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    What happens when a financial bubble bursts? illustrates

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    How should we protect our oceans? To mark , send us your ocean-themed photo using . We'll repost our favourite

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    How big data can be used to stop illegal fishing. Free to read:

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    Barbie is not a mere toy, nor product category: she is an icon. The first Barbie doll went on sale 1959

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    “Down With This Sort of Thing” has inspired other self-effacing signs such as “Not Usually a Sign Guy but Geez”

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    A study attempts to estimate the amount of plastic that is being dumped in the ocean. Free to read:

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    Can Chris Kennedy fix Illinois?

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    Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst, famed for her militant ethos, died 1958

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    . draws: When the bubble bursts

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    Tasting menu: Why the Kremlin’s interests and America’s are worlds apart. Listen in:

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    “Welcome home”. To Zia Haider Rahman, two words are the difference between loyalty and radicalisation

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    Live entertainment isn't dead. In fact, it may be growing

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    Sequins and sensitivity: the raunchy lyrics of the Carnival's marchinhas are provoking a backlash

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    Why you aren't discovering emerging artists

  15. 3 hours ago

    Wagner died 1883. “Ring of the Nibelung” is considered the finest piece of musical theatre ever written

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    The Jewish community in Syracuse is gradually gaining not only in numbers but in confidence

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    Ride-hailing apps and home-rental sites are fast becoming mainstays of the corporate travel world

  18. 4 hours ago

    Donald Trump grants China’s fervent wish

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    Podemos retreats to the hard left

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    As Justin Trudeau meets Donald Trump in Washington, a look at why Canada opts for openness

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    North Korea is starting to back up its military bluster

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