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Hong Kong riot police fire tear gas at university campus amid unrest

On Monday, a protester was shot and a man set on fire in some of the most dramatic unrest to rock the city in more than five months.

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  • A new lunar landing module called Blue Moon being unveiled at the Washington Convention Centre in May. Mr Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin, said the module will be used to land humans on the Moon. Nasa rolling back the Artemis launch tower from Pad 3
  • A new lunar landing module called Blue Moon being unveiled at the Washington Convention Centre in May. Mr Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin, said the module will be used to land humans on the Moon. Nasa rolling back the Artemis launch tower from Pad 3
  • A new lunar landing module called Blue Moon being unveiled at the Washington Convention Centre in May. Mr Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin, said the module will be used to land humans on the Moon. Nasa rolling back the Artemis launch tower from Pad 3
  • A new lunar landing module called Blue Moon being unveiled at the Washington Convention Centre in May. Mr Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin, said the module will be used to land humans on the Moon. Nasa rolling back the Artemis launch tower from Pad 3
  • A new lunar landing module called Blue Moon being unveiled at the Washington Convention Centre in May. Mr Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin, said the module will be used to land humans on the Moon. Nasa rolling back the Artemis launch tower from Pad 3
  • A new lunar landing module called Blue Moon being unveiled at the Washington Convention Centre in May. Mr Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin, said the module will be used to land humans on the Moon. Nasa rolling back the Artemis launch tower from Pad 3
  • A new lunar landing module called Blue Moon being unveiled at the Washington Convention Centre in May. Mr Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin, said the module will be used to land humans on the Moon. Nasa rolling back the Artemis launch tower from Pad 3
  • Mechanical engineer Breanne Stichler with Nasa's Crawler-Transporter 2 at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida in August. She is the youngest and the first female in a while to drive the 3-million-kg machine.

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