Tonight's bulletin · BULLETIN No. 43 - NORMANDY, FRANCE
Backyard Ultra World Team Championships 2026: a blackout hits France's 100th hour in Normandy
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Every episode
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Wednesday 21 October 2026 · FRANCE
Backyard Ultra World Team Championships 2026: a blackout hits France's 100th hour in Normandy
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Tuesday 20 October 2026 · ENGLAND
Irlam station in Manchester, England, wins the World Cup of Stations 2026
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Monday 19 October 2026 · USA
Champ, a three-legged Yorkie from Cohoes, New York, wins the 2026 World's Cutest Rescue Dog Contest
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Sunday 18 October 2026 · CHINA
Lara Gillespie wins the points race world title in Shanghai, Gian van Veen breaks the European Tour average record in Maastricht, Eugenio Chacarra wins the DP World India Championship
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Friday 16 October 2026 · ENGLAND
Helga Duffy, 99, becomes the world's oldest wing-walker over Gloucestershire, England
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Thursday 15 October 2026 · GERMANY
A lorry loses 1,440 crates of beer on the A8 near Burgau, Bavaria, after a tyre bursts
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Wednesday 14 October 2026 · CHINA
Sophie Capewell's saddle snaps mid-lap in the Track World Championships team sprint final; Great Britain take silver in Shanghai
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Tuesday 13 October 2026 · SOUTH AFRICA
Josh Hazlewood takes a career-best 6-49 as Australia beat South Africa by 214 runs in the first Test in Durban
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Monday 12 October 2026 · CALIFORNIA
Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off 2026: Travis Gienger drives a car-sized pumpkin 30 hours from Minnesota to the scale
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Sunday 11 October 2026 · ENGLAND
Frankie the Tiger is world conker champion, Tilak Varma is run out punching gloves, Eliud Kipchoge wins the Melbourne Marathon
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Saturday 10 October 2026 · ITALY
Paul Seixas, 20, wins Il Lombardia 2026 solo in Como, the youngest winner of the Giro di Lombardia ever
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Friday 9 October 2026 · KAZAKHSTAN
Ireland's Girls in Green beat Kazakhstan 8-0 in Astana in the first leg of their World Cup play-off semi-final
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Thursday 8 October 2026 · NORTHERN IRELAND
The Bendy Tree, a 150-year-old wych elm on the promenade in Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland, is the UK Tree of the Year 2026
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Wednesday 7 October 2026 · SCOTLAND
Brodie the polar bear is back at Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland, and he brought his 14-year-old cousin Luka home with him
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Tuesday 6 October 2026 · ANTARCTICA
Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen wins for IceCube, the giant ice cube at the South Pole that catches ghost particles
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Monday 5 October 2026 · SWEDEN
Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win for optogenetics, switching brain cells on with light
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Sunday 4 October 2026 · FRANCE
Daryz wins the Arc twice, Elfyn Evans is world rally champ, Gina Saarberg wins the Golden Spurtle
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Saturday 3 October 2026 · SOUTH AFRICA
Lhuan-dre Pretorius hits 188 not out, beating Chris Gayle's T20 world record of 175
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Friday 2 October 2026 · US
Asha, the Sioux Falls zoo's first snow leopard cub in 21 years, whose name means hope.
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Thursday 1 October 2026 · SOUTH KOREA
Jaan Roose walked a slackline 120 metres above Gwanghwamun in Seoul today.
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Wednesday 30 September 2026 · US
Fat Bear Week 2026, the whole week in 7 songs: from Chunk the champ to Backpack, Bear 89, the winner
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Wednesday 30 September 2026 · US
Backpack, Bear 89, wins Fat Bear Week 2026 by five thousand votes.
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Tuesday 29 September 2026 · US
Backpack and the Dancing Queen meet in the Fat Bear Week final.
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Monday 28 September 2026 · US
Backpack, who rode his mother's back as a cub, meets Bucky Dent in today's semi-final.
