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Key players in the GameStop affair have appeared in front of a US Congressional Committee. The price of the video game store's shares rose from less than $20 at the beginning of January to more than $350 in a matter of weeks. Politico's Nancy Scola tells us what we've learnt. In the past few hours a NASA spacecraft that left Earth seven months ago has successfully landed on the surface of Mars. We hear what's hoped to be discovered from Luther Beegle, one of the scientists involved in the mission. Plus, Facebook pages of all local and global news sites are now unavailable and people outside the country are also unable to read or access any Australian news publications on the platform. Facebook is responding to a proposed law which would make tech giants pay for news content on their platforms; we hear from Bruce Ellen, President of Country Press Australia, which represents news outlets across the country. There's a big piracy problem along a huge stretch of the coast of west Africa - from Senegal right down to Angola, as Marie Keyworth reports. Plus, things are changing in the world of fairy tales; we hear from Trish Cooke who's starting a new publishing venture, involving a modern retelling of the Rapunzel, Pinocchio and Jack and the Beanstalk stories.

(Picture: Keith Gill, an investor known as 'Roaring Kitty', gives evidence at the US Congressional Hearing into GameStop. Credit: CSPAN.)