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WARSAW, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O) faces an investigation in Poland over whether its new rules on privacy and personal data processing for iOS devices violate competition law, Polish antimonopoly watchdog UOKiK said on Monday.

Apple rolled out an update of its iOS operating system in April with new privacy controls designed to limit digital advertisers from tracking iPhone users.

The Polish regulator said Apple's new rules have significantly reduced the ability of third-party apps to obtain personal data in order to send personalised adverts.

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The James Webb Telescope will peer into one of the earliest phases of the universe. ASTRIUM HO/ ASTRIUM/AFP/File

The €10billion James Webb space telescope - the largest and most powerful space observatory ever built - is finally set to launch from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana on 22 December.

A collaboration between NASA, the ESA and the Canadian Space Agency, the telescope will help answer fundamental questions about the universe, peering back in time 13.5 billion years. Here are five things to know.

The telescope's centerpiece is its enormous primary mirror, a concave structure 6.5 metres wide and made up of 18 smaller hexagonal mirrors. They're made from beryllium coated with gold, optimised for reflecting infrared light from the far reaches of the universe.

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ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet in the US spacewalk suit pillars

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French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has arrived in Cologne, Germany, after safely landing on earth with three International Space Station colleagues early on Tuesday morning. He will now spend three weeks recuperating and undergoing laboratory tests to see how his body has reacted to spending 200 days in orbit. He has already set his sights on a Moon mission alongside the Americans in the coming years.

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