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Apple’s closed system may be its undoing in the smart home market.
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The European Investment Bank’s funding of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline will harm the climate and makes little financial sense.
Omg I can’t even.
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Schools minister Nick Gibb seems to think young people should face more frequent testing, to prepare for GCSEs. His comments fly in the face of 20 years’ research.
Protesting for political freedom outside the Supreme Court in Malé.
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The Maldives’ increasingly polarised religious politics are coming apart.
Derek Harper
Previous government aid packages for local papers have instead helped Fleet Street’s ‘big beasts’.
A lot of Vote Leave strongholds will be worst affected by Brexit.
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Why the areas that voted Leave are likely to be hardest hit by Brexit.
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Flirting with danger with each trick, freeskiers and snowboarders must learn to manage the emotions of such a daredevil sport.
Alexander Tretyakov, one of the Russian athletes whose lifetime ban was overturned in January.
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The politics of Russia’s Olympic doping ban.
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More than 90% of teens are reportedly experiencing some form of relationship abuse.
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The new Black Panther film has a lot in common with medieval romance tales.
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LSD is far safer than alcohol or tobacco, so why don’t drug laws reflect it?
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New, extreme levels of censorship in Turkey could lead to waves of digital activism by tech-savvy generations.
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Kim Jong-un’s favourite act won hearts and minds when they performed on day one of the Winter Olympics.
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The sugar tax relies on creating a price difference between high- and low-sugar drinks, but this could be cancelled out by bundled offers, such as fixed-price meal deals.
Korea’s fielding of a unified Olympic team is an intriguing narrative of sport, international diplomacy and gender equality.
Tiktaalik: bridging the gap between land and sea.
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Little skates that ‘walk’ across the ocean floor show how fish brains evolved to pave the way for working legs.
Stop Fucking The Planet: Debbie Harry telling it how it is.
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As Coco Chanel said: ‘You can be gorgeous at 30, charming at 40, and irresistible for the rest of your life.’
Suspicious mind.
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Jealousy works in the same old ways – even in the age of online infidelity.
The arrest of Flora Drummond, and Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in 1908.
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Justified or not, some of the suffragettes’ actions were still criminal. And many would consider a conviction a badge of honour.
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The events of summer 2011 proved that Israel incubates the same sort of socio-economic discontent that upended the wider Middle East.
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Johnson and Mogg are taking over? They should probably get on with it then.
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Promises to consult with indigenous groups are routinely ignored as Peru eyes up the natural resources found in its rainforests.
The ‘girl from Enghelab Street’, recorded holding her hijab aloft in protest in December 2017.
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Protests against mandatory hijabs have a clear goal, and if successful, would be a victory for Iranian civil society.
Former Scottish Police Authority chair Andrew Flanagan with Phil Gormley who has resigned as Scotland’s chief constable.
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The lamentable Police Scotland saga continues as its second chief constable resigns and an undercover policing report denies any wrong doing.
Green and healthy,
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Ventilation and natural light are two simple measures which can make buildings better for people to live and work in.