Muhammad Ali funeral: Thousands line route for farewell

Thousands are attending a farewell procession for boxing legend Muhammad Ali in his home city of Louisville, in the US state of Kentucky. Onlookers lining the roadside waved, took photos and chanted "Ali, Ali" as a cortege led by the hearse carrying his coffin drove through the downtown area. The heavyweight champion and rights activist died last Friday aged 74. The cortege is taking Ali's body past key sites in his life, ahead of...

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Experiment 'turns waste CO2 to stone'

Image copyrightJUERG MATTERImage captionThe experiment injected 220 tonnes of carbon dioxide several hundred metres underground Scientists think they have found a smart way to constrain carbon dioxide emissions - just turn them to stone. The researchers report an experiment in Iceland where they have pumped CO2 and water underground into volcanic rock. Reactions with the minerals in the deep basalts convert the carbon dioxide to a stable,...

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Apple to lower App Store 'tax' for loyal subscribers

If you sell an app, subscription or other product through the App Store, Apple gets 30% of the money. That's how its been since the App Store's inception seven years ago. But soon Apple will for the first time lower its App Store commission on one condition: if an app can retain a subscriber for over a year, the revenue split will be 85/15. The change will apply immediately to existing apps with users that are more than a year...

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Ten Spectacular museums around the world 2016

In honour of #museumweek, BBC Culture rounds up stunning buildings around the world that house the treasures of civilisation. Musee d’Orsay, France Standing on the Left Bank of the Seine, this venerable Paris museum was opened in 1986 in a former Beaux-Arts railway station and hotel. The layout uses its previous incarnation to full effect – galleries cluster around the grand nave and light streams in through its sweeping glass...

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