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Canadian photographer Scott Aspinall and his team took on a challenging journey to photograph the Milky Way over a remote waterfall in Saskatchewan, Canada. It was a gruelling five-day trip by car, foot, and canoe – including over some tricky terrain. Aspinall says he “has never worked so hard in [his] life for a photo”.…

People on the streets of Sydney reacted with mixed feelings to a new law which will ban children under 16 in Australia from using social media. Some said it was a “great idea” while others suggested responsibility for children’s social media use should rest with parents. The ban could see tech companies fined up to…

Owas Mwape Owas Mwape and his son Mayamiko before he ran away from home One of Zambia’s most popular actors and filmmakers Owas Mwape broke a social taboo by admitting that one of his young sons has an addiction to drugs when he posted a recent appeal for advice on Facebook. The 52-year-old told the…

AP Australia has warned travellers against Tiger Vodka (pictured) and Tiger Whisky due to “serious safety concerns” Australia has warned travellers not to drink some liquors in Laos, following a spate of deaths linked to suspected methanol poisoning. Australians should avoid drinking Tiger Vodka and Tiger Whisky “due to serious safety concerns”, Australia’s foreign affairs…

Getty Images The world gets a first look inside a resplendent new Notre-Dame on Friday, as France’s President Emmanuel Macron conducts a televised tour to mark the cathedral’s imminent re-opening. Five-and-a-half years after the devastating fire of 2019, Paris’s Gothic jewel has been rescued, renovated and refurbished – offering visitors what promises to be a…

EPA For the first time in almost a decade MPs are going to vote on giving terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to have an assisted death. While it’s something that remains illegal in most countries, more than 300 million people now live in countries which have legalised assisted dying. Canada, Australia,…

Getty Images NHS Grampian said Aberdeen Royal Infirmary was under sustained and continuing pressure A health board is to divert ambulance patients to hospitals outside its area because of “critical” pressure on its largest hospital. NHS Grampian said it had taken the “significant step” of declaring a critical board incident due to sustained and continuing…

Getty Images Gregg Wallace is best known for co-hosting MasterChef Television host Gregg Wallace has been accused of making “lesbian jokes constantly” by a woman who worked on a travel show with him. The woman, who we are calling Anna, said he was “fascinated” by the fact she dated women and asked her the “logistics”…

Jamie Matthews Jamie Matthews tracked down heat loss at his home with a thermal imaging camera It’s like X-ray vision – for heat loss. Last year, web engineer Jamie Matthews bought a thermal imaging camera. His home, in the southeast of England, was about to give up some of its secrets. The colourful images on…

BBC It is the perfect start to a holiday: your plane ticket is cheap, your cabin baggage is safely stowed, the engines are roaring into life – and the pilot has announced that there’s no need to worry about the environmental impact. This is Jet Zero, a vision where air travel is entirely carbon neutral…