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Space Crash

A crash on the Mir space station, an African-American living in the USSR against his will, saving the penguins in South Africa, the biggest car bomb blast in Saudi Arabia, and America's most publicised case of genital mutilation.

Photo: Mir Space Station. Credit: Getty Images.

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Mon 27 Jun 201603:06GMT
BBC World Service Australasia

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