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Good afternoon. Welcome to Newsround with me Hayley and for

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the next nine minutes, here is what I've got in store for you.

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Astronomers discover a growing galaxy of stars that's got them

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scratching their heads. A superfast plane that's trying to

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break the sound barrier. But first, in the last few hours, a

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man called toe New Nicklinson's lost his battle to get doctors to

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help him end his own life. He has locked-in syndrome which means he's

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paralysed from the neck down. He lives in extreme pain and doesn't

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want to suffer any more. At the moment, it's illegal in the UK to

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help someone to die, even if they're suffering. Tony went to

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court to try to get that law changed, today after months of

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consideration, the judges said they decided this was a decision the

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courts couldn't make. That's the job of Parliament, they said. Cases

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like this are extremely rare but Tony and his family said they plan

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to appeal. I believe the legal team acting on

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my behalf is prepared to go all the way with this. Unfortunately for me,

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it means yet another period of physical discomfort and anguish

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while we find out who controls my life, you or the state.

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Now, what a week it's been for this man, Tom Daley. He won a bronze

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medal on Saturday and today he is celebrating getting an A in Spanish

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in his A-level. Thousands of teenagers like him in England,

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Scotland and Northern Ireland got their results today and half will

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head off to university. All that might seem a long way away for you,

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but what people do when they leave school is starting to change.

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After months of hard work and exams, the results are finally in and the

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big question is, what's next? Well done... Some of you might have

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brothers and sisters heading to uni this year but this year the number

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applying has gone down 7%, one of the reasons might be that for the

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first time students in England will have to pay fees of up to �9,000 a

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year to study at uni. The Government wants to make sure more

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people can go to university if they want to, but that's not the only

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option you have when you leave school.

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Apprenticeships are one way to get a job you are interested in and get

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training at the same time. Bentley is one of the top car

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brands of the world. If you drive one of these, you have to earn

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megabucks. Every year, they take on 0 apprentices, just like these guys.

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The experience you gain from working in the industry is

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invaluable and second to none. get to earn and learn at the same

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time. In three years' time I'm going to have a degree under my

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belt, four years in a world-class company and I'll have no debts.

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People learn in different ways. Some people benefit from the hands-

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on stuff, some people are more like accustomed to academic studies.

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Whether it's designing cars in a place like this or running your own

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business, getting a dream job won't be easy. As some of the gays here

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have been finding out, there are loads of different ways to do it.

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Lots of you have been in touch to tell us you've already started

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Thanks so much, guys and keep your comments coming in. Manchester

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United have agreed a �24 million deal for Arsenal Captain Robin van

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Persie. United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says he should be

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available for selection on Monday's game against Everton as long as

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final discussions and medical checks go OK. The striker said in

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July head wouldn't stay with Arsenal because he didn't agree

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with how the club should move forward.

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Now, we've often talked on Newsround about the problems faced

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by children living in Somalia in East Africa. The country hasn't had

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a proper government for 20 years which has led to war and famine.

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Now it looks like things might be starting to change. In the next few

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weeks, elections will be helded to decide who runs the country. In

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Somali capital Mogadishu, people are beginning to rebuild their

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lives. When you think of Somalia, you

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probably wouldn't picture these scenes. A year ago, the pictures on

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TV of the capital city Mogadishu were more like this. Children

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affected by famine and violence. The City had been torn apart by

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fighting between the government and a militant Islamist group called

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Al-Shabab who controlled more than half the city. Eventually,

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Government forces managed to drive out Al-Shabab and, although they

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still remain a threat, carrying out occasional attacks, life has

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dramatically improved. Now hundreds of thousands of

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Somalis who lived as refugees outside the country are returning.

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Some come to visit. Others to rebuild their lives. These children

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have known nothing but war, but now there are signs of peace, they can

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begin to look forward to a brighter future. This 15-year-old girl says

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she's never been to school and now wants to get an education. A new

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president and Parliament is being nominated and a new Army is being

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created. Buildings are being re-developed,

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houses built and new businesses springing up around the city,

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something which was unimaginable a few months ago. For many people

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living in Somalia, the situation hasn't changed and stabilising the

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whole country is still a long way off. But for people living here in

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Mogadishu, the future is looking a little brighter.

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Next to a scientific discovery that's got the world's greatest

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minds scratching their heads. A massive cluster of galaxies has

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been discovered 5.7 billion years away from earth doing something

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unusual. Instead of not doing anything like other galaxies, this

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one is growing two new stars every day. It's forced researchers to

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reconsider how galaxies are formed. And a bit closer to earth, the US

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military's carried out test this is week on a new plane designed to fly

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at least seven times to the speed of sound. The technology is still

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being developed but if it works, you could fly between New York and

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London in just under an hour and it's got an awesome name too, here

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is Joe. This is Waverider. Cool name, cool

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concept. If things go to plan, this plane could carry paying passengers

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more than 4,000 miles an hour. That's six times the speed of sound.

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In other words, it could cut long, boring flights around the world to

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just minutes. But it's not the first time the aviation industry's

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created super fast aircraft. This is Concorde, the choice of plane

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for celebrities, rock stars and politicians. A pilot could travel

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at twice the sound of speed, which is called supersonic. Concorde is

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retired and this one's an iconic piece of aviation history. In 2003

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after 27 years of supersonic flight, Concordes were cancelled because

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they were too expensive to run and maintain. And until now, no plane

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has been built anywhere near as fast. This could be a leap forward

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even further than Concorde. Do you think we need it? The ordinary

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person wouldn't be able to pay for it, again it would be the rich and

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famous who'd use it but it would be an achievement in technology.

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Waverider's technology is being trested by the US military for

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weapons. At the moment it's dropped into the sky by a bigger plane.

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Once in flight, it's designed to ride on its own shock wave. That's

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where the nickname comes from. It's so quick that a trip from London to

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New York would take one hour, but it uses a lot of energy so, like

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Concorde, it would probably be quite expensive. It's not expected

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to be in flight for passengers until 2050 and we'll have to wait

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even longer to see if it has a better future than Concorde.

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Finally, during the Olympics, athletes who won golds each got

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their own stamp, but until today, paralympians weren't going to get

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the same special treatment. Royal Mail said it wouldn't create stamp

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force the athlete bus they've changed their mind. So we could be

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