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Toy maker Mattel has launched a new line of gender-inclusive dolls called Creatable World. Each one comes with a variety of wigs of different lengths and a range of outfits, including both trousers and skirts, so kids can design their doll without conforming to male and female stereotypes.
The UK’s highest court has ruled that Boris Johnson’s prorogation of parliament was unlawful. Lawyers for Gina Miller, who is bringing a challenge over Mr Johnson’s advice to the Queen to suspend Parliament for five weeks, told the UK’s highest court that the Prime Minister’s decision was an “unlawful abuse of power”.
British adventurer James Ketchell has become the first person to fly solo around the world in an open-cockpit gyrocopter after touching down in Popham Airfield in Hampshire. The 37-year-old flew over Europe, the USA and Asia, covering more than 24,000 nautical miles over his 122 separate flights.
On their first overseas engagement since the birth of their son, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited the township on Nyanga, about 20km from Cape Town. They met schoolchildren and members of The Justice Desk group, which teaches self-defence and empowerment to vulnerable children.
During the party’s third day of conference in Brighton, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell announced the implementation of 32-hour working weeks within 10 years, with no loss of pay. The announcement came after a busy weekend for the party, which saw Jeremy Corbyn’s top aide Andrew Fisher quit.
In their largest burning of confiscated drugs to date, Panama's security forces burned 24 tonnes of cocaine and two tonnes of marijuana, in a remote area. The destroyed drugs were confiscated only in the last four months.
Three scientists are attempting to better understand methane so that its prevalence in the atmosphere can be reduced. There has been a rise of methane levels in the last decade, and although it is less prevalent than CO2, it can be more destructive than carbon dioxide.
Visitors are arriving in rural Nevada in response to the Storm Area 51 event that went viral on Facebook earlier this year. Some residents of the small town of Rachel are worried crowds might overwhelm the community.
Organisers say at least 300,000 people have taken part in the global strikes on the climate emergency. Adults have been urged to join school students this week in their Friday school strikes, a protest begun by Greta Thunberg.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologised after a photo was published by Time magazine showing him wearing 'brownface' makeup. Trudeau said he had dressed in an Aladdin costume and “put makeup on” for an end-of-year gala at a private school in British Columbia where the Liberal Party leader worked as a teacher.