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Chinese Space Lab Falls to Earth

A defunct Chinese space lab hurtled through Earth's atmosphere on Monday, breaking up into pieces as it headed towards a watery grave in the South Pacific.

China's Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth's atmosphere and burnt up over the middle of the South Pacific, the Chinese space authority has said.

Polls have closed in Costa Rica in a presidential run-off in which voters could choose between a conservative evangelical and a former minister for the governing centre-left party.

Islamist militants have launched a gun and bomb attack on an African Union base in Somalia.

53 minutes

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Mon 2 Apr 201802:06GMT

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  • Mon 2 Apr 201802:06GMT