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US singer Katy Perry is first to 100m Twitter followers
The US singer-songwriter Katy Perry has become the first person to reach 100m followers on Twitter.
The website posted a video compilation of her tweets since she joined in 2009 along with a message saying "Today, we #WITNESS history".
Witness is the name of Perry's new album.
The Canadian singer Justin Bieber has the second highest number of followers at 96.7m with Barack Obama in third place with almost 91m.
The rest of the top 100 accounts are mostly made up of singers, sports stars, media companies and a few politicians, according to the website Twitter Counter.
US president Donald Trump is the most-followed current leader, in 33rd place with 32.4m followers. Two places behind him - after the boy band One Direction - is Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with 30.7m followers.
However it is not clear how many of these accounts' followers are real people and how many may be fake accounts.
Searches using the tool Twitter Audit - which analyses a sample of followers and calculates a score based on factors including the number of tweets they have sent - suggested that about two-thirds of both Perry's and Bieber's followers may not be real.
For Mr Obama and Mr Trump the figure dropped to about a third.
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In January researchers in the UK discovered massive collections of dormant fake Twitter accounts.
Some had been used to fake follower numbers, send spam and boost interest in trending topics, the researchers found.
Twitter says users are banned from writing programs that automatically followed or unfollowed accounts or which "favourited" tweets in bulk.
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London fire: Some victims will be kept unconscious for days
Hospital doctors are keeping some casualties from the Grenfell Tower fire unconscious for several days to allow them to recover from the effects of smoke inhalation.
Doctors are currently treating 24 casualties in four hospitals: 12 are in a critical condition.
All are said to be suffering from damage to the throat, lungs and airways caused by breathing in smoke.
This is the major priority for doctors, rather than external burns.
In fact, the BBC understands that no-one is being treated for burns to the skin or body.
However, breathing in smoke can cause damaging internal burns and swelling to the throat, which may not be immediately obvious.
The most serious cases will need a general anaesthetic.
This means they can be kept well-hydrated using an intravenous drip and kept under close supervision while their airways heal.
Vulnerable children
Most will also be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning, caused by breathing in noxious fumes from the fire.
They need urgent treatment with oxygen through a face mask.
Breathing in concentrated oxygen this way enables the body to recover quickly when carbon monoxide enters the bloodstream.
Babies, young children, pregnant women and people with asthma are most vulnerable to the dangers of carbon monoxide.
Most people in big cities have a level of carbon monoxide of between nought and three, and smokers of five or six.
After the fire, the Guardian reported that doctors were treating people whose readings were between 10 and 20.
In total, nearly 80 people have required hospital treatment for the effects of the fire.
At least 30 people are confirmed to have died.
While treating the physical effects of smoke inhalation is a priority in the four London hospitals - King's College Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster, Royal Free Hospital and St Mary's Paddington - the psychological impact is not being ignored.
Psychiatrists and chaplains have been on hand to help support the injured, relatives and staff.
Survivors will have witnessed traumatic sights and many may also have to deal with the loss of loved ones.
Prof Sir Simon Wessely, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, recommends turning to friends, family and religious leaders to talk through feelings.
While mental health professionals are invaluable in times of psychological need, immediately after a traumatic event it is our own strength, and those of our friends and family, that can be the most beneficial.
"Speaking to a mental health professional - a complete stranger - when you are in a state of shock, is not always the solution."
He said the public could play a part by offering practical support and information to those involved in the fire - as the community of North Kensington has been doing in force in the past few days.
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Russian space launch death stirs Kazakh resentment
Kazakhs have aired their frustration over the Russia-operated space launch facility on their territory after a Kazakh worker was killed clearing up the aftermath of a recent launch.
The launch of the Progress MS-06 supply mission to the International Space Station on 14 June from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan has been touted as a technical success by Russian operator Roscosmos.
But as the TASS news agency reports, an employee of the Russian company tasked with overseeing the areas where the rocket stages of the Soyuz-2 1a launcher fall to Earth was killed while trying to extinguish a fire on the local steppe.
The Kazakh Tengrinews website says the fire at the drop site near Zhezkazgan, some 600 km (375 miles) from the launch site, was caused by the falling rocket fragments.
Bone of contention
News of the man's death was met with dismay from Kazakh social media users. "Russia is launching its rockets and our people are running around in their own land and putting out fires. It is ridiculous," said one user. Another blamed Russia for the death: "It would be better if the rocket had fallen on the Kremlin."
The continuing presence of the Russian cosmodrome at Baikonur remains a bone of contention among some Kazakhs. Its location in the centre of the country means that anything falling to Earth - either intentionally or by accident - will land somewhere in Kazakhstan.
When a Proton rocket carrying 600 tons of toxic rocket fuel exploded seconds after launch in 2013, a local environmentalist told Russia's Interfax news agency that "the relaxed nature of our Kazakh government" was one of the reasons that Kazakhstan bore the brunt of Russian space failures.
"They leased out the space centre as if it were a barn and did nothing afterwards," Mels Eleusizov said at the time, "It is a shame on our country."
Russia's new Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian far east is expected to reduce the country's reliance on Baikonur within the next decade.
