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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/217f/live/f395e320-c94c-11f1-8566-4db41fa77717.jpg”] BBC Sophie Pendrick said she was “shocked” to hear about the data centre plans The demand for new data centres could lead to one of the biggest in the country, being built in a rural Fenland village. Evolution Power Limited (EPL) revealed on Thursday it wants to create the facility on farmland…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/9ab9/live/138578c0-c453-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] How a harrowing trial of two murdered Australian surfers ended in a guilty verdict A Mexican judge has sentenced three men convicted of murdering Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their US friend Carter Rhoad to 158 years and nine months in jail each. The Robinsons and Rhoad were killed in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/c147/live/f608c860-c9cf-11f1-84c1-fd3c3266bb86.jpg”] Reuters Donald Trump blocked numerous sanctions on Russia two days before they were due to take effect, as a row with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky deepens. The sanctions were passed by the Congress and signed into law the president in September. But Trump issued an executive order Friday night saying that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/43ab/live/8511edf0-c9be-11f1-ae9f-bf0ab88aba90.jpg”] Getty Images Brazil’s government says deforestation rates in the country’s Amazon and savanna regions have fallen to record lows ahead of a presidential election run-off in which the rainforest’s future is a key issue. Left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, when he assumed office three years ago, pledged to end deforestation…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/8ba8/live/ea5ead70-c986-11f1-b646-2b044167639a.jpg”] AFP via Getty Images When it comes to the future direction of the global economy there is a bit of a tug of war going on. There are starkly opposing forces. On the one hand holding back growth are the familiar, recurring crises from the energy shock, trade conflict and actual war.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/67d1/live/5c4e9f00-c9c6-11f1-9624-cbdaf8e49de5.jpg”] Watch: Aircraft deployed to fight burning Bryson fire in Malibu Evacuation orders in California are in effect due to a rapidly growing wildfire that has already burned six homes south of Los Angeles. The Norte Fire erupted on Friday in Orange County and quickly grew to 465 acres by the evening. By…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a7e9/live/0fd9b790-c971-11f1-80fc-ab418b149008.jpg”] Toronto Star via Getty Images Marineland was once an iconic Canadian attraction, known for its Everyone loves Marineland jingle Tofino approached each of his handlers in turn as they knelt in shallow water and stroked his sides. Shortly after, a crane hoisted the more than 1,500kg beluga whale into a lorry to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ae0a/live/7e914b00-c96f-11f1-80fc-ab418b149008.jpg”] Reuters The “cockroach” demonstrations over the summer of 2026 could well become the last time Jantar Mantar was home to a sustained protest movement What is the point of a protest? To raise your voice against injustice? To draw attention to a cause? Or to make those in power uncomfortable enough to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/d5a8/live/e214ac90-ca31-11f1-9ab2-b325ce61f9d2.jpg”] TOLGA AKMEN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock When vaping first took off at Gracey Mungulu’s school, she was vocal about the fact she found it as repulsive as smoking. “I literally used to tell people like, ‘Er, why are you doing that?’” she says. But Gracey says the habit became so common among her classmates that by…