09/05/2017 Newsround


09/05/2017

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Ricky here with all of Tuesday's big stories.

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Find out who'll be Strictly's new head judge...

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The space trip with a secret mission...

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And kids in Finland take on an unusual sport - keep watching.

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But first, more than 80 schoolgirls are back home

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with their families this week, three years after they were taken

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It was a story that shocked the world,

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They are home. These schoolgirls in Nigeria in Africa are now back with

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their families for the first time in three years. 276 of them were taken

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from their school by an extreme Islamist group called Boko Haram,

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who believed that all children should not be allowed to have an

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education. The girls went to school in an area that can be dangerous

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because of fighting between extremists and the government.

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People all over the world was shocked when they went missing and

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started a campaign. More than 70 girls had already escaped or been

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released, and on Saturday another 82 girls were returned. After they were

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handed over, the girls were checked over by doctors to make sure they

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were OK and then taken to meet the Nigerian president and reunited with

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their families. People asked to campaigning for the rest of the

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girls to be released. Their families now have new Hope this could happen.

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If you want to know more about this story or if you are upset by

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anything in the news, go to Newsround online.

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Next up parades, flags and dancing because people

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in the channel islands are celebrating Liberation Day.

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The Channel Islands are made up of four small islands, Guernsey,

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The Islands were invaded by the Germans during

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Each year on May the 9th people there remember the day the islands

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It's important to celebrate the liberation because it is quite

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unique to us. This day is only celebrated by the Channel Islands

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and not so much by the UK as a whole. Everybody is glad we are free

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and that's why everybody is here today. We need to celebrate it and

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be thankful. There are soldiers that bravely fought for us and remember

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that's why we are here today. He was Strictly's head

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judge for 14 series so it came as quite a shock

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when Len Goodman told us Strictly Come Dancing have

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just announced that his The Queen of Latin

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dance, Shirley Ballas. She will join Craig,

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Darcy and Bruno later this year. Next, to the mysterious space plane

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that's just returned Touchdown after a top-secret mission

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lasting two years. This unmanned US military space plane landed at the

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Kennedy space Centre in the US causing a sonic boom. Sonic booms

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happen on something flies faster than the speed of sound and it makes

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a really loud noise. Exactly what the plane has been up to during its

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718 days in orbit is not clear. It belongs to the US Air Force. Its

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mission is classified, but the small bit of information we do know is

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that this space plane has no one on board. It is 29 feet long with a

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wingspan of 15 feet, much smaller than Nasa's all space shuttles. It's

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thought a series of experiments are being carried out on board testing

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different technologies and materials in space. But still, a lot of what

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happens on this plane is kept secret. When it came in to land it

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caused a sonic boom with one Twitter user living nearby saying her house

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was shaking and dog went into a frenzy. Another mission is scheduled

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later this year. Last up, a new sport has taken over

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the nation of Finland, it's really popular with girls,

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but it's a bit unusual. Can you tell

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what makes it a bit weird? It's called hobby horsing,

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and the competitors ride around They even trot around

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and leap over jumps just That's all from me,

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Newsround's back in the morning with loads more great stories.

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Bye.

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