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Catherine The Great's Freshwater Pearl To Go On Sale
It is renowned for its irregular shape and nearly 300-year history
The world's largest known freshwater pearl, which once belonged to the Russian monarch Catherine the Great, is going on sale in the Netherlands next month.
Moscow and several international organisations have criticised Ukraine after it admitted staging the fake murder of a Russian journalist in Kiev.
And we speak to the California fish seller who falls in love with an octopus.
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