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The original jumbo jet revolutionised global travel but more efficient, reliable engines have spelt the end for the 747.
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An endless stream of self-obsessed selfies could signal your narcissistic streak.
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Why we should criticise Charlie Hebdo’s latest satirical take on racism.
We’re all watching each other on Facebook.
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Studies show that Facebook addiction and Facebook stalking are very real, and do us no good.
Preventable? Perhaps not, but with the right equipment we could prevent the next.
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Without the details that flight recorders provide, crash investigators cannot fully understand the causes of catastrophe.
Kimye.
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There is some dismay at the idea of academic attention being paid to these celebrities.Here’s why it’s important.
Open door.
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The higher education sector needs to think what it can offer to the average taxpayer.
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People living in their forests must be on board too – and they don’t always subscribe to Western conservation values.
Is sugar the answer for tackling cancer cells?
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Eating less sugar isn’t enough to stop glucose-hungry cancer cells but new research points the way to how we might starve them to death.
Palmyra’s Temple of Bel, pre-Islamic State.
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The robust international laws meant to protect cultural heritage are worth little without real international action.
Relentless scorn.
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The government’s recent Green Paper spells our a vision of far smaller BBC. Coincidentally, this is just what Rupert Murdoch and his newspapers have campaigned for over decades.
Hawker Hunter WV372, the aircraft that crashed at Shoreham.
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The first loss of life among airshow spectators since 1952, any changes to rules that follow will make them safer still.
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Classical or hip-hop, music often feels like it has healing properties and now scientists have proved it.
Dead and gone.
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A stalwart of the charity sector is dead and gone - so now what do we do?
Atomic cloud over Nagasaki.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were but two cataclysms among many: in the literal sense, they were unremarkable.
On the sidelines no more.
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Why are Syria and Israel competing to be the ultimate protecters of the Druze?
Getting away with murder.
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The Look of Silence eschews its predecessor’s gory glamour and offers a harder message for modern Indonesia.
The many presentations of breast cancer.
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Long gone are the days when breast cancer was seen as a tumour with an underlying relationship with oestrogen. The picture is much more complex.
Inside the courtroom on the first day of the trial of 69 Golden Dawn members.
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The prosecution of 69 members of Greece’s extreme right political party must be constitutional, fair and conducted in the full glare of public attention.
A far cry from the UK.
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New research on Norway shows how political integration with the EU has economic benefits too.