What’s going on in there?
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The humiliation of asking for a Brexit extension could be a price worth paying to get an election.
Now part of history.
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Thomas Cook may be history – but that history is about to be lost.
China: 70 years later.
How Hwee Young/EPA
What role does Marxist theory about the state play in modern China?
Researchers have evidence of another method that bacteria use to avoid antibiotics.
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This breakthrough could be key in fighting antibiotic resistance.
Preparations for China’s 70th anniversary parade.
Wang Zhao/EPA
What 70 years of mass military parades reveal about the Chinese Communist Party’s rule.
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Everyone will benefit from wider HPV vaccinations.
The Prime Minister’s inflammatory language in Parliament provoked outrage.
PA
Use of the words ‘traitor’, ‘surrender’ and ‘betrayal’ have increased inside parliament but everyone outside needs to watch their language too.
A phytoplankton bloom stretching across the Barents Sea off the coast of mainland Europe’s most northern point.
European Space Agency
Populations of plankton are in decline. If we push this critical foundation of the marine food chain to extinction, we could cripple ecosystems for millions of years.
The first BBC television transmissions, September 1929.
Science Museum
The first public television broadcast took place on September 30, 1929. The world would never be the same again.
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There’s no evidence that private schools produce better results than state schools for equivalent pupils.
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Global forces affect corruption, too.
Crew at the International Space Station capture Typhoon Noru.
NASA
Our own planet shows that environmental modification is possible on a planetary scale in quite a short span of time.
From food to friend.
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The world is coming round to meat alternatives, but we need to speed the process up for the sake of the environment.
Ukraine Presidential Press Service/EPA
How Ukraine has reacted to controversy over a phone call between its President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Donald Trump.
Prismatic Jane Eyre/University of Oxford
What was a thoroughly English book has become a multilingual, ever-changing global text continually putting down roots in different cultures.
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Traditional banks don’t understand the challenge they face from fintech disruptors and their competitive advantage is on the wane.
Trey Hardee at the 2011 IAAF World Championships.
Kerim Okten/EPA
Coaches have long thought hurdlers and sprinters start their races differently – our research suggests they need to adjust their thinking.
Dome at Calar Alto Observatory.
Pedro Amado/Marco Azzaro - IAA/CSIC
The discovery of a huge planet orbiting a small star challenges our understanding of planet formation.
Clinical trials are important, but can’t get us to medicine prescribing that is 100% effective.
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Clinical trials are used to establish that medicines work. But these don’t take into account the genetic differences between us that can mean very different outcomes for different patients.
Attacks on the judiciary undermine liberal democracy.
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Sadly, politicians have been trying to turn the public against judges for a very long time.
Jacques Chirac has died, aged 86.
PA
The most popular president of the Fifth Republic actually achieved alarmingly little during his tenure.
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A combination of flawed science and over-optimism meant experts misinterpreted the data that helped calculate estimates of cod stocks back in 2017.
Low lying regions could be devastated by sea level rise this century.
Zita Sebesvari/UNU-EHS
If nothing is done now, seas could rise a metre by 2100, and four metres by 2300.
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Can developing countries get rich from data?
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Rising sea levels, unstable weather, and a much smaller carbon budget.