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12/08/2015

Insider trading on Wall Street, IAAF hands out doping bans, Charles and Diana wedding day photos, Perseid meteor shower, Parisian cycleways and Watts riots remembered 50 years on.

Federal authorities in the US arrest city traders over one of the most sophisticated trading rings ever seen.

In Los Angeles, Joe Hicks & Cynthia Gonzalez join Peter Bowes to look back at the origin of the Watts riots in the city fifty years on, and discuss what has changed in America in the intervening half century.

Author Paul Dimeo explains the background to the fight against doping cheats in sport, as the IAAF suspends 28 athletes, many of them now retired, over historical doping offences.

Rare and previously unseen photos of Charles and Diana's Royal Wedding day in 1981 go up for auction in Massachusetts.

Night sky watchers gear up for the spectacular sight of the Perseid meteor shower.

Ashish Sharma rounds up all the news from Spain, Parisian cyclists adapt to new road laws on the streets of the French capital, and real ale drinkers abandon the traditional pint glass in favour of smaller measures.

Plus the consultation for a new flag for New Zealand, why Britain is the guilty party in Europe when it comes to wasting food, and the future of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

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Wed 12 Aug 2015 01:00

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