Imran Khan- Jail term suspended for Pakistan's former leader - BBC News
Imran Khan- Jail term suspended for Pakistan's former leader - BBC News
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Luis Rubiales suspended by Fifa over Women's World Cup kiss - BBC News
Fifa has handed a 90-day suspension to the president of the Spanish football federation, Luis Rubiales.
The suspension comes after he kissed Spanish midfielder Jenni Hermoso at the World Cup final medal ceremony, which he claims was consensual, but which Hermoso has strongly denied on social media.
Wagner's Prigozhin confirmed dead after tests, Russia says - BBC News
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Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed dead after genetic analysis of bodies found in Wednesday's plane crash, Russian officials have said.
The Investigative Committee said the identities of all 10 victims had been established and corresponded to those on the flight's passenger list. The Kremlin has denied speculation it was to blame for the crash.
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How fast are the Greece wildfires spreading in Avantas - BBC News
Eighteen bodies have been found in a forested area of northern Greece, outside the village of Avantas, hit by wildfires for the past four days, the Greek fire service has said.
Initial reports suggest those who died may have been migrants.
Fires are raging across several fronts in the nation, whipped up by high winds and temperatures which climbed above 40C in several places on Tuesday.
The Evros region of north-eastern Greece, not far from the Turkish border, has been ravaged by fires
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Canada wildfires- Soldiers sent to British Columbia to tackle blazes - BBC News
Canadian wildfires in British Columbia are to be tackled by soldiers deployed to the region.
About 30,000 households have been ordered to evacuate in the province, where nearly 400 wildfires are raging.
Two huge fires in the Shuswap region merged overnight, destroying blocks of houses and other buildings.
To the south, travel to the waterside city of Kelowna has been restricted, and smoke from nearby fires hangs over Lake Okanagan.
Fires have charred homes in West Kelowna, a nearby city of 36,000.
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133 Days on the Sun | NASA new video out now
chronicles solar activity from Aug. 12 to Dec. 22, 2022, as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has steadily imaged the Sun in 4K x 4K resolution for nearly 13 years. This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system. With a triad of instruments, SDO captures an image of the Sun every 0.75 seconds. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument alone captures images every 12 seconds at 10 different wavelengths of light. This 133-day time lapse showcases photos taken at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, which is an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength that shows the Sun’s outermost atmospheric layer: the corona. Compiling images taken 108 seconds apart, the movie condenses 133 days, or about four months, of solar observations into 59 minutes. The video shows bright active regions passing across the face of the Sun as it rotates. The Sun rotates approximately once every 27 days. The loops extending above the bright areas are magnetic fields that have trapped hot, glowing plasma. These bright regions are also the source of solar flares, which appear as bright flashes as magnetic fields snap together in a process called magnetic reconnection. While SDO has kept an unblinking eye pointed toward the Sun, there have been a few moments it missed. Some of the dark frames in the video are caused by Earth or the Moon eclipsing SDO as they pass between the spacecraft and the Sun. Other blackouts are caused by instrumentation being down or data errors. SDO transmits 1.4 terabytes of data to the ground every day. The images where the Sun is off-center were observed when SDO calibrated its instruments. SDO and other NASA missions will continue to watch our Sun in the years to come, providing further insights about our place in space and information to keep our astronauts and assets safe. The music is a continuous mix from Lars Leonhard’s “Geometric Shapes” album, courtesy of the artist. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scott Wiessinger (PAO): Lead Producer Tom Bridgman (SVS): Lead Visualizer Scott Wiessinger (PAO): Editor This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14263. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14263. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines. Video Description: On the left side of the frame is the full circle of the Sun. It appears in a golden yellow color but is splotchy, with thin yellow wisps extending from the surface. Some areas are very bright and others are almost black. The whole Sun rotates steadily, with one full rotation taking 12 minutes in this time-lapse. There are usually only a few bright regions visible at a time and they shift and flash like small fires.
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