Does this book still exist after Manchester’s clearout?
Tim Brockley
We’ve lost a lot of libraries and a lot of books since 2010. The UK can’t face any more cuts.
Which football team do I support again?
Andy Rain/EPA
Ordinary bloke or posh twit? Meet the ancient Greek David Cameron.
Come in MESSENGER, your time is up.
NASA/JHU APL/Carnegie Institution of Washington
After ten years in space NASA probe will get up close and personal with Mercury a final time.
The galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, locked in a destructive embrace.
ESA/Hubble/NASA
After a slow start, Hubble’s ultraviolet vision changed the face of astronomy.
Eruption of the Calbuco volcano, seen from Puerto Montt.
EPA/Francisco Negroni
Two big eruptions have caused pyroclastic flows and high-altitude ash clouds over South America.
So, was this your first choice of primary school?
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
Working out how to solve the school place shortage will be a key priority for any new government.
Hackers in seat 61? Not what passengers want to see in-flight.
Reddit
If passengers are to be offered in-flight Wi-Fi, then airlines should add another black box to record what’s happening on their networks.
Try to look past the apostrophe…
Lee Haywood
The election campaign has so far skirted round the genuine dangers which face whoever is in Downing Street next month.
Cratered surface of Ceres in colour.
NASA/JPL-Caltec/UCLA
Approaching Ceres, the Dawn spacecraft reveals the dwarf planet in colour for the first time.
Welcome to your summer holidays, 750m years ago.
Eli Duke
More evidence that planet Earth has gone through various frozen phases.
Speaking up.
EPA/Stephen B. Morton
We still blindly accept the police accounts of their behaviour. Why?
Good thing we don’t have superbugs in hospital yet.
Snake3yes
Reviving old remedies doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know.
A familiar sight? It might soon become one.
Owen Humphreys/PA Archive
The next government may have a teachers’ strike on its hands within months if it fails to address what unions have called a schools funding crisis. The National Union of Teachers has backed a motion to…
UCL sits solidly in the top ten of universities who receive the most research funding.
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Which higher education institutions get the most money and why?
Are the years of hostility coming to an end? The former US embassy in Tehran.
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And so it came, after years of protracted negotiations, extended deadlines and a diplomatic dance of unprecedented proportions – a deal that could signal a new era for Iran’s relations with the world.
Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco ‘The Creation of Man’ on the vault of the Sistine Chapel. c. 1511. Michelangelo.
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Here are the facts behind four commonly held beliefs about Ancient Greek sexuality.
One different wave lengths.
EPA/Stephanie Pilick
The advocates (and beneficiaries) of austerity are succeeding in cornering the country worst hit by the euro crisis.
Detail of head of Apoxyomenos. Bronze, Hellenistic or Roman replica after a bronze original.
© Tourism Board of Mali Losinj
The British Museum’s exhibition is staunchly traditional. It didn’t need bells and whistles, but some modern responses wouldn’t have gone amiss.
Two up front for safety?
Jason Calston/Airbus
The aims of safety and security are not always on the same team, sometimes with disastrous results.
Fighting extremism with the English language.
Jonathan Brady/PA Wire
As part of an anti-extremism strategy, the home secretary says funds for translation services will be cut, but more put into English lessons.