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Image copyright ubisoft Gamers have been getting nostalgic for Assassin’s Creed Unity after it was given away for free. Set in the French revolution the game features an accurate recreation of Notre Dame cathedral. Ubisoft offered the game up as a free download after the church was damaged by a huge fire. The 2014 title […]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionVolodymyr Zelensky and his supporters celebrate winning Ukraine’s presidential election Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has scored a landslide victory in the country’s presidential election. With nearly all ballots counted in the run-off vote, Mr Zelensky had taken more than 73% with incumbent Petro Poroshenko trailing far behind

Image copyright Getty Images Rylan Clark-Neal is to join the presenting team on Strictly’s sister show, It Takes Two. He will split hosting duties on the programme with Zoe Ball when it returns later this year. Ball announced the news on her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show on Thursday, when Rylan called in as a

Image copyright Getty Images UB40 saxophonist Brian Travers says he will “carry on living life to the full” after having two brain tumours removed. The founding member of the Birmingham band, who topped the charts in 1983 with Red Red Wine, added that he does not plan to give up alcohol or smoking. In March,

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Emilia Clarke plays Daenerys Targaryen in HBO’s popular fantasy series The latest episode of Game of Thrones was uploaded to Amazon early due to an “error”, the company has said. The second instalment of the eighth and final series was not supposed to be broadcast until Sunday evening. But some

Image copyright Getty Images/Manchester Museum Image caption Spider experts think the jumping spider (right) looks a bit like the famous caterpillar A jumping spider has been named after Eric Carle, the author of children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The arachnid was found by naturalist Stefan Obenauer in a Hong Kong park, who contacted Manchester

George Alagiah has spoken of his guilt at having to use disabled toilets while having no visible disability. The BBC newsreader, who has stage four bowel cancer, used the facilities in the past because of having a stoma bag attached to his stomach. When disabled people saw him using the toilets he would feel the

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Beyonce’s new documentary features quotes and audio from black leaders and intellectuals Beyoncé’s Netflix documentary Homecoming is much more than a film about the first black woman to headline the Coachella music festival. It is a celebration of black American culture with education, specifically Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Image caption BTS’s album, Map Of The Soul: Persona, is heading for number one on both sides of the Atlantic Almost 30 years ago, in a classroom in the Jung Institute of Evanston, Illinois, Dr Murray Stein delivered a series of lectures that have had an unexpected impact on pop history. The topic was Carl

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionClimate Change – The Facts is available to watch on BBC iPlayer Sir David Attenborough’s new BBC documentary on climate change has been praised by TV critics. Climate Change – The Facts, shown on BBC One on Thursday, was a “rousing call to arms”, said the Guardian.