18/05/2016 Newsround


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You're watching Newsround this Wednesday morning.

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I'm Ricky with all your top stories.

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The pesky peacocks causing problems.

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And the meteor caught on camera.

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First up, and the International Space Station has been

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circling our planet since 1998.

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This week it achieved a truly epic milestone.

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Here's Ayshah with more.

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The International Space Station has passed its 100,000th

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orbit of the Earth.

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It's travelled more than 2.6 billion miles.

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That's about the same distance as ten trips from Earth to Mars.

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The ISS is home to six people, who circle the Earth every 90

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minutes, and get to enjoy a spectacular sunrise

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and sunset every 45 minutes.

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And it's been part of 1,922 scientific investigations.

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It's been 15 and a half years of continuous human presence

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on board this orbital outpost.

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Over 220 astronauts and cosmonauts from 18 different countries have

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lived or visited here.

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The Space Station travels at around five miles per second,

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250 miles above Earth.

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Pretty fast for something that's 357 feet long.

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That's about the same length as a football pitch.

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The ISS probably won't reach 200,000 orbits before it's retired,

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but for now, this spacecraft has some more cruising to do.

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It's a tribute to the team that designed it, that put it together;

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the programmes that keep us flying safe.

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100,000 orbits.

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The journey continues.

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Football now, and Liverpool are fighting for the Europa League

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title this evening.

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They're taking on defending champions Sevilla in the final,

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at Basel in Switzerland.

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We asked Liverpool fans to tell us what a win

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would mean for them.

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Chloe said, "It would be so awesome, and I would be dancing and screaming

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with joy."

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And Anne said, "I think it would be great,

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because it is an amazing chance."

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Thanks for those comments -

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to have your say go to the Chat page online.

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Next: They're loud, they're large and living in people's back gardens.

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These peacocks are on the move in Suffolk in the East of England.

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The birds have damaged plants, cars and woken people up

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with their loud calls.

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No-one seems to know where they came from.

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A local farmer has offered to take them in - but catching the peacocks

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to re-home them is proving to be very difficult.

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Finally, it's the question hundreds of thousands of people across social

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media have been debating: Are these emojis the same monkey making

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three different faces, or three different monkeys?

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That got us thinking about other great online debates,

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so here's Jenny with some of our favourites.

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I know what you're thinking - is this cat going up

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or down the stairs?

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The optical illusion racked up thousands of hits

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online in April 2015.

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Because of the way the light falls it's difficult to decide

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whether the cat is moving up or down.

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It's thought the clue is in the moggy's tail.

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What do you think?

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Is this dress blue/black or white/gold?

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Back in February 2015 this picture got millions

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of people seriously confused, as no-one could decide

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what colour it was.

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It's because colours can appear differently depending on what kind

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of light they're in.

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Next up, a real puzzler.

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How would a dog wear trousers?

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It all started when a meme with an illustration of a dog

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wearing trousers two different ways was uploaded to social media.

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It got more than 60,000 likes and shares, and in a Twitter

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vote the two-legged version won most support.

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Which brings us to these - emojis.

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What do you reckon?

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One monkey making three separate faces, or three different monkeys?

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Hundreds of thousands of people have had a lot to say about it,

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and in one poll it was a close call.

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More than 200,000 people voted, and 53% of them think the monkey

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emojis are just one monkey making three

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different faces.

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Hmm.

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What about Newsround presenters, though?

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Next, a US police sergeant looking for speeders captured something

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he wasn't expected yesterday.

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What looked like a giant fireball streaking across the sky was caught

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on Sergeant Tim Farris' dashboard camera.

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The bright flash was seen from several states,

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and is thought to have been left by a meteor burning up as it passed

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through Earth's atmosphere.

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That's all from me; Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.

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