Virus spread in France showing signs of slowing – as it happened
by Jessica Murray (now); Sarah Marsh, Lucy Campbell, from Science | The Guardian on (#5AW25)
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I'll leave you with this story of the Austrian village which has renamed itself Fugging after years of ridicule for its previous - more explicit in English - name.
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