• April 19, 2025

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Dalai Lama defended over tongue-sucking remark

  By Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai   A top Tibetan leader has defended the Dalai Lama over a video that showed him asking a child to suck his tongue. Penpa Tsering, head of Tibet’s government-in-exile, has called the spiritual leader’s actions “innocent” and said it demonstrated his “affectionate behaviour”. The video sparked outrage after […]

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European Space Agency: Blast off for Jupiter icy moons mission

IMAGE SOURCE, ESA By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent @BBCAmos   Europe’s mission to the icy moons of Jupiter has blasted away from Earth. The Juice satellite was sent skyward on an Ariane-5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. There was joy, relief and lots of hugs when the watching scientists, officials and […]

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French Alps avalanche: Four hikers killed, others injured

  By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News   At least four people have died in an avalanche in the French Alps, the country’s interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, has said. The incident happened at the Armancette glacier near Mont Blanc in south-eastern France around midday on Sunday local time. It’s thought the victims were among a group […]