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TV audiences cheered on the iguanas’ escape, but won’t somebody think of the poor snakes?
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While the rest of the world reeled in shock, the Russian leader was very quick to congratulate the new president-elect.
Quite the surprise!
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Brian Ward , Northumbria University, Newcastle ; David Baker , Coventry University ; Gina Yannitell Reinhardt , University of Essex ; Mark McLay , Glasgow Caledonian University ; Michael Patrick Cullinane , Northumbria University, Newcastle ; Paula Keaveney , Edge Hill University , and Toby James , University of East Anglia
From coast to coast, the 2016 election has torn up the usual order.
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Not every student will publish work or win prizes and very few will be able to earn a living putting pen to paper, but the teaching of creative writing is about more than that.
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The battles seen in a recent viral video and the BBC’s Planet Earth II documentary are just a glimpse of the contests that take place throughout the animal kingdom.
Sharia councils deal mainly with issues over Islamic divorce.
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A campaign to provide information for Muslim couples about English civil marriages could mean Sharia councils fade away.
Best spot in the house.
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You just need to apply some science.
Sorry, but you are…?
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We’re working on a ‘cure’ for congenital prosopagnosia.
Jubilant: President-elect Trump.
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It wasn’t supposed to happen, but Trump’s mastery of the dark arts was just too great.
Coming your way.
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After seeing the worst of American democracy, the outside world will have to adjust to a hugely unpredictable president.
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We know that Trump behaves appallingly badly and appeals to the left-behind. But we still do not know much about him.
Being generous may be more important than you think.
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‘Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen’ will not make you popular, according to new research.
A yellow-shouldered grosbeak tucks into a katydid (bush cricket) lunch high in the rainforest canopy.
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Bird diversity may be the secret to forest resilience.
All one volcano.
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The nine metre-high waves that smashed into Minoan civilisation on Crete weren’t caused by the volcano collapsing.
Bring in your business, but not your people.
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Theresa May is looking to India for trade and investment, but it’s undermined by her anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Worth the risk?
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Why research into male contraception keeps hitting the buffers.
Warm and cosy and screwing up the atmosphere.
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Priority number one for the world’s leading nations in Marrakech ought to be taking carbon out of heat.
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The Politically Incorrect forum is bringing its racist vitriol to a website near you.
Cyrus Mistry pictured leaves after a meeting in Mumbai, Oct 26.
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Theresa May was supposed to meet with bosses of the Indian conglomerate, but an age-old issue with the family firm has got in the way.
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Mixed neighbourhoods won’t necessarily make people friendlier.
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How to spot a bully at work. It’s not as easy as you might think.
A baby girl with microcephaly, in Lagoa do Carro, Pernambuco, Brazil.
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A moving dispatch from the frontline in the fight against Zika.
In New York the sea will rise by up to two metres.
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At 2°C of warming and beyond, many megacities will have to cope with increased flood-risk.
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The government is set to increase its use of punitive security measures against individuals it can’t bring to court.
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It’s easy to imagine the sadness that comes with a loved one’s disappearance, but there’s anger too – and admin.