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Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drown

After severe weather in 2016 a large penguin colony at the Brunt ice shelf in Antarctica never recovered.

The emperor penguins in the Halley Bay colony have either moved away or stopped breeding after thousands of chicks died when the ice collapsed during bad weather three years ago.

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Driver tries to move car among flash flood in New Orleans

Floods and tornadoes cause damage in US Gulf states

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Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel

'Very fortunate' no one died in shooting, police say

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BBC News

East of England weather forecast

England
Keyframe #1

Bar owner pays tribute to 'wonderful character'

Northern Ireland
Ballymena Primary School turns 175 years old this year and pupils have been learning about the past.

The Ballymena school teaching generations of children

Northern Ireland
Smoke

Locals told 'not to be alarmed' by smoke

Scotland
Michael Davis arrested

Footage shows arrest of man who murdered baby son

Leicester
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One-minute World News

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Flooding at West Kirby

Sea wall 'spectacularly failed', says councillor

Liverpool
Patricia Rogers

Hidden filming catches out Barnsley fraudster

Sheffield & South Yorkshire
Yvette Cooper

Cooper: Labour's plan to revive British high streets

UK Politics
Two girls at an Eid event

'After 30 days of fasting it's a relief'

Northern Ireland
Biden in interview

Biden says Netanyahu making 'a mistake' in Gaza

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Yousra Elsadig

Welsh Muslims discuss Ramadan in shadow of wars

Wales
Heather Humphreys

'I thought he must be on work experience'

Europe
Rishi Sunak

Does Sunak regret not sacking William Wragg?

UK Politics
Dr Hilary Cass, chair of the Cass Review

'Toxicity of gender debate' affecting treatment - Cass

Health
Heath fire seen through trees

Video shows firefighters battle heath fire

Dorset
Fire at The Bridge in Easton Town, Sherston

Flames engulf roof of Indian restaurant

Wiltshire
Houseboat floats through San Francisco Bay

Watch: Is that a house floating through San Francisco Bay?

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Leopard hunting in pitch black

World first as leopards filmed hunting in pitch black

The BBC's Natural History Unit got a rare glimpse of the behaviour as climate change forces animals to adapt.

Science & Environment
Leopard hunting in pitch black

World first as leopards filmed hunting in pitch black

The BBC's Natural History Unit got a rare glimpse of the behaviour as climate change forces animals to adapt.

Science & Environment
Swiss Alps

Satellite view of Earth: Swiss Alps

A UK company is making high-definition movies of Planet Earth from orbit.

Science & Environment
Canada wildfires

Satellite view of Earth: Canadian wildfires

A UK company is making high-definition movies of Planet Earth from orbit.

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Namibia

Satellite view of Earth: Namibian desert

A UK company is making high-definition movies of Planet Earth from orbit.

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UK

Satellite view of Earth: Cloudless UK

A UK company is making high-definition movies of Planet Earth from orbit.

Science & Environment
Starship

SpaceX launches its mammoth Starship rocket

The most powerful rocket system ever built lifted off from its base in southeast Texas.

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Seedling

Watch: Seedlings from Sycamore Gap tree sprout up

BBC News is shown the secret site protecting the remains of the Sycamore Gap tree felled last year.

Science & Environment
Vaquita USV

Robot boats: The remote-controlled vessels on our seas

Satellites, robotics, sensors and smart algorithms are changing the way we work at sea.

Science & Environment
Astronauts embrace

Moment astronauts hug as they arrive at space station

The Endeavour spacecraft docked with the ISS after blasting off from Florida.

Science & Environment
SpaceX rocket lifting-off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida

SpaceX rocket blasts US-Russian crew towards space station

The three men and one woman crew will stay on the International Space Station (ISS) for a six month mission.

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Orca attacking shark

Killer whale v shark: Solo orca eats great white

A solitary killer whale, or orca, has been filmed hunting and killing a great white shark in an "astonishing" attack.

Science & Environment
Picture of transparent fish

How Danionella cerebrum makes its sound

How Danionella cerebrum makes its sound

Science & Environment
Intuitive Machines

‘We are transmitting’: US Moon mission touches down

An American company becomes the first commercial outfit to put a spacecraft on the Moon.

Science & Environment
A humpback whale calf

Listen to humpback whales' song

Humpbacks and other baleen whales have evolved a specialised "voice box" that enables them to sing underwater.

Science & Environment
Drone shot of Antarctica

Moment giant Antarctica drone takes off

Scientists want to use the robot plane to reach inaccessible areas to understand climate change.

Science & Environment
SpaceX launches lunar lander into orbit

SpaceX blasts private company's lunar lander into orbit

Intuitive Machines, a private Houston-based company, launches its first lunar lander from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Iceberg A23a

World's biggest iceberg spins around

A23a, which is more than twice the size of Greater London, does a 360-degree turn.

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phone footage of blocked footpaths

Public footpaths blocked

Blockages in the UK's public footpaths

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Mpungwe the silverback gorilla

A close encounter with a 40-stone silverback gorilla

Cameraman Vianet Djenguet got a little too close for comfort when filming the alpha male of a gorilla family.

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