Plus, the city divided by a youth club
| Parliament suspension: MPs return after Supreme Court ruling |
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| Trump impeachment: Democrats launch inquiry into Ukraine claims |
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| US President Donald Trump denies asking Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky during a phone call for help to damage a political rival. But Democrats have launched a formal impeachment inquiry. It's claimed Mr Trump threatened to withhold military aid to Ukraine unless it investigated corruption allegations against former Vice-President Joe Biden - a candidate for next year's presidential election - and his son Hunter. Mr Biden denies any wrongdoing. Senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi says Mr Trump committed a "violation of the law". The BBC looks at why she has made the impeachment move now and what might happen next. | |
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| Thomas Cook collapse: Tourists 'trapped' in Cuba |
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| Following the collapse of tour operator Thomas Cook, several holidaymakers and crew say they are being held in hotels in Cuba until they pay their bills. "It's getting very worrying now," one tourist told the BBC. More than 1,000 flights are booked between now and 6 October to repatriate the 135,300 holidaymakers still abroad. Some of those affected by Thomas Cook entering liquidation share their stories. | |
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| | | | | Each year, the Loebner Prize challenges chatbots to pass the Turing test, proposed in 1950 by the British mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer Alan Turing. In Turing's "imitation game", a judge would communicate through a teleprompter with a human and a computer. The computer's job was to imitate human conversation convincingly enough to persuade the judge. Turing thought that within 50 years, computers would be able to fool 30% of human judges after five minutes of conversation. He was not far off. It actually took 64 years. | |
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| | | | The future of Boris Johnson, following the Supreme Court's decision that suspending Parliament was unlawful, is discussed in great detail. The Guardian calls the judgement "crushing", adding that the PM's response has been "defiant". The Financial Times describes the court's ruling as a "damning indictment", while the Daily Mirror says he could quit soon. However, there is support for Mr Johnson in other newspapers. The Daily Mail argues that the court's intervention raises a question of "who runs Britain". And the Daily Express asks: "What's lawful about denying 17.4 million [people] Brexit?" | |
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| | | | | 'Quiet green tax' Gardeners charged up to £100 a year for kerbside garden waste collections |
| | | | Mont Blanc Glacier in danger of collapse, experts warn |
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| If you watch one thing today |
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| If you listen to one thing today |
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| | | Today Film items including Dorothy's dress from the Wizard of Oz and Darth Vader's helmet are up for auction in Los Angeles. |
| | | | 13:30 The annual Bloomberg Global Business Forum takes place in New York, with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and incoming European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde among the speakers. |
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| | | | 1950 United Nations forces take control of the South Korean capital Seoul, three months after it fell to North Korea. |
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