The Bank of England, London.
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Interest rate rises have an uneven effect depending on your savings, living conditions and stage of life.
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Food banks help millions of people, but have serious limitations.
Starling murmurations form as daylight fades over their roosting sites.
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Research into swarming in nature is transforming healthcare, gambling and the military.
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak speaking at the COP27 UN climate change conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
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Research found people were not confident about the government’s leadership in meeting net zero.
Preparations in 1972 in the Red Square to mark the 55th anniversary of the Russian revolution.
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A monumental book, newly translated into English, describes in painstaking, archeological detail, how the socialist project transformed the spaces in which Soviet citizens lived.
Illustration of the graves by Mirosław Kuźma.
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The findings suggest that the depth of the relationships Viking-age people had with animals have been dramatically underrepresented.
Endurance isn’t the only type of fitness linked to genetics.
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A growing body of evidence shows there are links between our genetics and fitness.
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Climate modelling in the 1980s offered the first glimpses of what might lie beyond a nuclear war.
The UN secretary general has recently released a New Agenda for Peace, recommending a special session on disarmament.
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A lack of political will has impeded any progress on disarmament for nearly four decades.
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To find out what is beyond space, a good place to start would be to figure out where space – our universe – ends.
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Sea ice extent in July 2023 has been around 10% below last year’s record low for the month.
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The US has seen a huge rise in drug deaths in the past decade involving a stimulant and a depressant.
Opec predicts oil demand will be 10% higher by the 2040s.
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Oil producers behave as if heatwaves, forest fires and rising sea levels were happening on another planet.
A guillemot nesting on a cliff ledge on Skomer Island, south Wales.
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Studying a guillemot colony for 50 years has provided unique insights into how climate change and oil spills affect seabird populations.
It’s uncertain how many people globally have ‘hourglass syndrome’.
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‘Hourglass syndrome’ can cause changes in the appearance of the stomach – and may also affect other parts of the body.
The link between fraud and terrorism financing in the UK has been overlooked by successive governments.
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Numerous terrorist attacks in the UK and abroad have been financed by fraud and the government needs to close financial loopholes to prevent future tragedies.
Most medicines are safe for most breastfed babies, while serious harm to infants is rare.
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Not enough data is being collected about the impact taking prescription medication has on breastfeeding.
Veteran campaigner: Hun Sen has held Cambodia’s prime ministership since 1985.
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As he prepares to hand over power to his son after 38 years in power, veteran Cambodian leader Hun Sen, has come a long way since his early days as a Khmer Rouge fighter.
In some Indian states, ethnic minority women have faced horrific levels of sexual violence.
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Two recent incidents involving gang rape and murder have highlighted the problems of sexual violence against women in India.
Photographer Humphrey Spender joined Mass-Observation in the 1930s, documenting British working class lives.
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Since 1937, this sociological project has sought to catalogue the nation’s feelings on everything from royal weddings and football matches to wars, dreams and elections.