Under pressure: Theresa May hosts a meeting with Commonwealth officials to apologise for treatment of some Commonwealth citizens by the Home Office.
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It’s time to stop the brutality of the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ for migrants.
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The international partnership offers new trade opportunities for the UK but some of its members also stand to lose out as a result of leaving the EU.
A bus passes by Cambridge Analytica’s headquarters in London.
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My expert evidence to parliament shows how Cambridge Analytica and SCL secretly pushed their supposed notoriety in the dark arts in brazen ways.
What’s cooking?
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Tracking contamination routes showed where the trouble can start.
President Erdoğan of Turkey is happy to jaw-jaw, but will war-war where necessary.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seeks nothing short of leading the Muslim world, building on Turkey’s imperial Ottoman past.
Rett syndrome affects one in 10,000 girls.
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New evidence that old beliefs about people with conditions that prevent them from speaking or moving are not always right.
Sara Danius announcing her resignation as permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, April 12.
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Allegations of sexual harassment have shaken the organisation that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Ants have an incredible instinct to help their comrades.
It’s not always about demons.
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The Vatican has announced a training course to meet growing demand for exorcists.
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Violence in UK schools is at record levels, but expelling pupils isn’t always the answer.
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Guns for hire are back in business – and they’re making war even more dangerous.
Silent night.
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Weather and online shopping aren’t the main culprits behind the high street’s decline.
A B-52 releasing a ‘bomb train’ over targets in Vietnam in 1967.
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The bombing in Syria is based on a flawed strategy – just as Operation Rolling Thunder was during the Vietnam War. But will world leaders learn the lessons of history?
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As cities get smarter, we need to examine carefully who gets our data and what it is used for.
Disgruntled.
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Cutting pension scheme costs can make staff angry and belligerent.
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Scrapping nurses’ bursaries was met with almost universal condemnation. But could it be a good thing?
Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte at a hospital in Normandy, ahead of the launch of a new autism strategy.
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France has launched a new autism plan – but why does the country lag behind in its provisions for the condition?
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Research into cognitive processes found people who adapted their thinking to changing situations were more likely
George Cruikshank’s impression of Dickens’ dystopia.
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Charles Dickens imagined a robot theme park way back in 1838.
Protesters in Rio de Janeiro walk with a sign reading ‘Marielle lives’.
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Black lives in Brazil are devalued and subject to violence on a horrific scale.
Great tit takes off.
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City living isn’t for everyone, but certain birds can prosper in the environment.
Things could go from bad to worse.
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The UK’s food regulator, the FSA, is planning a major reorganisation. The timing couldn’t be worse.
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Microscopically engineering surfaces could stop water leaving behind rings of residue as it dries.
Tony Blair visiting a children’s centre in Southampton in 2003.
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Sure Start centres are shutting or becoming ‘hubs’, but will they still provide the services which local families value and need?
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How our life experiences change the way we perceive colours.