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星舰第一次进入轨道：放出二十六颗星链卫星，飞了三小时就提前返回 — Starship Reaches Orbit for the First Time, Deploys 26 Starlink Satellites — Then Comes Home Early (opens the original)
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SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time on its 14th test flight, launched Monday 28 September 2026 around 8:49 a.m. EDT from Starbase, Texas. One of the ship's six engines shut down early; a SpaceX spokesperson briefly said the orbit attempt was off before controllers pressed ahead. The ship reached a roughly 275 km circular orbit about 25 minutes in; Musk: 'First orbital flight of Starship successful!' The Super Heavy booster made a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about s
大熊猫平平和福双抵达亚特兰大：熊猫外交又一次登场 — Giant Pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang Land in Atlanta as Panda Diplomacy Returns (opens the original)
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Giant pandas Ping Ping (male, born March 2020) and Fu Shuang (female, born October 2020) flew overnight from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on a FedEx cargo plane painted with a panda, arriving at Zoo Atlanta on Sunday 27 September for a 10-year stay, days after Xi Jinping's White House visit where he promised 'envoys of friendship'. They are in quarantine for about a month; Chinese staff stay three months. Zoo Atlanta's previous pandas (Lun Lun, Yang Yang and twins Ya Lun and
天上掉快递：亚马逊无人机让得州小城居民受不了 — Boxes Falling From the Sky: Amazon's Delivery Drones Are Driving a Texas Suburb Up the Wall (opens the original)
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Richardson, a Dallas suburb, is one of the first US cities where Amazon is testing Prime Air drone delivery. Dozens of drones a day fly from a distribution center; each is about 5 ft by 5 ft and weighs 83 lb, hovers about 12 ft above the ground and drops the box. Footage shows a package dropped into a pool and a drone crashing into an apartment building. Residents call their neighbourhood a 'drone highway' and hate the noise, the sight and the cameras ('Can we not have one day of peace?'); compl
假蜂蜜、假驼奶、减肥糖和“幽灵外卖”：最高法公布网络食品安全犯罪典型案例 — Fake Honey, Fake Camel Milk, Diet Sweets and 'Ghost Takeout': China's Top Court Publishes Typical Online Food-Safety Crimes (opens the original)
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China's Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate published typical cases of online food-safety crime. Fake honey: a man surnamed Huang in Changge, Henan, mixed syrup and flavourings, labelled it as imported linden honey, sold it at about 6 yuan per jin with 'buy one get five', 1,200 orders a day and over 2.06m yuan in sales (one listing sold 34,000 orders in two months); no bee protein found; 15 years and a 1.2m yuan fine. Fake camel milk powder sold to elderly people and studen
十一岁开店、五十万粉丝：英国小城的解压玩具店靠抖音国际版火了 — Opened at 11, Half a Million Fans: How TikTok Shop Turned a Small-Town British Fidget-Toy Shop Into a Hit (opens the original)
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Funky Fidgets, a sensory-toy shop in Darlington, northern England, was founded by Alex at 11 during the covid-19 pandemic; she is now 16, studying accountancy, and the firm ships worldwide with 14 staff. Most orders come via TikTok Shop, which about 300,000 British small businesses use (most joined in the past year). Britain has taken to live commerce faster than its European neighbours as high streets decline; about 57% of Gen Z and Millennials watch shopping streams; a butcher 70km north says
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