IOC boss says individual athletes cannot be punished for acts of their governments, defending move to allow Russians and Belarusians to compete as neutrals (www.bbc.co.uk)
Nasa beams cat video from deep space with laser (www.bbc.co.uk)
Ukraine war: Kyiv forced to cut military operations as foreign aid dries up (www.bbc.co.uk)
Hungary blocks €50bn of EU funding for Ukraine (www.bbc.co.uk)
US drops charges against Peruvian man accused of hoax bomb threats (www.bbc.co.uk)
A web developer from Peru says he became depressed and his business was devastated after US authorities wrongly accused him of bomb threats and child sex offences.
New pro-EU Polish PM Donald Tusk fleshes out programme (www.bbc.co.uk)
Ukraine mobile network Kyivstar hit by 'cyber-attack' (www.bbc.co.uk)
France's Emmanuel Macron buffeted from all sides in row over secularism (www.bbc.co.uk)
Denmark passes law to ban Quran burnings (www.bbc.co.uk)
€45,000 for a heat pump retrofit in Germany -- really? (www.bbc.co.uk)
Germany is struggling to get people on-board with a green energy movement that involves banning high footprint domestic heating systems (e.g. gas boilers)-- thus forcing people to migrate to heat pumps. A low-income family who was interviewed said it would cost €45k to install a heat pump in their terraced home in Bremen....
David Attenborough's Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives: 1. Magic in the Rocks (1989) (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/5471773...
UK porn watchers could have faces scanned (www.bbc.co.uk)
Looks like UK is going the same way as a few states. Spare a thought for us. So messed up this increasing surveillance state.
Louis Theroux interviews Chelsea Manning (www.bbc.co.uk)
The Israelis grappling with helping sick Palestinians (www.bbc.co.uk)
Google admits AI viral video was edited to look better (www.bbc.co.uk)
Belt and Road: Italy pulls out of flagship Chinese project (www.bbc.co.uk)
Two arrested in France over alleged bedbug scam (www.bbc.co.uk)
Armenia and Azerbaijan to work towards peace deal (www.bbc.co.uk)
Russia luring migrants from Finnish border for war in Ukraine (www.bbc.co.uk)
Russia hacking: 'FSB in years-long cyber attacks on UK', says government (www.bbc.co.uk)
TV licence fee to rise by £10.50, government announces (www.bbc.co.uk)
The annual fee will rise by 6.6% - less than the BBC hoped for - based on September's rate of inflation.
Ukraine claims killing of 'traitor' ex-MP Illya Kyva in Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)
Wieambilla shootings: US arrests man over Australian religious terror attack (www.bbc.co.uk)
Firefighters rescue injured owl from crows (www.bbc.co.uk)
It seems animal rescue is all part of the job for firefighters in Russia too but in Smolensk it was a bit more serious than a cat up a tree.