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BBC
Government data stolen in hack, minister confirms : The trade minister says information was accessed and an investigation has been launched.
£100 contactless card limit to be lifted: Card providers can decide whether to offer unlimited payments on contactless cards.
Watch: Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed gifted A$2.5m (£1.24m) in hospital: Australia's prime minister visited Ahmed in hospital as he's treated for shooting injuries.
Brown University shooting suspect found dead, police say: The suspect ‍in ​last week's ‌mass shooting at Brown University has also been linked by police to the murder of an MIT professor on Monday.

CBC
Thieves dressed as Santa and his elves steal $3K worth of goods from Montreal grocery store:

Several people dressed as Santa and a group of masked elves were filmed at a grocery store in Montreal on Monday night filling up carts with food. An activist group calling themselves Robins des ruelles or Robins of the Alleys claimed responsibility for the heist. The group says the stolen food was redistributed in the community.

B.C. artist's murder solved by cold case unit for Indigenous people in Washington State:

65-year-old master carver George David of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation was killed in Port Angeles in 2016.

Judge sides with province, removes injunction pausing ban on Alberta youth receiving gender-affirming care:

A judge ruled Thursday to remove an injunction in place since the summer against Alberta's law prohibiting doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth.

New York Times Science
NASA Webb Telescope Discovers Lemon-Shaped Planet, the ‘Stretchiest’ Ever Seen: An unusual object orbiting a rapidly spinning star might be a new phenomenon in the universe.

When the Bones Were Good, These Bees Buried Their Babies: A cave in the Dominican Republic concealed thousands of years worth of animal bones that had been turned into nests by prehistoric bees.

Penguins Become Prey for the Pumas of Patagonia: In Argentina, the return of pumas brought top predators back to the landscape — much to penguins’ dismay.

More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps: Two hundred million years ago, prosauropods walked the earth. They left something behind.


Visualizing Science

The oldest known human art is also the oldest known human attempt to record Nature.  This painting is 34,000 years old and was found in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, which is the subject of Werner Herzog’s film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog used a 3D camera to capture how the shapes of the walls were incorporated into the paintings.

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