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World - / Jun 23, 2026 - Honouring father's memory: British man is dribbling a football 2,000 miles from Africa to England to raise money for charity - James Lewis, a 26-year-old football coach from Staffordshire, is undertaking an extraordinary challenge that combines endurance, football and a deeply personal mission. Since setting off from Marrakesh, Morocco, on 1 May, Lewis has been dribbling a

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World - / Jun 23, 2026 - Garden Soil Powers Electronics: Bactery taps microbes for clean energy; aims at farm sensors and future homes - Somewhere under a patch of ordinary garden soil, billions of bacteria are quietly going about their business eating organic matter, releasing electrons, and in doing so, producing a faint but constant electrical charge. For most of human history

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