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Cold water drowning kills many people every year. But can it also provide curative benefits? We asked an expert.
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The Victorian idea of Christmas pre-dates Dickens. What the writer did was bring an essentially rural celebration into an urban setting.
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We're pouring cold water on old ideas in this episode: from why the population of Easter Island really declined and what makes a good urban legend.
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Parents say they homeschool for a number of reasons including, lifestyle, dissatisfaction or disagreements with local schools, special needs, bullying and religion.
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Prescribing a drug for a condition it hasn’t been tested for may sound reckless, but off-label prescribing has a useful function in medicine.
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Thanks to the way they are portrayed in films and books, the Knights Templar have become identified with narrow-minded nationalism. This is unjust and inaccurate.
Prince Harry is to marry Meghan Markle in May 2018.
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Two tourism experts assess the evidence on whether visitors are drawn to the UK by the monarchy.
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A surprising case in Queensland, Australia is changing the way we think about what can be used an official document after your death.
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The Campaign Against Killer Robots has launched a terrifying film showing why lethal drones need to be banned.
Don’t jump to conclusions: protesters in Kashmir with a mocked-up IS flag.
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Just because a group waves the IS flag or claims to be its friend doesn’t mean a global insurgency is underway.
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Rowe’s was a particularly harrowing case. But it raises important questions about broader attitudes to the virus.
The execution of the eight surviving conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot.
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It wasn’t just ‘mindless’ brutality – but it should remind us that violence too often begets violence.
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Busloads of people rubber-necking their favourite movie location can be a pest, but fan tourism is a growing business.
The lack of awareness of this growing problem is a big issue.
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Breast cancer could kill 76,000 Indian women a year by 20220, according to new research.
Fellow travellers? Theresa May sporting a Frida Kahlo bracelet.
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The Mexican artist and fervent Stalinist would be surprised to discover Theresa May’s choice of bracelet.
Graffiti représentant le zéro, ce symbole révolutionnaire des maths.
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L’invention du zéro a révolutionné les mathématiques et permis, rien de moins, que l’invention des ordinateurs.
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Court ruling casts shadow on Japan’s tattoo industry.
Bearing the brunt of wider failures.
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An overhaul of the probation system has left the justice system foundering.
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Turning zero from a punctuation mark into a number paved the way for everything from algebra to algorithms.
Why aren’t people entitled to benefits claiming them?
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Means-tested benefits are designed to ensure a minimum standard of living for Britain’s poorest families.