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People who listen to personal music players for only five hours a week at a high volume may be doing permanent damage to their hearing.
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The spectre of the Winter of Discontent threatened to return to haunt Labour last night after funeral directors revealed that the burial of 'hundreds' of bodies is being delayed for...
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We asked for your favourite words and were overwhelmed with nominations. Here we list 50 of the best.
1. To throw something (someone) out of a window is to defenestrate. I love this word...
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Yet more bad news looms out of Black October; before the month has even limped to its end there is now suggestions that two million people could be on the dole by Christmas. The fall out from the...
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A British-born tycoon made history today as he became the first offspring of a NASA astronaut to go into space.
Richard Garriott, 47, will dock tomorrow at the International Space Station, 225...
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At least 900 Christian families have fled Mosul in the past week, terrified by a series of killings and threats by Muslim extremists ordering them to convert to Islam or face possible death,...
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In the beginning, there was a boy, a girl and an apple.
He was a teenager in a death camp in Nazi-controlled Germany. She was a bit younger, living free in the village, her family posing as...
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Dozens of renowned British writers came out against new anti-terrorism legislation Sunday, publishing a collection of satire, essays, fiction and poetry to protest a proposal allowing police to...
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Much like Pavlov conditioned his dog to salivate in anticipation of food when a bell rang, insects can be trained to perform certain behaviors when enticed with different smells. Researchers at...
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A contemporary housing estate for a "post-Thatcherite Britain" has won the 2008 Stirling Prize for architecture.
Accordia, in Cambridge, was one of six developments shortlisted for...
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