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In 2011, treasure hunters found a disc-shaped object on the Baltic seabed. Is it a crashed spacecraft or just a rock? Bradley Walsh investigates.

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The Vory refers to an elite section of the Russian criminal underworld. Those with the title operate under a strict code, but ...

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