"I've realigned myself in [China's] ideological flow and maybe I will also go to Russia to talk to Putin and tell him that there are three of us against the world — China, Philippines and Russia."

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announces his separation from the United States.
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"I suspect I'd have used this potential new breastfeeding emoji in most of my texts between, oh, 2012 and 2015."

There may soon be an emoji to represent breastfeeding mothers, with the character one of several to be considered by the Unicode Consortium.
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Savannasaurus elliottorum stretched half the length of a basketball court and belonged to a branch of sauropods known as titanosaurs — the largest land animals ever to have lived.

A new species of long-necked dinosaur revealed today had 1.5-metre wide hips and stretched half the length of a basketball court.
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"I thought, how could anyone interpret it as racist? A lot of people obviously did. But I can only say what I was thinking when I drew it."

Cartoonist Bill Leak says it is "absurd" he has been accused of being racist over a cartoon portraying an Aboriginal father and son.
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