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Why do people choose to drop the spending and devote their time to another way of living?
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Serving hot, fresh, nutritious food in hospitals should be considered part of the clinical care.
Northamptonshire Steelbacks’ Alex Wakley bats during the final of the T20 Blast in 2016.
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Is the 20-over format a friend or foe for English cricket?
Late Viking Age Swedish rune-stone commemorating a man called Víkingr.
Swedish National Heritage Board, Photo Bengt A. Lundberg
What the Old Norse for Viking can tell us about the Scandinavian explorers.
Sign outside the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin.
William Murphy
The ‘rules of grammar’ aren’t set in stone, so correcting other people is pointless and demeaning.
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In a highly individualistic world where work prevents us from spending time with friends and family, a universal basic income could change society.
Feline revolution.
Ursula Dorada/Angela Sprecher/MSCSI
Superheroes are either men, or women drawn by men. Couldn’t there be another way of creating a 21st century superheroine?
A bridge too far?
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China’s One Belt, One Road initiative is holding international summit in Beijing, but no Western leaders have said they are coming yet.
Muscat in Oman is particularly vulnerable.
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A new study suggests the enigmatic Makran region could see a magnitude 9 earthquake.
Coffee time.
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Waitrose has withdrawn its free coffee offer to loyalty cardholders – but on what grounds?
Daniel Doyle
The UK has flared tensions with Spain over what happens to the territory after Brexit. But this war of words has been going on for centuries.
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Taxing meat may be unpopular, but an urgent problem calls for an urgent solution.
EPA/ANDY RAIN
Changes to the benefits system delve into the pockets of the poor and will lead to more families and disabled people needing to use food banks.
How to keep both.
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Different EU countries have different rules about who can have dual nationality.
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Chocolate is so much more than ‘junk food’ and should be respected as part of a healthy diet.
Officials check an electronic voting machine.
EPA/Raminder Pal Singh
Election results almost always come with conspiracy theories attached, but India’s latest round of recriminations goes deeper than usual.
EPA/Michael Reichel
Once again, Nigel Farage and his conservative allies are rushing to the defence of ‘British values’. Needlessly, as it turns out.
Smell, sight, sounds – they all change how you perceive food.
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Science shows us that food tastes different depending on the circumstances in which you eat it.
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The health of our pensions can ebb and flow with mortality rates, and the latest data has delivered a shock.
At the match-making corner in Shanghai, education and hukou status are often explicitly stated on adverts.
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The Chinese system of hukou makes ‘inter-marriage’ of people from urban and rural areas difficult.
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Toxic industrial processes put a distance between work, home and leisure. Now, in the post-industrial era, these functions are being reunited.
There are long-held myths about domestic abuse.
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If even top judges can get it wrong when it comes to domestic abuse then perhaps it’s time we all tried to better understand the nature of coercive and controlling behaviour.
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The sun is more powerful today than when we last had similar levels of carbon in the atmosphere.
Artist’s impression of waterfalls pouring over the original land bridge connecting England with France.
CREDIT: Imperial College London/Chase Stone
Almost half a million years ago a huge flood started breaking the apart the land bridge that joined England and France.
Receiving treatment.
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The use of chemical weapons will put even more pressure on fragile peace talks.