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Not in their name The BBC decided to start calling the Islamic terror group Isis by the acronym IS instead.…
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Tough at the top The clocks on Big Ben were cleaned by abseiling window-cleaners. Some other big cleaning/painting jobs: —…
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Old world Brazil has struggled to get ready for the World Cup, even though it hosted it before, in 1950.…
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Escape committees An LSE/Institute for Government report estimated the cost of Scottish independence at £2.7 billion, a sum arrived at…
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Animal spirit A labrador blown up with her handler while sniffing for bombs in Afghanistan in 2008 became the 64th…
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Years of war Imaginative souls have tried to compared the situation in Ukraine with that which preceded the first world…
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Fat chances The National Obesity Forum said that Britain is reaching a ‘doomsday scenario’ where half the population is obese.…
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The test of a wave Waves measuring 27ft from peak to trough were seen off Land’s End as the stormy…
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Other people’s rocks Spain threatened to introduce a €40 border-crossing charge and find other ways of making life difficult for…
