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Jan 2 2009
Growth rates among corals on the Great Barrier Reef have slumped to their slowest in at least four centuries and growth is expected to cease within 26 years.The process of calcification, which gives the reefs their structure and strength, has slowed by...
Dec 30 2008
The 28-year-old England star and two other men will appear in court next month over an alleged brawl in Southport, Merseyside, in the early hours of Monday morning, which stemmed from an argument over music.Marcus McGee, a 34-year-old father-of-two,...
Dec 18 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Tuesday that the European Union could turn into an industrial wasteland without government help for manufacturers hit hard by the global financial crisis.In a debate at the European Parliament wrapping up...
Oct 16 2008
Displays of altruism or selflessness towards others can be sexually attractive in a mate. This is one of the findings of a study carried out by biologists and a psychologist at The University of Nottingham.
Oct 16 2008
This toy hedgehog, found in a child’s grave at Stonehenge, is proof of what we have always known - children have always loved to play.The chalk figurine was probably a favourite possession of the three year old, and placed next to the child when...
Oct 11 2008
Tobacco smuggling causes around 4,000 premature deaths a year—four times the number of deaths caused by the use of all smuggled illegal drugs put together—but the UK government is not doing enough to tackle the problem, claim experts on the British...
Oct 9 2008
Women who have had just one miscarriage are more likely to suffer complications in future pregnancies, research shows.
Oct 8 2008
These days, the naked calendar has become a fundraising staple on par with the bake sale or the bikini car wash. But a group of ambulance workers in the U.K. made waves when their nude charity calendar was banned from ambulance stations across the...
Oct 5 2008
Two days after creating ripples by inducting Blairites into his cabinet, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday appointed a loyalist and an Indian-origin ex-banker Shriti Vadera as minister.
Oct 5 2008
‘Idon’t wear the niqab because I don’t think it’s necessary,” says the woman behind the counter in the Islamic dress shop in east London. “We do sell quite a few of them, though.” She shows me how to wear the...