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Finishing first degree at the age of nine

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Laurent Simons from Belgium is a nine-year-old boy who’s graduating with a degree in electrical engineering from the Eidhoven University of Technology. We speak to him and his father Alexander.

Britain's governing Conservative Party is criticised for rebranding one of its Twitter accounts to look like an election "fact-checking" agency and then declaring Conservative Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, the winner in a TV debate between him and the leader of the Labour opposition, Jeremy Corbyn.

American billionaire and philanthropist, Bill Gates, tells us why the global fight to eradicate polio is to be delayed by a decade.

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Wed 20 Nov 2019 07:06GMT

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  • Wed 20 Nov 2019 07:06GMT