A messenger dog at Etaples, 28 August 1918.
Imperial War Museum
Either medals or destruction appears to await canine companions from the battlefield.
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Neither constitution protections nor protests have prevented the Mapuche and their allies from suffering at the hands of the Argentine state.
The Irish border question: central to Brexit negotiatons.
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Survey shows Remain voters more opposed to a hard border than Leave voters.
Queen Elizabeth II with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia during his state visit in 2007.
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It looks as if a state visit from the US president is on the cards. But the Queen is a veteran at hosting unwanted guests.
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The US and Canada began fortifying flour with folic acid in the late 90s. More than 70 countries followed suit, but not the UK.
Barack Obama meets the cast of Hamilton.
Pete Souza, chief official White House photographer
The award-winning US musical made headlines when a cast member delivered a political message to the US vice-president from the stage.
Police officers mark and register bundles of seized python skins in Linyi, Shandong province, China.
Reuters
This multi-billion pound industry increasingly involves organised crime groups, who see wildlife as a low risk route to profit.
Srdjan Suki/EPA
Responses to the recent discovery of a Nazi swastika raise some awkward questions.
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New findings reveal only 1.5% of all offers from Oxford and Cambridge went to black British A-level students.
We want your data.
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The rate at which valuable identity information is flying out of the control of firms is alarming – more than 3,500 records per minute.
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Only the national government can solve the housing crisis – but local authorities can make a big difference in their communities.
The continent is home to 12 million penguins…and not much else.
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The Antarctic Treaty was signed 58 years ago today, protecting the continent for peace and science.
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It may be just as well the UK government scrapped its previous carbon capture competition.
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The world’s loudest hater of ‘fake news’ is also a brazen peddler of insidious misinformation.
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And will the aviation sector implement vital lessons learned from Icelandic disruption in 2010?
Britain First leader Paul Golding and deputy leader Jayda Fransen.
PA/Nick Ansell
The US president has lent legitimacy to a small group of right-wing extremists by sharing its content.
NASA/JPL
A new trajectory means the mission to uncover core facts about the asteroid belt will happen sooner than planned.
Blair’s government introduced changes to Britain’s imigration system.
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Jeremy Corbyn should heed lessons from his Labour predecessors on immigration policy.
The Lion of London (Daniel Crute) crushes an apple in his biceps at the Dynamic Tensions Physical Culture Show.
David Tett Photography
Performing for the crowd, acting up and showing off – how physical culture’s origins as theatre have fed into today’s toxic masculinity, and how they can help it change.
Prince Harry is to marry Meghan Markle in May 2018.
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Two tourism experts assess the evidence on whether visitors are drawn to the UK by the monarchy.
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A look behind the statistics that link government spending cuts with increases in death.
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We’ve only travelled into space in the last century, but humanity’s desire to reach the moon is far from recent.
EPA/Wael Hamzeh
Lebanon is on shaky enough ground without a Saudi–Iranian proxy war to think about.
Poor food safety at home could lead to serious consequences for those with suppressed immune systems.
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Already suffering debilitating side effects, chemotherapy patients could be made seriously ill by the food they eat.
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A novelist who compared a man’s genitals to a billiard rack has won this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award. But not all entries were that silly.