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News
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- To Leave a Light Impression: Darren Almond at White Cube
- Pope's bad hat day
- Iran: Lake Orumieh shrinks dramatically due to a climate change
- Prince Charles takes part in Middle Eastern knife dance
- Deadly clashes in Kiev continue
- The Arlette Gruss Circus presents its new show in Bordeaux
- Launch of the World Book Day in Dublin
- Destiny Miliband wins the internet
- Aerial shots of flooding along the River Thames
- Sony World Photography Awards Student Focus competition finalists are announced
Weird News
- Pranksters pull off convincing Olympic Torch hoax in New York City
- Cows make more milk when listening to slow jams
- Fifty Shades of Grey bear with handcuffs deemed 'safe for all ages' goes on sale
- First came Rickrolling, now Piña Colliding
- Viking apocalypse: End of the world predicted to happen on Saturday (but don't cancel your weekend plans yet)
- Video of goats balancing on wobbly metal sheet could melt the gruffest of hearts
- Death of a clown: Why America’s red-nosed ones are disappearing
Science
- Beyond Cern: Now physicists prepare to construct the even Larger Hadron Collider
- New type of marsupial which mates frantically then dies has been discovered
- Monkey uses its mind to control another primate, in tests scientists hope could help paralysed people
- Elephants console each other in times of distress
- What are sinkholes, how do they form and why are we seeing so many?
- Asteroid 2000 EM26 'as big as three football fields' hurtles past Earth
Obituaries
- Ken Jones: Stage and screen all-rounder who acted in groundbreaking new drama and created the prison snitch in 'Porridge'
- Samantha Juste: 'Disc maid' on 'Top of the Pops' who wrote for teenage girls and launched a range of fashion and jewellery
- Ralph Waite: Patriarch in 'The Waltons' who led his screen family through the hardships that fuelled his political vision
- Rowan LeCompte: Artist who taught himself a medieval craft and created windows that reflected both ancient and modern beliefs
- Mark Bennett: Downing Street insider who went on to lead a local authority and spearhead life-enhancing projects
- Christopher Barry: Creator of hit series 'All Creatures Great and Small' and 'The Onedin Line' who ushered Daleks into British homes
- Pamela Vandyke Price: Wine expert whose acerbic writing scorned supermarket brands in favour of independent and traditional makers
- Andy Paton: Centre-half for Motherwell and Hamilton Academical with an eye for the ball that verged on the clairvoyant
- Sebastian Barker: Poet born into a literary dynasty whose own distinctive voice was inspired by a sense of place
Voices
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- Mohammad Asghar case: An open letter to Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain
- Mohammad Asghar case: To a Muslim of Pakistani heritage, this is a disgrace
- Usborne in the USA: A new pandemic sweeps America - Obsessive Anti-Hillary Syndrome
- Cossacks using whips to clear members of Pussy Riot off the streets of Sochi? Who are these brutal enforcers?
- Use films to teach history? Only if kids need a lesson in historical half-truths
- Of course negative stereotypes about teenagers harm their job prospects. Most teens want to work
- Owen Jones: The reality behind the job stats
- Owen Jones: The drug we ignore that kills thousands
- Not for entertainment: 12 Years a Slave's no laughing matter
- Ukraine: What's happening? And how will it end?
- Gender inequality isn't just a female problem
- The left has a blind spot on Venezuela. When will it acknowledge that Chavez's socialist dream has turned into a nightmare?
