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Tech this week: Texas sues Facebook over facial-recognition practises
Meta’s Facebook is in hot water with the state of Texas and French president Emmanuel Macron wants Europe to defend its sovereignty in space.
Elton John postpones Texas concerts after contracting COVID-19
The concerts, part of John's "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour, were scheduled for January 25 and January 26.
UK police arrest two more men over Texas synagogue hostage-taking
Counter-terrorism authorities said that the two suspects were arrested in Manchester.
UK police arrest two men over Texas synagogue hostage-taking
Four people were held for several hours by an armed British man on Saturday in what the US has called a "terrorism-related matter”.
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Two UK teenagers arrested over Texas synagogue hostage taking
Four people were held hostage in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday by an armed captor identified as British national Malik Faisal Akram.
Texas synagogue standoff: Hostages safe, captor dead
The four hostages were released and freed after an FBI SWAT team stormed the synagogue, where an unnamed, allegedly armed man kept them for hours on Saturday.
At least eight people killed in crowd surge at festival in Texas
Officials in Texas say at least eight people have been killed and several others injured in a crowd surge at Astroworld Festival.
US Supreme Court hears challenges on Texas abortion law
The controversial new abortion law in Texas that has all but ended the procedure in the state.
See how astronauts live in Blue Origin's Texas village
Take a look around Blue Origin's astronaut village, complete with campfires, camper vans and blue cocktails.
Tesla will move its HQ to Texas, Musk announces
Company CEO Elon Musk has had a fractious relationship with Californian authorities, with disagreements over COVID safety rules leading Tesla to sue a county health department.
Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions
"Women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution," a US federal judge wrote in its order to suspend the law.
COVID-19 deaths eclipse 700,000 in US as delta variant rages
Tens of millions of Americans have refused to get vaccinated, allowing the highly contagious delta variant to tear through the country.
Abortion 'whistleblower' site offline after webhost refuses to host it
The website allowing users to report abortion patients to Texas authorities went offline after hosting company GoDaddy said it violated its terms.
US Supreme Court refuses to stop Texas law banning most abortions
The law marks the most dramatic restriction on abortion rights in the United States since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalised abortion across the country in 1973.
Climate misinformation shifts focus to extreme weather events
"There’s a shift in tactics. Now it’s softer forms of denial and efforts to diminish the impacts of climate change,” Penn State climate scientists Michael Mann said.
These ‘cold-stunned’ turtles have been released back into the ocean
A record-breaking winter storm meant the water became too cold for the turtles leaving them washed up in Cape Cod.
Joe Biden visits Texas amid recovery effort from deadly winter storm
More than a million people in the state are still under orders to boil water before drinking it after millions lost power and water pipes burst in an extreme cold snap.
Pet tiger rescued during Texas freeze is rehomed in sanctuary
A six-month-old tigress, who rescuers have named Elsa, was found in dangerously low temperatures wearing a harness.
The most striking images from this week's top stories
Here is our round-up of the week's biggest news stories as captured through the lens' of photographers around the world.
'Cold-stunned' sea turtles rescued from deadly Texas snowstorm
Volunteers have been trying to warm up the animals despite problems with water and power in the southern US state.
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