken into hospital, and treated with oxygen therapy, then with a defibrillator. Nothing, however, had worked. After a week
  
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• Super Bowl: Astronaut throws football '564,644 yards'

  04-02-2017 10:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nasa releases a video of the ISS crew preparing to watch the Super Bowl from 250 miles above Earth.
  
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• Is the Swedish deputy PM trolling Trump with this all-female photo?

  04-02-2017 08:34
  
  Isabella Lovin signs bill surrounded by women colleagues, apparently a reference photos of Trump signing bills surrounded by menSweden’s deputy prime minister, Isabella Lövin, has published a photograph of herself signing a climate bill surrounded by her closest female colleagues, apparently mocking a photo of US president Donald Trump.Lövin, who also serves as environment and development aid minister, is seated in the photo at a desk as she signs the bill under the watchful eye
  
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• Birds of Paradise: The Ultimate Quest review – a paddle through the jungle, by wheelchair

  04-02-2017 08:00
  
  Explorer Benedict Allen and Frank Gardner hop in a dugout canoe to chase rare birds – and revisit old haunts – in Papua New GuineaFrank Gardner, the BBC security correspondent, is a keen birdwatcher. He wants to see birds of paradise in the wild. But the wild for birds of paradise is very wild: Papua New Guinea. Not easy in the wheelchair Frank has been using since being shot by al-Qaida terrorists in Saudi Arabia in 2004.Step forward explorer Benedict Allen, who knows PNG rather wel
  
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• Riding the storm, two birds of marvellous otherness

  04-02-2017 06:30
  
  Borth y Gest, Snowdonia I’ve seen glaucous gulls squabbling around rubbish-tips on Baffin Island, but never before in WalesRecent winter storm-surges from the cold north brought with them surprising visitors. Walking the coast path westwards I looked up and studied a clamorous swarm of gulls, vivid against a gunmetal sky. One, singled out in my glass, was bulkier than its companions, translucent somehow in the subdued light, its long wings white-fringed – a glaucous gull, Larus hyper
  
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• Swedish deputy prime minister apparently mocks Trump with all-female photo

  04-02-2017 03:51
  
  Isabella Lovin signs bill surrounded by women colleagues, apparently a reference photos of Trump signing bills surrounded by menSweden’s deputy prime minister, Isabella Lövin, has published a photograph of herself signing a climate bill surrounded by her closest female colleagues, apparently mocking a photo of US president Donald Trump.Lövin, who also serves as environment and development aid minister, is seated in the photo at a desk as she signs the bill under the watchful eye
  
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• Cliffs collapse at Hawaii volcano, stopping 'firehose' flow

  04-02-2017 00:04
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A section of sea cliff above a massive "firehose" lava flow on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano has collapsed and splashed into the ocean as tourists and geologists watched.
  
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