- For Wayne Rooney, unlike Daniel Sturridge, it's not easy being a Christian footballer
- i Editor's Letter: Life sentences get a new ruling
- Inside Whitehall: What Downing Street doesn't want you to know
- The trouble with the economic recovery is it mainly benefits those already doing well
- Nigel Farage: Surprise, surprise, Brussels is weighing into the Scottish debate
- Letter from Asia: It will take a magic trick to protect Delhi’s unique colony of performers
- London by bus with Andrew Adonis - day three
- Call the Midwife is making bold steps in portraying disability
- From Gran Turismo to real life racing: Why we shouldn't be so surprised at Jann Mardenborough's transformation
- Winter Olympics 2014: How can one possibly get excited about curling? Very easily, it seems
- We're all exhibitionists now
- Owen Jones: My latest battle to stop the demonising of people on benefits
- London's property bubble shows no sign of bursting but hipsters aren't the problem
- Why a prosecution for a Neknomination dare wouldn't happen
- Whole-life sentences: Why ignoring the European Court of Human Rights was the only sensible option
- Ellen Page coming out is news – and so long as gossip websites try and police the way women look and live, these public statements should be celebrated
- i Editor's Letter: Why so many of you are being turned off politics
Editorials
- Starvation nation
- Classroom monitor
- There are signs of a decline in seasonal flu. But the quest for a vaccine remains as important as ever
- Universal Credit: The real flaw in IDS’s benefits reform is the timetable
- The Speaker is right to try to stop the barracking in Parliament. But the solution is simply better-behaved MPs
- As seen with Benefits Street, TV is a powerful medium that must be used responsibly
Sport
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- Winter Olympics 2014: David Murdoch inspires Great Britain to clinch place in men's curling final
- Winter Olympics 2014: After demanding medals, Vladimir Putin looks on as Russia are knocked out of ice hockey tournament
- Winter Olympics 2014: Team GB women curlers must focus on bronze after losing semi-final to Canada
- Winter Olympics 2014: Bode Miller bows out of Winter Games after he confirms he will not compete in Friday's slalom
- Winter Olympics 2014: Lizzie Yarnold gold post box petition receives tens of thousands of signatures overnight
- Winter Olympics 2014: Elise Christie advances in short track speed skating as Team GB get back on track in Sochi
- Winter Olympics 2014: A giant leap for Vanessa-Mae, but a small step back for the cause of women's sport
- Winter Olympics 2014: British freestyle skier Rowan Cheshire ruled out of halfpipe event after training crash leaves her concussed
- Ski flying: the gnarlier, even more dangerous, faceplant-ridden 1980s cousin to Sochi's jumps
- Two members of Pussy Riot 'detained in Sochi' are released
- Winter Olympics 2014: Great Britain's men's curling team see off Norway in nail-biting tie-break to reach semi-finals
- Bode Miller: Life on the edge
Student
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- President Obama sends hand-written apology to professor after mocking history of art degrees
- For science! London university turns laboratory into a pub to study students' drinking habits
- Edward Snowden elected rector of Glasgow University
- Students' final grades at risk as university lecturers threaten the ultimate sanction: a marking boycott
- Policemen charged over claims that they illegally arrested a student protester
- Nearly 40% of graduates still hunting for jobs six months after leaving university
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Denmark bans kosher and halal slaughter as minister says ‘animal rights come before religion’
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One in four Americans 'don't know the Earth orbits the Sun' and only half believe in evolution
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Bernie Ecclestone ‘completely agrees’ with Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws, and so do ‘90 per cent of the world’, says F1 boss
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Ukraine crisis: Bloodshed on Europe's doorstep as EU tries and fails to stop killing
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Scottish independence: Alex Salmond hits out at George Osborne over 'ill-informed' comments in row over keeping the pound
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Ukip ‘disowns’ Cambridgeshire councillor Peter Lagoda following complaints he used ‘racist and offensive’ language
- 1 Viking apocalypse: End of the world predicted to happen on Saturday (but don't cancel your weekend plans yet)
- 2 Robert Mugabe's most eccentric quotes: from Hitler to Jesus Christ to being gay
- 3 The left has a blind spot on Venezuela. When will it acknowledge that Chavez's socialist dream has turned into a nightmare?
- 4 Bernie Ecclestone ‘completely agrees’ with Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws, and so do ‘90 per cent of the world’, says F1 boss
- 5 A town like Nirvana: Washington's Aberdeen is honouring its most famous son with its first annual Kurt Cobain Day
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