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But many Russians do feel that life is getting harder and few seem to believe it will get any easier anytime soon.

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Now, in our previous edition, we told you about the big winners from the BAFTA Film Awards, including a surprise win for the British actor Robert Aramayo.

His film, I Swear, is about John Davidson, a campaigner for Tourette's syndrome, which can cause sudden, involuntary and repetitive movements or sounds known as tics.

Mr Davidson was in the audience and his shouting could be heard several times during the ceremony.

When two black actors, Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan, went up on stage to present an award, the audience heard Mr Davidson use a racial slur.

The show's presenter, Alan Cumming, apologised.

Mr Davidson left the ceremony partway through, reportedly of his own accord.

Oscar winner Jamie Foxx posted that the slur was unacceptable.

And now the BBC has apologised for not editing out the highly offensive term, despite the broadcast being on a two-hour delay.

Lauren Wyatt was diagnosed with Tourette's when she was 17 and shares her experience of the condition on social media.

What's her perspective on what happened at the BAFTAs?

Lauren Wyatt.

Deep in the Sahara Desert, paleontologists have made a spine-tingling find, a new species of dinosaur, a spinosaurus with a long horn on its head.

The expedition to the remote site in Niger was led by Dr. Paul Serino from the University of Chicago.

His team first discovered fossils at the site in 2019, but

But it wasn't until they returned with a larger mission in 2022 after the pandemic that they realised the bones belonged to a new species of Spinosaurus dating back about 95 million years.

Dr Serino talked us through his amazing discovery.