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News
News RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- 'You are in for a disappointment,' Angela Merkel tells Eurosceptic Tories hoping for fundamental EU reform in speech to Parliament
- Texan family claim to have 'killed a mythical chupacabra'
- Reverend Dr Keith Hebden to fast for 40 days and nights in solidarity with hungry Britons using foodbanks
- Atos to work on NHS care data project despite ongoing 'mess' over disability benefit assessments
Images
- Balinese Usaba Dalem - annual ritual of roast pig sacrifice
- The Lucerne Carnival in Switzerland
- Inside the lavish residency of fugitive president Victor Yanukovych
- Forgotten art - Chinese Opera struggles to compete with modern day entertainments
- The Carnival of Venice
- Celebrities appear on banana stickers in a campaign to make bananas fair
- Amazing archaeological discoveries
- Step into the past: Ghostly hybrid images that reveal the sights of London then and now
Science
- Ministers take next step towards approving IVF procedures that would allow three-parent babies
- The search for 'Earth 2.0' continues apace as Nasa announces the discovery of four new 'Goldilocks' planets, taking the known total to nine
- Fully formed teeth removed from the brain of a baby suffering from a rare tumour
- Planetary 'bonanza': Nasa's Kepler telescope discovers 715 new exoplanets
- Children of older dads face more health problems
- Locked in the 'Doomsday Vault': Samples of more than 20,000 crops from 100 nations added to 800,000 existing stock at seed bank that will protect the world’s biodiversity in the event of a disaster
- Would you take the 'death test'? Simple blood test predicts chances of dying within five years
- Sausages made with baby poo are completely normal and super healthy, say scientists
- Dyslexia a 'meaningless label' claim experts in controversial new book
Obituaries
- Lady Llewellyn: Cipher officer who established and led a team crucial to Winston Churchill's wartime centre of operations
- Paco de Lucia: Guitarist whose virtuosity and fusions with other musical forms made him arguably flamenco's most influential artist
- Mavis Gallant: Québécoise writer who settled in Paris and found a home for her masterful short stories in the pages of The New Yorker
- Duffy Power: Blues and rock'n'roll singer whose troubled career still yielded collaborations with Jack Bruce and Bert Jansch
- Jimmy Jones: Rumbustious striker whose goals made him one of the most prolific scorers in the history of Irish football
- Carlos Gracida: Polo player acclaimed as one of the world's finest who taught the game to the Princes Harry and William
- Beatrix Miller: 'Vogue' editor whose own talents, and her nurturing of others', helped set the tone for the Swinging Sixties
- Harold Ramis: Actor, writer and director best known for 'Ghostbusters' and 'Groundhog Day' who was acclaimed as a comic giant
- Walt Ehlers: Staff sergeant who was awarded a US Medal of Honor for saving allied lives on the beach during D-Day
Voices
Voices RSS Feed - click to grab the feedComment
- Owen Jones: Give us Spitting Image back!
- It’s no good, Dawkins. No one’s going to abandon religion because some atheist is banging on at them about science
- While politicians bicker over self-serving definitions of poverty, a simple measure of ‘need’ is being overlooked
- Andrew Lloyd Webber's ‘Stephen Ward’ flops: Why can’t the West End do musicals any more?
- I’m truly honoured to be a home-town boy from Manchester... and it looks like I’m in good company
- The idea that Katy Perry meant to insult Islam in her new video 'Dark Horse' is ludicrous
- Never mind sharp-elbow parenting, David Laws. True equality of opportunity would mean the abolition of private education
- Dyslexic students get extra support, but what about those without the label who struggle with reading?
