Pollice Verso (With a Turned Thumb) by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1872).
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Death was always a possibility, but gladiator combat was controlled by referees.
Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, home to one million Rohingya refugees, is prone to flooding.
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Refugee settlements are particularly affected by high temperatures and extreme rainfall, even more so than the rest of their host countries.
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Unlocking the full potential of retirement: embracing fun, connections and new experiences.
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Making sure you have enough set aside for a long retirement has become more difficult over the past 25 years.
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The UK needs to fix its recycling system for a more sustainable future.
The Windrush arrives at Tilbury docks on 22 June 1948.
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The Windrush generation has a long and storied history encompassing empire, war, migration, multiculturalism, racism and scandal – a history that has transformed British society and culture.
Postnatal depression symptoms are quite similar to depression symptoms.
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Postnatal depression is thought to affect up to 10% of fathers.
The weekly gouge.
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Rishi Sunak is proposing to introduce voluntary caps for staples like milk and bread.
Armed and dangerous: Wagner Group boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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The Wagner Group boss is becoming increasingly critical of the way the war is being run.
Farmland birds like the corn bunting have seen their numbers plummet since 1980.
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Insect-eating birds such as swifts and yellow wagtails are particularly vulnerable.
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Rubbish can be reused or recycled – or it may end up in a dumpsite.
‘Be a man’: Russian marine conscripts at a departure ceremony at Trinity Cathedral in St Petersburg.
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The Kremlin’s appeals to Russian masculinity will miss the mark. Russian men have changed over the past two decades.
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Lung and thyroid cancers are the least well-funded cancers compared to their global burdens.
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Education, contacts and luck can play a considerable role when it comes to building up wealth.
Investigators inspect a building after a Ukrainian drone reportedly damaged an apartment building in Moscow on May 30.
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Drone strikes in Moscow are just one sign of an intensifying air war ahead of Ukraine’s offensive.
Recycling can be a bit of a headache.
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Confusion about what should and shouldn’t be recycled? You’re not alone – and it’s causing some people to ignore recycling altogether.
Leadership potential.
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In the rapidly changing, ambiguous and unpredictable world of work, future leaders must be able to learn fast.
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Once again ethnic tensions have boiled over in Kosovo.
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Wakefulness drugs like Modafinil point to a new frontier of technosleep driven by personal goals rather than medical need.
Common sense is broadly defined as a shared set of beliefs and approaches to thinking about the world.
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We often view common sense as an authority of collective knowledge that is universal and constant.