Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst: a family at war with itself.
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Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?
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Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul opened a ‘Sleepcinemahotel’ where audiences let their subconscious minds watch his movies as they fell asleep.
Standing up against Duterte’s media crackdown.
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Rodrigo Duterte’s authoritarianism has progressed from death squads and martial law to cracking down on press freedom.
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Lepidoptera insects are at least 70m years older than we previously knew.
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Prime numbers are a mathematical mystery.
Time’s nearly up: Iranian presidents Mohammad Khatami, Hasan Rouhani, and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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With a hollowed-out agenda and a cynical attitude to corruption, Iran’s reformist forces have squandered their people’s trust.
New bobbies on the beat.
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A new breed of officers hold different views on what it means to be in the police.
Emma Stone, one of the leading names behind Time’s Up.
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A new campaign seeks to support all women affected by sexism, whether famous or not.
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Cold water drowning kills many people every year. But can it also provide curative benefits? We asked an expert.
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The Victorian idea of Christmas pre-dates Dickens. What the writer did was bring an essentially rural celebration into an urban setting.
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We're pouring cold water on old ideas in this episode: from why the population of Easter Island really declined and what makes a good urban legend.
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Parents say they homeschool for a number of reasons including, lifestyle, dissatisfaction or disagreements with local schools, special needs, bullying and religion.
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Prescribing a drug for a condition it hasn’t been tested for may sound reckless, but off-label prescribing has a useful function in medicine.
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Thanks to the way they are portrayed in films and books, the Knights Templar have become identified with narrow-minded nationalism. This is unjust and inaccurate.
Prince Harry is to marry Meghan Markle in May 2018.
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Two tourism experts assess the evidence on whether visitors are drawn to the UK by the monarchy.
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A surprising case in Queensland, Australia is changing the way we think about what can be used an official document after your death.
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The Campaign Against Killer Robots has launched a terrifying film showing why lethal drones need to be banned.
Don’t jump to conclusions: protesters in Kashmir with a mocked-up IS flag.
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Just because a group waves the IS flag or claims to be its friend doesn’t mean a global insurgency is underway.
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Rowe’s was a particularly harrowing case. But it raises important questions about broader attitudes to the virus.
The execution of the eight surviving conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot.
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It wasn’t just ‘mindless’ brutality – but it should remind us that violence too often begets violence.