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Examining US official's claim that data centres 'don't use water'

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested that data centres don't use water. According to the International Energy Agency, a data centre in the United States uses around 2 million litres per day on average. They have become a controversial topic for communities across the US in the run up to November's midterm elections. Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage .


Could robots be the future of theme parks?

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Could robots be the future of theme parks? To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could robots be the future of theme parks? This is Galway Robot Park, a 16,500-square-meter venue that's opened near Seoul in South Korea . The company behind the park says their aim is to bring artificial intelligence and robotics into the world of entertainment.


Watch: Uber launches UK's first robotaxis with a driver - here's what it's like to ride in one

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Customers in London can now travel in the UK's first robotaxis as Uber launches its self-driving minicab on Thursday - the company is the first to launch the service. Initially, it only has 15 autonomous vehicles with a licence to operate in the city, and each one must have a human safety driver behind the wheel ready to take control if anything goes wrong. At the moment, the UK fare for a robotaxi ride will be the same fare as a standard UberX, Uber Electric, or Uber Comfort journey, with upfront fares shown in the app. The BBC's Zoe Kleinman was the first British journalist to hail a self-driving Uber in London - here's how the ride went.


Watch: Astronauts set out on rare all-female spacewalk

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For the sixth time in history, a team of two women completed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Nasa astronaut Jessica Meir and French astronaut Sophie Adenot suited up for a 6.5-hour spacewalk. Meir rode the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to the worksites, while Adenot remained tethered to the station. Meir previously made history in 2019 when she and Nasa astronaut Christina Koch completed the first ever all-female spacewalk.


China censors videos showing deadly flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dramatic footage showing flash floods tearing through the main border crossing between Nepal and Tibet has been widely shared around the world. But the footage has become almost impossible to find on China's heavily censored internet service, with only a single image broadcast by state media. Hundreds of people are feared dead, and thousands remain missing as a major rescue operation continues into the weekend. On Saturday, Chinese state media shared videos of rescue teams searching through mud and debris, but there has been little footage of the floods themselves, or accounts from survivors or anxious families.


97-year-old woman rescued after Nepali floods looked like 'a warrior'

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 97-year-old woman pulled from flood debris in Nepal is recovering in hospital, according to her doctors. Guna Maya Bohara's great-nephew, Dipak Bohara, has told BBC Nepali she looked like a warrior who had returned victorious from battle. The operation to pull Bohara out of the rubble of her care home took four hours. Bohara travelled from Kathmandu to help rescue his great-aunt.


'It's destroying our town': Residents tell of concern after violent incidents near Middlesbrough

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'It's destroying our town': Residents tell of concern after violent incidents near Middlesbrough To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's destroying our town': Residents tell of concern after violent incidents near Middlesbrough Close Residents near Middlesbrough have told the BBC of their concern after a spate of violent incidents in their area, including a crash that killed seven people including two police officers and a house fire that killed a woman and a seven-year-old girl . Police have said the two incidents are not connected. They have made a series of arrests in relation to the crash and two arrests in relation to the house fire. On Friday Redcar MP Anna Turley said disorder at a balloon release for one of the young men who died in the crash was unacceptable.


Norway's 'grandfather': King Harald remembered as son Haakon takes the throne

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People across Norway paid tribute to the nation's late King Harald who died in the early hours of Friday morning at the age of 89 after 35 years on the throne. Mourners gathered outside of the Royal Palace to lay flowers and remember him while his son, King Haakon VIII, officially succeeded him and met with his government. Harald had been treated at the national hospital in Oslo for a rare blood condition. On Friday evening, hospital staff and crowds gathered on the streets as the late king's coffin was moved from the hospital to the Royal Palace.


Videos show people survive floodwaters on balcony in Nepal

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video has captured the moment a group of people stranded on a balcony in Nepal survived as powerful floodwaters rush around them. It's one of several clips BBC Verify has located along the Trishuli River after a deadly cascade of water, mud and other debris flooded the area on Wednesday, as Merlyn Thomas reports. Video produced by Tom Joyner. Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage .


BBC tracks one week of Israeli settler violence in occupied West Bank

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank is set to reach record levels this year, as human rights groups warn that they are increasingly spreading into new areas of the territory. Attacks on Palestinians have risen under Israel's current government, alongside a rapid increase in Israeli settlements, illegal under international law. Many of these attacks are not widely reported on. The BBC's Lucy Williamson has been tracking settler attacks on Palestinians, which have been observed over the last week alone.