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Asteroid attack test by Nasa in space rock crash

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Nasa will smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to check Earth’s defences against getting hit by a giant space rock. PlayStation State Of Play: Tekken 8 and VR Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy teasers. Thwaites glacier retreat: Dr Robert Larter, a marine geophysicist with British Antarctic Survey, speaks to us aboard RRS Sir David Attenborough. Underwater robot scans of 75-mile wide Antarctic glacier reveal scale of melting and growing fears over future sea levels.

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-UK defence chiefs raise concerns as Russia is increasingly reliant on weapons from rogue states as Ukraine sanctions bite

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