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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan did not say Jesus Christ 'never existed'

Published on 5 December 2018 at 13:00Updated on 6 December 2018 at 10:11

Several online reports circulating on social media quote Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan as saying in a speech that: “Jesus Christ never existed”. Khan said in the speech there is no “mention of Jesus Christ in history”, though he did not say he "never existed".

No, former New Zealand cricketer Nathan McCullum has not died

Published on 4 December 2018 at 08:00

Posts on Facebook, Youtube and Twitter state that former New Zealand cricketer Nathan McCullum has died. McCullum has since tweeted that he is alive, and a New Zealand cricket fan page that he called out for falsely reporting his death has retracted its post and apologised.

No, this photo of the sun and moon did not take 16 cameras and 62 days to create

Published on 19 November 2018 at 18:00Updated on 19 November 2018 at 21:21

A viral Facebook post shares a photograph of the moon directly above the sun, framed by two trees. It claims a German photographer used 16 cameras and waited 62 days to capture the shot. The image was actually created by a Kosovar fine art photographer using Photoshop.

No, this video does not show Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi meeting Pope Francis

Published on 19 November 2018 at 17:00

A video posted on Facebook claims to show Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman whose death sentence for blasphemy was overturned last month, meeting Pope Francis after she was allowed to leave Pakistan by Prime Minister Imran Khan. The video is from 2015 and the woman shown shaking hands with the Pope is not Bibi but her teenage daughter.

No, this video does not show a nuclear weapon being used in Yemen

Published on 15 November 2018 at 13:00

A Facebook post shares a video of a huge explosion followed by the formation of a mushroom-shaped cloud and claims it was the result of a “tactical nuclear bomb” targeting civilian homes in Yemen. The explosion was actually the result of a 2015 airstrike using conventional weapons by the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen's capital Sanaa.

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