Plus, how do you survive 25 years debunking fake news?
| Parliament suspension: Supreme Court to give ruling |
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| Thomas Cook: Customers complain over replacement flight cost |
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| Obesity 'not caused by lack of willpower' |
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| | | | | The Snopes website and social feeds have become a reservoir of bizarre facts, political nuggets, investigative journalism into hard-hitting subjects - as well as the most weird stories you can imagine. From questions around President Donald Trump's tweeted policy suggestions to queries around Disney's Goofy and whether he is actually a cow, there seems to be very little the fact-checkers haven't had to cast a sceptical eye over. News events keep the trending list of top 50 rumours current with a question over the veracity of images emerging as a result of Hurricane Dorian popping up. But often older debunks turn up again and again, such as ones focusing on a story about "dangerous cosmic rays passing close by the earth" and viral "deathbed warnings" by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. | |
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| | | | The collapse of Thomas Cook leads several newspapers, with the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Daily Express calling for bosses at the travel firm to pay back millions of pounds in salaries and bonuses. Meanwhile, the Sun accuses other airlines of "daylight robbery" in hiking the prices for replacement flights. Elsewhere, the Guardian concentrates on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn defeating an attempt to change the party's Brexit stance at its conference in Brighton. And the i reports on climate change activist Greta Thunberg's "powerful" address to the UN General Assembly. | |
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| | | Climate change Scientists to report on "threat to humanity" caused by ocean warming |
| | | | Labour Party plans more investment in offshore wind and electric cars |
| | | | | | IRA Brighton bomb Ex-priest admits link to 1984 attack that targeted Margaret Thatcher |
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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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| If you read one thing today |
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| | | 09:00 Spain's Supreme Court rules on an appeal against the exhumation of former dictator Francisco Franco's remains. |
| | | | 14:00 Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gives the opening speech of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. |
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| | | | 1976 The Rhodesian government agrees to end white minority rule in the country within two years. |
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