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Americans Don’t Want US to Intervene in Syria: Poll
Only 1 in 10 Americans think the U.S. should intervene in Syria’s civil war, according to a poll published Wednesday. If chemical weapons were used by Syrian government-backed forces on rebels,...
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Congress Hears Dramatic Testimony of Benghazi Attack
A U.S. official on Wednesday dramatically described the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi in the first public testimony of the now politically charged event. Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of...
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Plants Can Hear Each Other, Research Suggests
It is already known that plants can communicate through chemicals, but new research shows that they can still communicate when all routes are blocked except sound. Researchers believe they may be...
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EU Raids Oil Companies in Price Reporting Probe
The European Commission has raided oil companies in an investigation into the setting of oil prices. Shell, BP, and Statoil confirmed that they were co-operating with an investigation which follows...
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Introducing the ‘Strawscraper’
Architects are hoping to turn one of Stockholm’s tallest buildings into the world’s first ‘strawscaper’. The building would be powered completely by plastic ‘hairs’ covering the building from top to...
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London Attack: Account of Extraordinary Courage
The man butchered to death on the streets of London on Wednesday was in the military, it has emerged, together with accounts of the extraordinary courage of a woman who tried to talk down the...
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3-D-Printed Implant Saves Baby’s Life
A baby’s life has been saved by innovative U.S. doctors who used 3-D printing to create a vital splint to keep him breathing. The doctors described their ground-breaking procedure in a report in the...
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Police Use Water Cannon and Tear Gas on Demonstrators on Fifth Night of Protests
Turkey’s deputy prime minister apologized for police violence against demonstrators, but failed to quell the ongoing anti-government protests, as clashes with police continued for a fifth night....
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Patent Ruling Bans Sales of Older iPhones in US
Some iPhones and iPads could be banned from sale in the United States, unless President Obama vetoes a surprise ruling by a U.S. trade agency. The International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled on Tuesday...
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NSA Collecting All Call Information From Verizon: Report
The National Security Agency is apparently currently collecting all telephone records from the country’s second largest phone company through a top-secret court order. The Guardian newspaper claims to...
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Guinness Records Oldest Person Dies Aged 116
The Japanese man officially recognized as the world’s longest living person has died at the age of 116. Jiroemon Kimura was born April 19, 1897. Japanese officials said he died in a local hospital in...
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Unprecedented Drop in British Wages, Says Report
Despite the recession, Britain’s workers have clung to their jobs, with employment levels holding their own against the economic tide. But a new report shows that to keep those jobs, pay has been...
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Google Disrupts Iran Hacking Ahead of Election
Google has picked up a significant spike in hacking attempts in Iran, running up to the presidential election on 14 June. “For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based...
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Death Toll in Syria Tops 93,000, Says UN
The death toll in Syria has topped 93,000 since the start of the conflict, according to the U.N. The latest U.N. analysis of the impact of the conflict shows that since July, an average of over 5,000...
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Literacy Trumps Wealth in Developing Countries: Study
Education, not wealth, may be the key factor in improving health in developing countries, according to a new study. Policies in developing countries have long been founded on the belief that average...
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Looking for Democracy’s Algorithm
His love of solving logic puzzles was to take him on a path that would make him a billionaire. But from an early age all Karel Janecek knew was that he would be a mathematician. Now a financial maths...
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Attacks in London’s Chinatown Raise Concerns of Hate Campaign
A series of attacks on protesters in London’s Chinatown has left victims concerned they are facing a campaign of hate and harassment imported from mainland China. The latest attack on Saturday,...
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The man who attacked human rights protesters in London’s Chinatown has been ordered to serve a two-year community order and to pay compensation for the assault. The attack on Falun Gong practitioners...
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UK Agencies ‘Failing’ Over Peer to Peer Child Abuse
Services across the country are failing to protect children from sexual exploitation by other children in gangs, according to the findings of a two-year investigation. The investigation by the...
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Scottish Independence Could Forge New English Identity
BIRMINGHAM, England—Suddenly, it was real. The future of the United Kingdom was in doubt. Ten days from the Scottish independence vote an unexpected poll surge showed the race was neck and neck. As...
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Excesses of Global Super-Rich Elbowing Out London’s Aristocracy
LONDON—Where rattling horse-drawn carriages once ferried dukes and earls home on summer nights, now squealing golden Ferraris catapult their flashy owners past crowds of tourists wielding camera...
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The Impact of Technology’s Invisible Hand
The telltale sign that we are in a new age of automation isn’t in the latest food ordering apps, driverless taxis, or noodle-cooking robots. It’s in stagnant wages. “We are not going to wake up...
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Brexit: Out of the Political Frying Pan, Into the Constitutional Fire
The referendum vote may have been a simple yes or no, but Brexit is getting ever more complicated, dragging the United Kingdom into its biggest constitutional challenge in centuries and pitting...
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Brexit Trade Deals Could Change the British Landscape
BIRMINGHAM, England—Brexit could reshape Britain’s iconic patchwork landscape, wiping out rural communities, if agriculture is used as a carelessly played bargaining chip in new trade deals, warn...
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Fate of EU Migrants in UK Rests on Final Step to Brexit
BIRMINGHAM, England—The fate of 2.9 million European Union nationals who migrated to the United Kingdom now rests on a final legislative skirmish that will see Britain leave the EU. As Britain lurches...
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Neuromarketing in the Age of iPhones
Marketers are hoping to capitalize on biometric data that can reveal feelings we may not even know we have—or would rather not share. The field of neuromarketing could be on the verge of a breakthrough...
