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Meet the brawny bug with a concoction so caustic it’ll make a toad vomit.
A drying climate caused a mass extinction among plants, but paved the way for the ancestors of modern reptiles, mammals, and birds.
Ireland was quick to elect a woman member of parliament, but it’s been slow going thereafter.
The Dow Jones is on a rollercoaster. But don’t panic.
It’s been 100 years since women over 30 won the right to vote in Britain. But that didn’t solve gender injustice – and young people today need feminism more than ever.
The British government plans to double its annual charge for migrants to use the NHS.
We may often criticise our lack of leaders. But leadership is not easy to define – even by leaders themselves.
A top class female footballer and tragic young soldier who was shot for ‘desertion’ despite fighting in some of WW1’s bloodiest battle fields are two hidden stories of The Great War.
Dubbed the ‘female ghetto’, there’s a reason why women are significantly over-represented in call centres.
Sarcasm can alienate and discriminate.
The Erdoğan regime’s move into northern Syria is being justified in the name of European security.
Teachers have a legal duty to promote British values, but what exactly are they?
Yes, a lot of Turkish citizens are looking for a chance to start new lives abroad – but not all of them are doing it for the same reasons.
Cyberattacks are in the top five global risks, behind extreme weather events and natural disasters. But global cooperation remains deeply problematic.
More than 100 historic expeditionary and travel films have been digitised recently by the Royal Geographical Society and the British Film Institute.
Scientists may have discovered why cancer incidence rises with age, and it’s got more to do with the immune system than people thought.
Not everyone won the vote in 1918, and not everyone is living their best life now.
The leaked government Brexit report reinforces the academic consensus that the harder the Brexit, the worse it will be for the UK economy.
Saudi Arabia is the most recent country to grant women the vote. Pakistan has some serious work to do. And Vatican City really needs to get with the programme.
Bots, brand jackers, big shots, as well as traditional businesses all bossed the Super Bowl social media space.
Can South America’s biggest democracy run properly with a broken, corrupt political class seemingly unable to reform?
The women’s suffrage campaign shows the advantages of petitioning, even when demands are rejected.
Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul opened a ‘Sleepcinemahotel’ where audiences let their subconscious minds watch his movies as they fell asleep.