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After the most recent elections, Catalonia’s secessionist coalition is free to form a government. But their president is still exiled in Belgium.
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Across the world, authoritarian regimes are taking oil from its rightful owners – the people.
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It looks like the economists who warned of the potential damage to UK businesses due to Brexit were correct.
Baroness Tessa Jowell speaking in the House of Lords.
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There are several things we can do to speed up the development of new drugs, without putting patients at risk.
Edmund during the Australian Open 2018 semi-final.
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Kyle Edmund may be out of the Australian Open, but an impressive forehand and sharp focus won’t stop the tennis player.
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The government must try harder if it wants to ensure recruitment and retention in the profession.
El Cocuy National Park.
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One of Colombia’s most beautiful areas, El Cocuy National Natural Park was for years too dangerous to visit. No more.
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A new study raises concerns about raw meat based dog food, but not for the reasons you think.
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Current cholesterol tests in the UK are outdated and are putting lives at risk.
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Both female beauty icons posted ‘problematic’ tweets about the Israel-Palestine conflict in 2014. But they weren’t received the same way.
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A Pakistani humanist has been denied asylum in Britain because he couldn’t identify Plato or Aristole. The state is illiterate when it comes to atheism.
The inscription on the gate to the Auschwitz concentration camp (Poland): ‘Work makes you free’.
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More than 70-years after World War II, is Auschwitz still relevant to children today?
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The Fall’s frontman was the ultimate pop outsider who never lost his working-class Manchester roots.
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All the president’s men … where a men-only club dinner went wrong and what lessons there are for charity fundraising.
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The harassment at the Presidents Club Charity Dinner was horrible. Here are three lessons from moral philosophy on how to avoid it happening again.
Artists impression of the purification tower.
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China has built a skyscraper-sized purification tower. But it will only clean perhaps 0.01% of the air in the ‘atmospheric box’ sat over a city.
An inaccurate harbinger of doom.
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As it moves to two minutes to midnight, the Doomsday Clock must be stopped.
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YouTube celebrity Chrissy Chambers has won damages in a landmark revenge porn case. But not all victims of such abuse will have her means.
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A new national security communications unit has echoes of the past, when the government tried to weaponise information, with mixed results.
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Research can be spun, within hours, into a story of past failure. In fact, it’s a case of continuous improvement.
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Outside observers are keen to declare the Syrian conflict almost over. It is anything but.
Padman starring Akshay Kumar.
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A new Bollywood movie based on the story of an Indian entrepreneur who created affordable sanitary pads is helping to counter myths and taboos around menstruation.
Trump has promised to put ‘America first’ to make it great again.
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The movement against globalisation has shifted from developing to developed countries.
Tide pods: neither delicious, nor nutritious.
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Eating laundry detergent capsules online is not the fault of the younger generation. In modern society, attention is power.
God’s scientific lesson for Job.
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Forcing people to separate science and religion can lead to damaging denials of science.