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A demonstrator, protesting the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown, stands his ground as police fire tear gas in Ferguson

Tear gas: What is it and what does it do to your body?

Tear gas was recently used to disperse crowds in Ferguson, Missouri

These images show the crowds outside Buckingham Palace and Berlin Cathedral in August 1914 as war was declared

First World War Centenary: Powerful images that capture the moment cheering Europe heralded the declaration of war

Photos make stark contrast with those from bloody battlefields in years that followed

People pass the Royal Courts of Justice next to Serbian soldiers marching in the Lord Mayor's show, London, in the last days of the First World War in November 1918

First World War Centenary: Powerful photographs bring wartime Britain to life

Composite images put moments from the conflict in the present day

Empire Day at the Hall, 1918

First World War centenary: When the Albert Hall went to war

A quarter of its staff enlisted to fight, but there was also important work to be done by the rest...

Inside the brothels that served the Western Front: How one First World War soldier found love in the arms of a French sweetheart

Theirs was an impossible relationship – the Welsh officer and his young French sweetheart. Yet when Lieutenant William Morgan's granddaughter discovered a biscuit tin of photographs from the Great War, it wasn’t the shots of their affair that shocked...

Lost portraits of the Somme: 100 images of Tommies posing before they went over the top. Now can you help to identify them?

A cache of a local photographer's portraits has come to light in a study of doomed youth
Field of broken dreams: Andy Bell visits Passchendaele

5 News's Andy Bell retraces his grandfather's steps on the First World War battlefields

Andy Bell only knows his grandfather from the compelling diary he kept during the war. But when he returned to the killing fields where Edwin Vaughan suffered so much, his ancestor came to life
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in France and Belgium dedicated to First World War casualties number 2,400 and visitor numbers have never been higher

We will remember them: relatives still honour those who fought in the Great War

Any direct connection with the conflict has gone but we’re not ready to consign it to history, says John Lichfield

Crowds in London celebrate the end of hostilities in 1918

A History of the First World War in 100 moments: After 1,560 days, at the eleventh hour, the guns fall silent – but for how long?

The conclusion of the ‘war to end all  wars’ was greeted with understandable jubilation. But, writes Boyd Tonkin, new storm clouds were already gathering

John Oborne went into the trenches in February 1918: 'We spent most of our time sat in a hole in the damp old earth'

The First World War in the words of the men who fought it: "Everything was mud and water and continuous shelling. Hell with the lid off"

Ten years ago, Max Arthur interviewed the last 21 British veterans of the Great War, the oldest of which was 109. Nearly all the men were talking about their experiences for the first time

The interior of the railway carriage in which the Armistice ending the First World War was signed

A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: Peace without magnanimity - the summit in a railway siding that ended the fighting

John Lichfield on the strange meeting in the forest of Compiègne that culminated in the signing of the Armistice

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke, circa 1920

A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: The German people demand an end to the fighting

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke describes to his wife the rising tide of popular unrest in Munich

Wilfred Owen in uniform as a 2nd Lieutenant. The poet was teaching in France when the war began

A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: Dulce et decorum est - a life cut short for a poet whose work achieved immortality

Wilfred Owen’s death, like his poems, captured the pity of war. John Walsh charts his journey from innocence to iconic status

American troops advance on a German position on the Saint Mihiel salient, north-eastern France, in 1918

A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: America unleashes the doughboys of war in the battle of Saint-Mihiel

When the US expeditionary force launched its first independent action, the results were devastating

Captured German officers receiving orders from a French officer

A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: The ‘blackest day’ of the German army - and the assault that finally broke its spirit

John Lichfield describes the unexpectedly spectacular Allied breakthrough that launched a 100-day push to victory

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Israel-Gaza crisis: The ceasefire is holding - just - but the devastation remains

A month in the life - and death - of Gaza

The ceasefire is holding - just - but the devastation remains as our reporter Kim Sengupta discovers
Pro-suicide websites pushed my teenage son to take his own life

Pro-suicide websites pushed my teenage son to take his own life

Campaigner urges action to control access to ‘terrifying’ swathe of legal sites
New book reveals why being First Lady of France is a miserable existence

Bonjour tristesse: why being first lady of France is no bed of roses

New book claims presidents’ wives live like prisoners in Elysée Palace
eBay suffered its tenth major outage this year - but is the internet really full up?

Is the internet really full up?

An online outage this week shut down websites such as eBay - a consequence, apparently, of the internet bursting ts digital zip
Harriet Wran goes from penthouse to jail house: The downfall of the Australian heiress who had everything

From penthouse to jail house

The downfall of the Australian heiress who had everything
Melting glaciers are caused by man-made global warming, study shows

Melting glaciers caused by man-made global warming, study shows

Scientists rule out natural causes for rapid melting
Angela Merkel dislikes Gerhard Schröder's big black desk - so what does their choice of workspace says about other leaders?

What does their workspace says about leaders?

Angela Merkel revealed that she doesn't like Gerhard Schröder's big black desk, preferring to work at the small writing-table in front of it
Gluten-free food in Italy: The land of pizza and pasta is remarkably clued up about catering for those with coeliac disease

Gluten-free food in Italy

The land of pizza and pasta is remarkably clued up about catering for those with coeliac disease
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Weekend waterproofs: 10 best festival raincoats

Whether you’re heading to V Festival or Bestival, make sure you pack a cover-up to protect you from the elements
Paul Scholes column: Louis van Gaal looks a scary man. Good. He has already restored the fear factor at Manchester United

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Van Gaal looks a scary man. Good. He has already restored the fear factor at Manchester United
Children let down by law that allows internet grooming

Children let down by law that allows internet grooming

The MP Sarah Champion says police need better tools to catch predators
Vicky Beeching, star of the Christian rock scene: 'I'm gay. God loves me just the way I am'

Vicky Beeching: 'I'm gay'

The singer and religious commentator discusses her sexuality for the first time and reflects on the political ramifications of coming out as a lesbian
Great British Bake Off, episode 2, TV review: 'Corny puns remain part of endearing appeal'

Bake Off's corny puns remain part of endearing appeal

It's not going to set the comedy world alight but it's a gentle evening watch
UK's three leading lagers - Budvar, Heineken and Stella Artois - are indistinguishable, according to blind taste tests

UK's leading lagers are 'indistinguishable'

Researchers at the Stockholm School of Economics found that volunteers couldn't tell the difference between Budvar, Heineken and Stella Artois in a blind taste test
Lauren Bacall: Sultry film-noir legend who taught Humphrey Bogart how to whistle and starred with Monroe and Grable

A queen of the silver screen goes to her Big Sleep at last

The death of Lauren Bacall, aged 89, marks the end of both a screen legend and a movie era