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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Gillil and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 4th of August, these are our main

stories.

A European study has found that the temperature of the world's oceans has reached its

highest recorded level.

India's top court suspends the conviction of the opposition leader Rahul Gandhi in a defamation

case, allowing him to contest national elections next year.

Also, in this podcast, the Commonwealth Games suffers another blow as a Canadian province

cancels a bid to host it weeks after Australia pulled out, and the would-be rapper who's

pleaded guilty to laundering billions of dollars of bitcoin.

The oceans have reached their hottest ever recorded temperature, another sign of the

accelerating effects of climate change.

The average daily global sea surface temperature was a whisker under 21 degrees Celsius this

week, according to the EU's climate change service, Copernicus.

That's far above the average for this time of year, which is about 16 degrees Celsius.

Temperatures have been slowly increasing for decades.

Dr Samantha Burgess from Copernicus says it's a dangerous long-term trend.

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