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The world's highest bridge opened in China on Sunday, taking the crown from another bridge in the same province. From a report: The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge soars about 2,050 feet above a river and gorge in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. It is more than twice as high as the Royal Gorge Bridge, which is suspended 956 feet above the Arkansas River in Colorado and is the highest in the United States. According to Chinese state media, the new Guizhou bridge also sets a record as the world's longest bridge in a mountainous region, spanning 4,600 feet across. Hailed as China's latest "infrastructure miracle," the bridge is designed to spur tourism and economic growth in one of the country's least developed regions.

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Anthony Cummins reviews the best Literary Fiction out now.

Budget airline Fly Play has cancelled all planned flights at London Stansted Airport after going into administration.

Italy made headlines this summer after videos went viral of crowds packed into hotspots across the country. 

Noel Gallagher welcomed a coterie of famous friends and family members at Chiltern Firehouse, hours after completing the final UK gig of their very lucrative reunion tour.

Police are reviewing CCTV in the park

Hassan Mahmoud Hassan Hussein orchestrated the massacre of 16 Israelis from a roadside bomb shelter, where partygoers fled after terrorists descended on the Nova music festival.

Last week, the airline celebrated a year since the scheme was launched - and Wizz Air said it had been 'overwhelmed by the extremely positive response' for the concept.

Dyson's profits fell sharply last year as a 'necessary year of transformation' was complicated by a factory fire and currency fluctuations.

Angela Rayner may have resigned in disgrace from the Cabinet - but her spirit is stalking this conference.

The slip-up left the 67-year-old morning show host flat on her face, for a moment. She had just eked out four pull-ups with celebrity personal trainer Kenny Santucci.

Unity and Diana Mitford were two of the most infamous British fascists of their time. A new book reveals that it was their mother who pushed them into Hitler's orbit.

Roxan Bastaens, 20, a Belgian national studying at the University of Edinburgh , had travelled to the west of Ireland for a hiking trip in May last year, weeks before her 21st birthday.

Christian Brueckner, the freed suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, has attempted to confront the German prosecutor who accused him of killing the British girl. 

The woman, in her 30s, was attacked at St Mary's Church's churchyard in Banbury, Oxfordshire, and in the surrounding areas of the town centre on Sunday morning.

News of his tragic passing has plunged the sporting world into mourning, with a raft of the sport's greats including Tyson Fury and Amir Khan all paying tribute to Hatton.

Keir Starmer risked stirring a hornets' nest yesterday when he used the term to attack Reform's crackdown on so-called 'settled status'.

"My ask to the parents of children in the area is simple: check where your children are"

NASA will put an entire 'village' on the moon by 2035, according Sean Duffy, the space agency's administrator.

What's the proper punishment for an illegal U-turn? If you're a human being in California, it's a fine of up to $234. If you're a robot, apparently, it's nothing at all. The San Francisco Standard: This injustice became apparent to many Facebook users Saturday night after a viral post from the San Bruno Police Department showed footage of officers pulling over a Waymo for the scofflaw maneuver only to discover that no one was behind the wheel. The car stopped automatically when it saw the police lights during a Friday evening DUI checkpoint, but instead of a person IRL, officers say they were connected with a Waymo rep over the phone. After a brief exchange, the Waymo was sent on its way. Under current law, officials explained, they couldn't issue a ticket. "Our citation books don't have a box for 'robot,'" they joked on Facebook. "Hopefully the reprogramming will keep it from making any more illegal moves."

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