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Reports of the death of radio are, as ever, exaggerated – but it could re-engage with younger listeners.
Best friends.
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More than 800 students told researchers what they value most in their friends.
Deal agreed.
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Theresa May could game Conservative MPs by placing them into a ‘prisoner’s dilemma’.
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Mean annual air temperature on Everest is –13°C at 7,000 metres elevation, and yet the ice in its highest glacier is only –3.3°C.
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The link that Ronald McDonald House creates between itself and sick children is not just positive, it is sacrosanct.
Sharing stories in the South Hebron Hills.
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Cultural heritage establishes closer ties between a community and the land it lives – and relies – on.
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Expect more member states to ‘do a Spain’ once future relationship talks commence.
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The education system needs an urgent re-think to give children from disadvantaged backgrounds a better chance in life.
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The right advice on nutrition is not always reaching pregnant women.
Discussions on a citizens’ assembly in Cluj, Romania in June 2018.
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The EU urgently needs to improve the link between its citizens and its institutions.
Rubberly jubbly: Roger Law with Margaret Thatcher.
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Royals, politicians and pop stars were all fair game for this smash hit show of the 1980s and 1990s.
Preparing chipatis at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, in Walsall.
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Theresa May is courting ethnic minority support for her Brexit deal with her rhetoric on EU nationals ‘jumping the queue’.
One of the plundered Benin plaques, at the British Museum.
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Colonial powers plundered the heritage of countries all over the world – restitution is long overdue.
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New research suggests crypto-currencies aren’t technically property in common law jurisdictions.
Satellite image from Himawari-8. The bright pink spot indicates the dust storm location.
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Dust storms look spectacular but are a serious health hazard. As climate change dries up many areas of the world, what can we expect from these storms in future?
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In moderate doses, alcohol is more of a medicine than a poison.
Social robots are one way to provide lonely seniors with companionship.
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Robots address challenges care systems face – and could even provide companionship to those who need it most.
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Ancient Egyptians believed shaving was associated with cleanliness but Greeks were proud of their beards, which symbolised authority and wisdom.
An ice-sheet in Greenland’s Inglefield Land is hiding the Hiawatha crater.
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Meteorite impacts have fundamentally shaped the history of our planet.
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The slaughtered tigers were not bred in zoos, yet their story should put captive breeding in general into question.
Much has changed since the Rana Plaza disaster but a compensation scheme still to be brought in.
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Five years on from the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, improvements have been made. But workers compensation is still to happen.
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There’s also long been great social distance between the US national press and large swathes of the country, and Trump’s distaste for the former reflects the frustration felt by millions of Americans.
‘The kiss’ was probably the most memorable, if not the first, of early on-screen interracial embraces.
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Star Trek’s groundbreaking interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura was 50 years ago today – how have public attitudes to interracial and interethnic relationships changed in the years since?
Viktor Orban and Matteo Salvini, two of Europe’s best known ‘populist’ leaders.
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It’s a slippery concept but academics have reached agreement on some of its fundamental elements.
A long way yet to go.
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A leaked version of the political declaration shows that Brexit is by no means ‘sorted’ yet.