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High streets are being taken over in a battle between specialty cafés and the
mega chains.
Numbers crunched.
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New statistics show the UK has half a trillion pounds less in its account than previously thought.
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Should we care about the loss of an industry that normally lives in the shadows?
The second annual International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating is an attempt by universities around the world to raise awareness about students who hire others to do their work.
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Across Canada and around the world, thousands of students are paying cash for good grades - in tests, essays and even PhD theses. On Oct. 18, 2017, universities globally are fighting back.
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Could we really reduce the number of vehicles on our roads from 37m to 9m?
Harvey Weinstein (third from left) faces allegations, but it’s not just a problem in showbiz.
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The nature of the entertainment industry has always made some more vulnerable.
Deal or no deal?
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Publishing plans for a no-deal Brexit will not help the UK’s negotiating position.
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Theresa May wants to rapidly increase the supply of affordable homes, but will have to tread carefully on Britain’s talismanic property wealth.
The site of Australia’s 1996 Port Arthur massacre, which brought about stricter gun laws, has a memorial.
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Australian and UK scholars weigh in on what firearm regulations in their countries have accomplished.
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The UK has a gold-plated health service, but for how much longer?
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Too many economists have refused to take seriously the idea that Brexit could economically benefit the UK.
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As the government moves ahead with its industrial plan, a new report signals it will have to start doing things differently.
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A clueless Tory government and a degenerate EU bureaucracy are locked in a pointless conflict. There must be something more than this.
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Workers will soon get to see just how fat the fat cats have become.
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The general assumption in the UK is that regulation is a drag on enterprise, but a closer look at the costs and benefits suggests this might not be the case.
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Could the ‘magic money tree’ have been right under our nose this whole time?
The princess of Wales is pictured in Bonn, Germany in 1987.
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To succumb to conspiracy is to be human.
Young doctoral candidate on the stage of the competition “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” at Polytechnique.
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Despite an international context in transformation, the doctorate seems to have difficulty evolving in Europe. What are experiments have been tried and what are the avenues of innovation?
Otto John, middle, in Berlin in 1954.
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The 1954 defection of West Germany’s first domestic spy chief and ardent anti-Nazi rocked the world – and then he returned to Bonn.
In danger.
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Volunteers are leading the investigation into a vicious UK animal killer.