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Sunday 27 September 2026 · US
Three stories, one song: Ping Ping and Fu Shuang landed in Atlanta, Bukang-i stayed put in Busan, Balgray took its first train.
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Saturday 26 September 2026 · NEW ZEALAND
A seal stopped traffic in Wellington and ignored the police cones.
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Friday 25 September 2026 · US
Bucky Dent knocked out the champ Chunk; today he faces Walker.
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Thursday 24 September 2026 · US
Chunk v Bucky Dent: the champ's Fat Bear Week bout is today.
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Wednesday 23 September 2026 · US
The fat bears broke the internet: Day 1 voting runs again today, and Chunk's bout moves to Thursday.
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Tuesday 22 September 2026 · US
Fat Bear Week voting opened today in Alaska. Chunk, the 1,200-pound champ, is back to defend his crown.
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Monday 21 September 2026 · South Korea
Bukang-i the shark has been lost in a Busan city park for four days. So many people came to watch that from tonight the park shuts at dusk.
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Sunday 20 September 2026 · Germany
Three stories, one song: police rescued a mole, firefighters winched up a deer, divers played 51 hours of Uno under water.
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Saturday 19 September 2026 · US
A skunk took the field at a 76,000-seat football stadium in Arkansas, US, this morning. The grounds crew had until kickoff to catch him, safely.
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Friday 18 September 2026 · Germany
A fish roll 51 metres long broke the world record in Bremen, Germany, today. Then the rules said the crowd had to eat it.
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Thursday 17 September 2026 · EXCLUSIVE
World exclusive: Trevor's new music video
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Wednesday 16 September 2026 · Finland
An emu called Herra Hoo is on the run in the woods of Finland. Tonight a drone goes up to find him.
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Tuesday 15 September 2026 · Canada
An elk jumped through a parked car's windshield on Vancouver Island, Canada. It was chasing a lady elk.
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Monday 14 September 2026 · Poland
A moose walked into Warsaw Central station, Poland. The railway opened negotiations.
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Sunday 13 September 2026 · Sunday Edition No. 1
Three stories, one song: a radio show ran a half marathon, black puddings flew, two thousand fingers played.
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Saturday 12 September 2026 · England
A woman won the 250th St Leger at Doncaster, England, today. First ever.
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Friday 11 September 2026 · France
Paris, France, threw a Celine Dion karaoke for 10,000 today. Celine did not come.
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Thursday 10 September 2026 · Italy
A school on Stromboli, Italy, reopened today for one pupil. Aysha is six; the carabinieri walked her in.
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Wednesday 9 September 2026 · Germany
Karl-Heinz the wallaby, kept to scare foxes off the hens, hops his fence in Germany. Police go home; a vet with a blowpipe waits at the woods.
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Tuesday 8 September 2026 · England
The surest thing in British racing history loses at Goodwood. A 10-1 outsider called Wreck It Ronnie beats the 1-33 favourite.
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Monday 7 September 2026 · the Netherlands
Horse rolls through a gate into a canal in Friesland. Fire hoses fail; a farmer's Manitou lifts him out.
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Sunday 6 September 2026 · Italy
Kimi won from 19th. Our reporter is still in the coffee queue.
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Sunday 6 September 2026 · the Netherlands
Zundert runs on flower power: giant floats pushed by hand, and only the winner gets to stop
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Sunday 6 September 2026 · Scotland
400 stone skimmers sail to an island of 60 in Scotland, and only one man hits the wall
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Saturday 5 September 2026 · Hungary
Thirty-eight men race to dig the fastest grave at Hungary's grave-digging contest
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Friday 4 September 2026 · Cornwall
Sweetie the dog grounded after Falmouth firefighters fetch him off the roof
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Friday 4 September 2026 · Zurich
Buried underpants, a splash-free urinal and smelly teenagers: the 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes
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