Reporting by Alistair Coleman
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Philando Castile death: Police officer found not guilty
A Minnesota police officer who shot dead a black man during a traffic stop has been found not guilty.
The verdict sparked protests in the city of St Paul, where demonstrators temporarily blocked main roads.
Jeronimo Yanez shot Philando Castile after stopping his car in Falcon Heights last July in an incident live-streamed on Facebook by his girlfriend.
Speaking on Friday, his mother Valerie said the verdict proved "the system continues to fail black people".
The case - one of a series of deaths of black men and boys at the hands of US police - prompted widespread outrage.
About 2,000 people marched through St Paul after the verdict, blocking traffic and commuter trains while chanting: "Yanez guilty."
Diamond Reynolds' video, which showed him covered in blood as an officer pointed his gun at him, was viewed by millions around the world.
She said afterwards her boyfriend had been reaching for his licence when he was shot by the policeman.
Officer Yanez, 29, was charged with second-degree manslaughter in November.
It was the first time a police officer had been charged with the death of a citizen in Minnesota, according to Judge Glenda Hatchett, who represented Mr Castile's family.
Officer Yanez told the court he was afraid for his life and said Mr Castile did not follow his orders - but prosecutors argued Mr Castile was courteous and non-threatening.
After 30 hours of deliberation on Friday, he was cleared of second-degree manslaughter and two felony counts of intentional discharge of a dangerous weapon for endangering the safety of Ms Reynolds and her daughter, four.
Valerie Castile told reporters outside the courthouse: "I'm mad as hell right now. Yes, I am.
"The system continues to fail black people."
She added: "I am so disappointed in the state of Minnesota. My son loved this state, my son loved this city and this city killed my son."
But Earl Gray, who was representing officer Yanez, told Reuters news agency "justice was done".
"We're very happy," he said. "Yanez was innocent. He was just doing his job."
However, Officer Yanez will not be returning to work for the City of St Anthony police department.
A statement on the city's website said it had "concluded that the public will be best served if Officer Yanez is no longer a police officer in our city".
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Michael Phelps to race a great white shark as part of Discovery Channel's 'Shark Week'
Michael Phelps, the most successful Olympian of all time, will race against a great white shark as part of a television show due to air in July.
A press release from the Discovery Channel promises that "the world's most decorated athlete takes on the ocean's most efficient predator".
Phelps, 31, has 23 Olympic swimming gold medals and retired after Rio 2016.
The American has a top speed of six miles per hour in the water, whereas a great white can reach 25mph.
Will it be Phelps v Shark in a pool?
"Phelps v Shark: Great Gold v Great White" will form part of the channel's "Shark Week" which begins on 23 July.
What form the race will take "is anyone's guess" according to Tooni Mahto from the Australian Marine Conservation Society.
She told BBC Radio 5 live "it is a forgone conclusion as to who is going to come out on top".
But she added: "We can all be fairly certain it's not going to be Michael Phelps versus a great white shark in an Olympic-size swimming pool.
"I'm assuming it's going to be looking at the human body in water compared to a creature that's evolved over millions of years and is perfectly adapted to its marine environment."
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Hutt River 'micronation' leaders lose Australian tax battle
It's been a turbulent year for His Royal Highness Prince Leonard I.
The 91-year-old self-proclaimed ruler of the Principality of Hutt River in Western Australia, abdicated power in February.
Now a court has ruled that he and one his sons must pay A$3m (£1.8m; $2.3m) in unpaid taxes.
The judge in the case dismissed their claims to sovereignty over their 18,500-acre farm as having "no legal merit or substance".
The Principality of Hutt River, 500km (300 miles) north of Perth, says it seceded from Australia in 1970, though the government does not acknowledge this
Self-proclaimed Prince Leonard Casley declared independence after a dispute with the government over wheat quotas.
The farm, which has a population of about 30, created its own tax system and laws and issues its own currency, stamps and passports.
Tourists can pay a few dollars for a visa and a personal tour of the site, which is bigger than the Vatican, Monaco and Nauru, but is not recognised by any government.
The Australian Tax Office has long been chasing the prince and his son, Arthur Casley - known as Prince Wayne - for overdue taxes.
In 1977, the farm briefly declared war on Australia over one demand for payment.
'It is all gobbledygook'
The latest case alleged that Prince Leonard failed to pay income tax between 2006 and 2013. A similar claim was made against his son.
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Western Australia sided with the tax office, and ordered Prince Leonard to pay A$2.7m, while Prince Wayne was ordered to pay A$242,000.
"Anyone can declare themselves a sovereign in their own home but they cannot ignore the laws of Australia or not pay tax," Justice Rene Le Miere said
"It is not sensible or a proper use of judicial resources to recite and analyse all of the defendants' utterances masquerading as legal submissions," he said.
"It is all gobbledygook."
Prince Graeme, who took over as ruler in February but was not implicated in the case, said he was "disappointed" by the court's decision.
"We're a fully independent country," he told the BBC. "We don't believe the income was earned within the Australian jurisdiction."
He suggested that an appeal may be lodged on grounds of human rights violations due to the "mental torture" caused by repeated court cases.
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