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The World Health Organization recommends formal school programmes as the key to preventing skin cancer. Paul Higley/Shutterstock

Why schools need to take sun safety more seriously – expert explains

Being severely sunburnt as a child more than doubles the chance of developing future skin cancer but less than half of primary schools questioned in new research have a sun safety policy.
British soldiers stand behind barbed wire in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1970. Critics of the new law say it will not aid reconciliation and risks deepening divisions. (AP Photo)

New law sidesteps British culpability in Northern Ireland’s Troubles

Opponents of the U.K. government’s Northern Ireland Troubles Act argue it violates the Good Friday Agreement by denying victims their right to justice.

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