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My2022: Beijing Olympics app vulnerable to data breaches, analysts warn (Jan 18, 2022 14:05)
A mandatory Covid monitoring app to be used by all Games attendees has security risks, ...

Villa Aurora: Inheritance dispute leads to €471m auction (Jan 18, 2022 14:05)
The €471m property is at the centre of an inheritance dispute between a princess and he...

Tonga tsunami: Before and after eruption (Jan 18, 2022 14:03)
Satellite and aerial images show impact of eruption of underwater volcano near Tonga is...

Is historic Rome villa the world's most valuable property? (Jan 18, 2022 14:01)
The BBC’s Rome correspondent Mark Lowen takes a look inside Villa Aurora, which is up f...

Texas synagogue hostage-taker was known to MI5 (Jan 18, 2022 13:28)
Malik Faisal Akram, who took four people hostage, was investigated but deemed no longer...

Hong Kong to cull 2,000 hamsters and small mammals over Covid case (Jan 18, 2022 12:47)
A Delta outbreak in "zero Covid" Hong Kong will result in the euthanasia of 2,000 small...

Tonga eruption: How its impact spread so widely and violently (Jan 18, 2022 12:23)
The impact of a massive eruption in Pacific has been felt around the world.

Tonga tsunami sparks 'unprecedented disaster', government says (Jan 18, 2022 12:06)
Tonga's government gives its first statement since a deadly tsunami to hit the island n...

Sweden drones: Sightings reported over nuclear plants and palace (Jan 18, 2022 12:05)
Security services take over an inquiry into a series of sightings and it is unclear who...

Ivermectin: Arkansas inmates sue over Covid treatment with horse dewormer (Jan 18, 2022 11:43)
The prisoners say they were unknowingly prescribed the drug despite warnings from healt...