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Exercise can help relieve period pain.
A riot that kick-started the gay rights movement.
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Fifty years after the Stonewall riots, what is their political legacy for LGBTQ activism?
‘It’ll never catch on!’
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You can’t fix financial literacy with digital wallets.
Edward Lloyd founded the first million-selling newspaper.
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As well as founding England’s first million-selling newspaper, Lloyd shamelessly sold plagiarised versions of some of Charles Dickens’ best-loved novels.
Paddy Minne
The debacle has highlighted the negative image which unionism must lay to rest for good or face extinction.
London - June 19 2018: Volunteers cleaning the southern shores of the Thames from waste during low tide.
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It’s not just the ocean we need to worry about – plastic is accumulating in the world’s rivers, too.
The world’s 20 largest economies are gathering to boost cooperation.
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Trade wars are symptoms of underlying economic problems rather than their cause.
Fishing boats in Gunjur, The Gambia.
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Locals accuse a fishmeal factory of polluting their waters.
Pedo Pablo Kuczynski, a former president of Peru, was arrested in April 2019 on charges relating to the Odebrecht scandal.
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Four former presidents have been accused of corruption after Operation Carwash.
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Large studies are unpicking the complex relationships between food, metabolism and health.
School climate strikes in London, February 2019.
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I have studied radical environmental groups for years – they will be key to keeping government honest.
Emma Thompson is populist demoagogue Vivienne Rook.
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Tune in, Donald Trump: it might just save a lot of lives.
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Cold water shock explained.
Walls create deep divisions. Just ask the Cubans.
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Walls needn’t be impenetrable to divide people, as Cuba’s Trocha made all too clear.
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It’s time race equality was practised in the academy, not just preached.
Artist’s impression of the NanoSail D satellite in orbit with solar sail.
NASA
Scientists are hoping to turn tiny spacecraft into starships by coupling them with large solar sails.
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The Voynich Manuscript has researchers, the media, and the public hooked. But pseudo-explanations for the book’s ‘code’ reveals a serious problem with society’s relationship with science.
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Citizens’ assemblies could be vital in kick-starting the tough steps needed to safeguard a healthy world – but the detail for how they will work will be important.
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Treatment needs to focus on fewer antidepressants, more lithium and supportive group education.
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Scotland is eyeing another independence referendum and now Wales wants in on the act. England feels left behind and Northern Ireland is at the centre of the Brexit impasse. Things aren’t fine.
Syrian refugee families in Gazza village, in the Beqaa valley, Lebanon, January 30 2019.
EPA-EFE/Nabil Mounzer
Syrian refugees in Lebanon know how best to manage their resources, but food aid currently prevents them.
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Not a single trial has investigated the best painkillers to use for children with cancer.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leading the Eid al-Fitr prayer ceremony in Tehran in early June.
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Donald Trump stepped back from launching US airstrikes inside Iran, but the conflict is unabated and there appears to be no way out of confrontation for now.
The fruit of your coins.
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Why the coming generation of cryptocurrencies could force us to rethink the entire monetary system.
British Steel workers face an uncertain post-industrial future.
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The experience of former industrial heartlands offers lessons in how to revitalise communities when big industries close.