UK house prices fell in April 2024 according to one national index – but it probably won’t do much to aid affordability.
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UK house prices may have dropped from their COVID peak, but here’s why that isn’t likely to make homes any more affordable.
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Most social media PR blurb is designed to convince the public these tech companies are a benign force for good. What the public really needs is a public service internet.
Regular exercise may help lower risk of many common cancers.
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A 30-minute workout five times a week may be all you need.
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Katherine Browne and Margaret Angula talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about a UN pilot in Namibia that’s pioneering community-led climate adaptation.
Keeping faith: Volodymyr Zelensky poses for a selfie with Ukrainian troops near the frontlines in Chasiv Yar.
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The impact of the massive US aid package approved last month has yet to be felt on the battlefield.
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Your home was designed for another era, here’s what’s needed now.
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Basing admissions to some schools on faith fragments the education system.
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The synchronisation involved in music and dance may be the “active ingredient” in their social bonding effects.
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The tech company has been seeking to licence content from a variety of media companies.
The recreated head of Shanidar Z, made by the Kennis brothers for the Netflix documentary ‘Secrets of the Neanderthals’ based on 3D scans of the reconstructed skull.
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Scientists can’t yet tell how soft tissue overlayed bones, so this reconstruction is inevitably based on artistic licence.
Is Beirut back to the era of the militias?
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Lebanon’s precarious sectarian balance is tipping as militias take hold again.
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AI may be destroying civilisations before they get a chance to explore space properly.
One of Narendra Modi’s grand plans as Indian prime minister has been to build a giant Hindu temple at Ayodhya on the site of a demolished mosque.
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Narendra Modi looks set to win a third term in power. One of his strategies for success is to exploit the country’s religious differences.
Broadstairs, Kent.
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Day trippers often use local resources without making any economic contribution.
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AstraZeneca withdrawing it COVID vaccine from the market has nothing to do with blood clots.
Can Dove square its reported anti-AI stance with its attempts to make artificial images more representative?
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Beauty brand Dove hit the headlines for rejecting AI in its marketing – but there’s more to the claims than meets the eye.
People attend a protest against knife crime at the location in south London where 15-year-old Elianne Andam was stabbed to death in September 2023.
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Until government addresses the link between cuts to funding public services and the rise in knife crime, the violence children and young people are facing will continue.
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Also known as alkaline hydrolysis or aquamation, the process is much better for the environment than burial or cremation.
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New AI-based research suggests chemicals known for their negative health effects are produced in the most popular flavoured vapes. We need for tighter regulation on vapes – fast
Soldiers at a traditional Victory Day parade in Red Square, Moscow.
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Putin has encouraged a group of young people to hand out a special ribbon representing the ‘glories’ of Russian history.
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Viewers were concerned that the reality TV star struggled to breathe in her ultra-tight corset while posing on the red carpet
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The far-right Alternative for Germany is courting the youth vote on TikTok with great success, ahead of the elections in June.
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Though it seemed like music for the inner cities, 2-Tone sought to take its message of inclusion to young people in less racially mixed small towns and rural areas too.
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The climate ‘flickered’ between wet and dry, before finally drying out for good.
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There is plenty in the bill to cause concern, says expert in medical law and ethics.