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Living as a woman in North Korea can be psychologically and physically gruelling.
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If you want to remain lean, this study of mouse diets suggests your fat intake should make up just a fifth of your overall calorie intake.
Transport in the palm of your hand.
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The UK pioneered smart cards such as Oyster. But now, experimentation is being stifled as cash-strapped councils struggle to deliver basic services.
El Salvador forges new relationship with China – it isn’t the first nor will it be the last nation to be wooed by Chinese investment.
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In the footsteps of US foriegn policy blunders, China is making friends and influencing people in Latin America.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam, in 1969.
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John Lennon’s Revolution was panned by the radical media as a ‘petty bourgeois cry of fear’ in 1968. Then, in 1987 it was claimed by Nike to be the controversial soundtrack of its most seminal advert.
An unedifying relationship.
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Saudi Arabia gets far more out of being close with the UK than vice versa.
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And here’s what to do once a future sinkhole has been identified.
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Neither country’s fishing fleet has come out of this well.
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Google needs to stop relying on just advertising if it wants to be successful in the next 20 years – but that is proving difficult.
Big decisions.
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What migration figures really tell us about the movement of people.
Dorothy Wordsworth’s ambitious walking practices helped to encourage female mountaineers to follow in her footsteps.
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A lesser known aspect of bogs is their remarkable potential to preserve both environmental and archaeological records.
‘Will I remember this?’
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A new study found that 14% of people report a memory from age one or below. They’re likely fictitious.
Searching for meaning.
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Meaning and purpose aren’t the same, but one does drive the other.
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New research is pinpointing how much genes influence the stability of educational achievement.
Reuters journalist Wa Lone is escorted out of the Insein township court in Yangon.
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From press freedom to ethnic cleansing, Myanmar seems to be slipping backwards faster than ever.
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Most animal groups adopted their shapes quickly but some kept evolving.
Kweku Adoboli was convicted in 2011.
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One person should not bear sole responsibility for a loss of US$2.3 billion at a global financial institution employing 65,000 people.
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We’re now so reliant on Google’s services they are now a part of us, raising some deeply troubling questions.
Policemen wearing masks provided by the American Red Cross in Seattle, 1918.
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For nearly 50 years academic and popular writers ignored the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. A hundred years later, historians can’t get enough of it.
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From Turkey to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women are battling for their rights - but religion is not at fault.
Tenants on benefits are left with few options.
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Administrative errors and negative stereotypes lead landlords to discriminate against people on housing benefit.
A house of one’s own.
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The right to housing is enshrined in law in the Netherlands and South Africa – so what would it look like in the UK?
Information and relationships are increasingly online, which can make it hard to know who to trust.
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As long as there are no hidden agendas, it is surprisingly simple to reach the right decision when faced with contradictory information.
Tally ho!
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The idea that welfare cuts galvanised Vote Leave risks identifying the wrong culprit.