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How India runs the world's biggest election – The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service
India will host the world’s biggest election this year when nearly one billion people will vote. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM Organisers have vowed to set up polling stations within 2km of every citizen, but India’s vast size means this will be a challenge. The country’s 15 million election officials must travel to coastal towns, mountain villages, remote islands and dense…
Families sue world's biggest tech companies for exposing children to harmful products – BBC News
Hundreds of families are suing some of the world’s biggest technology companies, claiming they knowingly expose children to harmful products. The lawsuit against Meta – the owner of Facebook and Instagram – plus TikTok, Google and Snap Inc, the owner of Snapchat, is one of the largest ever mounted in Silicon Valley. The plaintiffs include ordinary families and school districts from across the US, who…
US veteran gets world's first eye transplant – BBC News
Surgeons in New York say they have performed the world’s first complete eye transplant on a man, although it is not certain he will regain vision. Aaron James, who survived a high-voltage electrical accident, underwent 21 hours of surgery that replaced half of his face. Surgeons have been able to transplant corneas successfully for years. Experts have called the breakthrough a pivotal moment in the…
Survivor describes tragedy on one of world's most dangerous migration routes – BBC News
The North Atlantic sea passage from Senegal to the Canary Islands – a journey of about 1,000 miles – is one of the world’s most dangerous migration routes. In August, a wooden fishing boat was found adrift off the Canary Islands with 38 people on board. It had set off from Senegal more than a month earlier carrying 101 people. One of the survivors, Adama…
Sri Lankan army doctors remove world's largest kidney stone, setting world record
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Read more about Sri Lanka: https://sc.mp/604b Military doctors in Sri Lanka removed what’s been confirmed by the Guinness World Records as the world’s-largest kidney stone on June 1, 2023. Extracted from a 62-year-old retired soldier, the stone weighed 801 grams (28.25oz), over five times the weight of an average male kidney, and measuring 13.37 centimetres (5.26in)…
World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists – BBC News
A plan to build the world’s first octopus farm has raised deep concerns among scientists over the welfare of the famously intelligent creatures. The farm in Spain’s Canary Islands would raise about a million octopuses annually for food, according to confidential documents seen by the BBC. They have never been intensively farmed and some scientists call the proposed icy water slaughtering method “cruel.” The Spanish…
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The UN's human rights chief has said he is "horrified" by the destruction of Gaza's Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals and the reports of "mass graves" being found at the sites [...]
Zach and Tori Roloff appear on 'Little People, Big World' for the last time in the season 25 finale, which aired on TLC. The series will no longer feature any [...]
The prime minister has cancelled public appearances through the weekend, paralysing the country’s political system and raising the possibility of a new election. [...]