- If you want social mobility, don’t blame everything on the past
- How our nation of homeowners became ‘generation rent’
- As a key suspect in the 1982 Hyde Park bombing walks free, it’s worth remembering what mediation between once sworn enemies really means
- Usborne in the USA: Chuck Hagel’s incompetence will be welcomed by China and Russia
- Have a butchers? We hide from the truth about meat
- Sex education is key if the teenage pregnancy rate is to continue to fall
- Owen Jones: Socialism’s critics look at Venezuela and say, ‘We told you so’. But they are wrong
- Of course the Conservatives should be the party for workers. But they must also be the party for those out of work
- PMQs: Our witchfinder-general, aka Ed Miliband, wants to burn climate change deniers at the stake
- Why has Atos been taken on to handle NHS care.data despite the unmitigated disaster of ‘fitness for work’ tests?
- Assad's system of state terror tortured my son to death
- Letter from the Ireland Correspondent: Downey case will bruise the peace process
- i Editor's Letter: An improbable scenario – but not impossible
Editorials
- More planets means more chance of extraterrestrial life
- The Conservatives’ pledge to bring down net migration was always wrong-headed. Now we know it won’t be met
- Efforts to depoliticise climate change are welcome
- David Cameron hopes Angela Merkel will help him see off his party’s Eurosceptics. But she can’t and she won’t
- At last some leading Tories are tackling green problems
Commentators
- Grow up, grandpa: Years after 'Sachsgate', Andrew Sachs reveals he is still not talking to his granddaughter
- Unlikely odds of a Russia-Crimea reunification
- Angela Merkel visit: German Chancellor delivers reality check for Tory Eurosceptics
- The new Two Together railcard means flexible passengers can benefit from the lowest fares in western Europe
- Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Floods of praise for the PM – whatever next?
Life & Style
Life & Style RSS Feed - click to grab the feedGadgets & Tech
- British agents spied on Yahoo users' 'intimate' webcam images, Snowden files reveal
- Google Street View comes face to face with polar bears in the Canadian tundra
- Samsung Galaxy S5 knock-off arrives two days after the real deal, and for £400 less
- Nasa's tough and mobile 'jumble of tent poles' could be the future of space exploration
- 'Dad will die as he lived, covered by horrible crocheted blankets': US comedian Laurie Kilmartin live-tweets her father's death
- Boeing announce self-destructing 'black phone' for government agencies
- 'Mind boggling' trove of 1.25bn emails discovered for sale on online black market
- Mobile malware is growing and targeting Android users, warn Kaspersky
- Xbox One matches PS4: Twitch streaming arriving with Titanfall on 11 March
- Mini Museum: 33 of the world's most interesting objects on your desk for £140
- Iranian school teacher builds robot to teach children prayers
- Telegram Messenger: App built to foil Russian spies soars after WhatsApp trouble
- Google Glass wearer reportedly 'robbed and assaulted' in San Francisco bar by 'haters'
- Twitter restores rare username @N to hijacking victim
Student
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- London student fined £1,010 for chalk slogan protest
- Oxford student who killed herself after breaking up with her boyfriend had been 'harassed' by a lecturer, inquest told
- London students vote overwhelmingly to keep their union in the face of management plans to shut it down
- Cambridge beats Oxford in the latest global subject rankings
- Are graduates choosing freelancing over traditional careers?
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Volcanic eruptions ‘contributed to global warming pause’, scientists claim
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India's gay community scrambling after court decision recriminalises homosexuality
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Independence row gets vicious as First Minister Alex Salmond accuses UK Government of being 'thieves' who plunder Scotland's oil and gas reserves
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Now the two most famous scientific institutions in Britain and the US agree: 'Climate change is more certain than ever'
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Scottish independence: Warnings over pound ‘swaying undecided voters’ as poll shows strong lead for 'No' vote
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David Cameron's migration pledge 'in tatters', as figures reveal net immigration of 200,000
- 1 Saudi preacher who 'raped and tortured' his five -year-old daughter to death is released after paying 'blood money'
- 2 Is the right or left side of your brain more dominant? Take this quiz to find out
- 3 14-year-old floors the world with deceptively simple poem
- 4 Carrie Underwood: US country queen speaks out for gay marriage – but how will conservative fans take it?
- 5 The idea that Katy Perry meant to insult Islam in her new video 'Dark Horse' is ludicrous
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