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Brexit Opens Lobbying Gold Rush
BIRMINGHAM, England—Contending with the forces of globalization could be tricky for Britain as it leaves the European Union and begins to engage with a world of business and politics long held at bay...
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Stonehenge Plagued by Gridlock, but Britain Has a $2.4 B Solution
BIRMINGHAM, England—The word “Stonehenge” might hum with prehistoric mystery and magic—but for locals it is a byword for gridlock. A two-lane highway narrows to one lane as it ploughs through the World...
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Brexit: Britain Starts Long Walk Into Unknown
BIRMINGHAM, England—Britain finally has the all clear to hand its official notice to the European Union, but Brexit isn’t done and dusted by a long shot. After her government faced two legal battles...
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UK Hospital’s Data Deal With Google’s Deepmind a ‘Cautionary Tale’
Google bought artificial intelligence company DeepMind in 2014. BIRMINGHAM, England—A deal that secretly shared 1.6 million people’s health data with Google’s DeepMind has been criticized over fears...
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London Terror Attack Gives Glimpse of Ongoing Terror Threat to UK
BIRMINGHAM, England—Fifty injured and four dead, including an unarmed policeman at the gates of Parliament—all at the hands of a 52-year-old man with a violent criminal past who was born in England and...
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British Supreme Court Rules No Term-Time Holidays
Tens of thousands of parents in England will again face fines for taking their children out of school to go on holiday, after a Supreme Court ruling on April 6. The ruling reversed a win at a lower...
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Somewheres Versus Anywheres
BIRMINGHAM, England—A clash between two hidden groups with different identities and values is driving the wave of so-called populism in much of the West, according to new book published in March....
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UK Snap Election in 6 Weeks, Announces Prime Minister
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has announced a snap general election to take place in six weeks’ time. The move stunned pundits as it reversed May’s repeated promises to wait until 2020. May said the...
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Dublin Court Case Key to Question of Brexit Reversal
BIRMINGHAM, England—A group of British politicians want to know whether Britain can legally pull out of Brexit—but bizarrely, they are having to sue the Irish government to get the answer. On April 24,...
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ISIS Strategy Seeks to Create Wedges in Europe
BIRMINGHAM, England—Self-starter ISIS strategies could be evolving to be customized country by country in Europe, targeting the hated “gray zone” where Muslims live in secular democracies. “ISIS seem...
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UK ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Free to Pose as Children Online, Court Rules
BIRMINGHAM, England—Self-styled “pedophile hunters” in the United Kingdom can snare criminals by posing as children online, according to a recent landmark court ruling. Pedophile stings have increased...
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Acid Attacks on the Rise in London
BIRMINGHAM, England—Eighteen people were burned and two blinded in one eye in a recent acid attack in a London club, with the former boyfriend of a reality TV star arrested and charged. The...
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair Jumps Back Into the Fray
BIRMINGHAM, England—Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is controversially wading back into frontline British politics, 20 years after he claimed power for the Labour Party. Blair believes Labour has...
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Young Brits Swap Pints for Lattes
BIRMINGHAM, England—The British synonym for “pub” tells it all: The “local” was traditionally the community hub, where pints of beer and cider loosened the stiff upper lip. But drunken revelry is no...
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Britain’s Fox Law Jumps Into Election Campaign
BIRMINGHAM, England—Fox hunting has been a British rural tradition for five centuries—but for the last 12 years, the huntsman’s adversary hasn’t been a furry fox, but a fuzzy law. Fox hunting is a hot...
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UK on Highest Threat Level as Troops Deployed
BIRMINGHAM, England—The United Kingdom is on the highest possible terror threat level for the first time in a decade, with troops deployed after 22 people were killed in a terrorist attack in...
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UK Election Unexpectedly Close
BIRMINGHAM, England—When the U.K. general election was announced a month ago, it looked like a historical shoo-in for the incumbent Conservative Party. But an unexpected surge in Labour support has...
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London Attack a Wake-Up Call for UK Security Services
BIRMINGHAM, England—Khuram Butt had already demonstrated his extremist views for millions to see, over a year before he ran down pedestrians in London and butchered Saturday-night diners while chanting...
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UK Likely to Backtrack on ‘Hard Brexit’ Following Election Gamble
BIRMINGHAM, England—Brexit could be watered down, or get very messy, following the shock election result that stripped Britain’s ruling Conservative Party of their parliamentary majority. Prime...
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NHS: The Struggle to Rescue the Sacred Cow of British Politics
News Analysis BIRMINGHAM, England—Three letters still reign supreme over British politics: NHS. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) took pride of place at the 2012 London Olympics, and is often...
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Brawl in Venezuela Parliament Over Disputed Election
A brawl broke out in Venezuela’s parliament on April 30 after MPs were banned from speaking until they recognised the new President. A video shows several people involved in a rolling punch-up that...
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World’s Smallest Movie: Animating Atoms
Scientists released the world’s smallest movie on May 1, a stop-frame animation that uses atoms in place of plasticine models, CGI or drawings. Researchers at IBM used a Nobel-Prize winning microscope...
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Which New English Word Has Linguists Excited?
A steady stream of parent-mystifying slang is constantly transitioning to everyday dictionary-endorsed language without registering a blip on the linguistic monitors. But a new word (or rather an old...
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The British Cuppa: Down, But Not Out
BIRMINGHAM, England—The popularity of British traditional afternoon tea, with cakes, scones, and tea served in fine china, has grown in recent years among tourists and Brits alike. But it may not be...
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