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Virtually painless – how VR is making surgery simpler

Surgeons and their patients are finding that virtual reality can relieve the pain and stress of operations – and it’s safer and cheaper than sedatives. Jo Marchant travels to a Mexican mountaintop village to visit a pioneering clinic

The US hunters who plan to blow each other's brains out

Englishman Andy Martin has a special American friend, Sam – a bear hunter who lives out in the woods. The two have a ‘health insurance plan’ that perhaps Trump and May will approve of. It’s called Montana-care, and when their time is done Andy and Sam will venture out into the wilderness – and blow each other’s brains out

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Matthew McConaughey urges Hollywood to 'embrace' Trump

John McDonnell says he respects Labour Article 50 rebels’ position

Donald Trump's travel ban separates badly burned Iraqi boy from family

Home Office 'pressured NHS to reveal confidential patient data'

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World news in pictures

  • 1/26 30 January 2017

    Polish President Andrzej Duda (C) and US Ambassador to Poland Paul Jones (background R), deputy Commander of US troops in Europe, General Timothy Ray (2-L) and the Commander of the ground forces of the US to Europe, General Ben Hodges (L), attend the inauguration of the Polish-US American military training with the participation of the US Armoured brigade Combat Group, on the range in Zagan, west Poland

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    US army M1 Abrams tank fires after the inauguration ceremony of bilateral military training between US and Polish troops in Zagan, Poland

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    Deputy Commander, United States European Command Lieutenant General Timothy Ray speaks during a ceremony opening Polish and US Army exercise on training fields in Zagan, Poland

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    Iranian top officials pray before the flag draped coffins in the funeral of 16 firefighters killed in the collapse of a burning building, in Tehran, Iran

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    Iranians firefighters and mourners gather around a fire track carrying the coffins of firemen killed when the city's oldest high-rise collapsed after a blaze, during their funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran

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    Iranians firefighters and mourners gather around a fire track carrying the coffins of firemen killed when the city's oldest high-rise collapsed after a blaze, during their funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran

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    A leprosy patient sits inside her room at the leprosy hospital in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. World Leprosy Day is observed on 30 January every year to increase the public awareness of the leprosy disease

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    A police officer stands by a monitor projecting images of migrants crammed into a van during a press conference to illustrate an anti-migrants trafficking operation, at the police headquarters in Milan, Italy. Police in Milan announced the results of a two-year investigation into a land-based trafficking network for migrants who reach Italy by sea. Thirty-four arrest warrants were issued in Italy, France and Germany against the Egyptian-headed organization that arranged for transport for the migrants from Sicily to Milan and beyond

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  • 9/26 30 January 2017

    People gather for Lunar New Year as lanterns hang from the trees at Ditan park in Beijing

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    Indian soldiers pay tribute at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial on Gandhi's death anniversary at Rajghat in New Delhi, India

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    Indian president Pranab Mukherjee pays tribute on the annual Martyrs' Day at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial in Rajghat, in New Delhi, India

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    Miss France Iris Mittenaere is overcome with emotion as she is crowned by Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2015 at the 65th Miss Universe pageant, Manila, Philippines

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    Iris Mittenaere from France is crowned the 65th Miss Universe by her predecessor, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach from the Philippines during the coronation night of the Miss Universe pageant at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines

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    Visitors pack a frozen river in Hwacheon, some 118km northeast of Seoul, South Korea, to fish for 'sancheoneo,' a type of mountain trout

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    Tourists look at tiger cubs born on the first day of the Lunar New Year and Year of the Rooster at Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand

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    Firefighters and rescuers look on as a bus is towed away from the site of a motor way pileup in which 65 people were injured, five seriously, along the A13 motorway close to Epone, southwest Paris

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    Firefighters and rescuers are seen at the site of a motor way pileup in which 65 people were injured, five seriously, along the A13 motorway close to Epone, southwest Paris

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    African Heads of State pose for a group photo ahead of the start of the 28th African Union summit in Addis Ababa on 30 January, 2017

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    Members of the Pollution Response Team remove black oil washed ashore as a thick oily tide from the sea lapped at the coast, a day after an oil tanker and an LPG tanker collided off Kamarajar Port in Ennore, in Chennai

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    Members of the Pollution Response Team remove black oil washed ashore as a thick oily tide from the sea lapped at the coast, a day after an oil tanker and an LPG tanker collided off Kamarajar Port in Ennore, in Chennai

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    Members of the Pollution Response Team lift the body of an oil-covered turtle from boulders at the coast, a day after an oil tanker and an LPG tanker collided off Kamarajar Port in Ennore, in Chennai

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    Protesters hold placards during a demonstration against the expected eviction of the Israeli settler outpost of Amona in the occupied West Bank, in Jerusalem

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    Protesters hold placards during a demonstration against the expected eviction of the Israeli settler outpost of Amona in the occupied West Bank, in Jerusalem

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    People float in the water as they participate in an event to attempt to set the guinness world record of the most people to float in water at the same time in Lake Epecuen, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A total of 2,000 people participated in the event

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    People enter the water as they participate in an event to attempt to set the guinness world record of the most people to float in water at the same time in Lake Epecuen, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

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    Residents watch the forest burn in Portezuelo, Chile. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has announced that the country will continue with its various measures to deal with wild fires, one of the biggest natural disasters in the country for decades

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Ibrahimovic 'in love' with Naples as agent talks up leaving United

Mino Raiola said the Swede grew up with the Neapolitan way of life

England's astonishing collapse hands India Twenty20 series victory

England lost their last eight wickets in just 19 deliveries for a paltry eight runs as the visitors fell 75 runs short of India's impressive score of 202

Editorial The White Paper will set out the Brexit options: hard or very hard

It seems to be sinking in to some Labour MPs tonight just how unfavourable the Brexit settlement is likely to be for the UK

Watch every day in Groundhog Day played at once

37 of Phil's looping days were shown in the film

Nils Bech talks Norwegian TV drama Skam, Bjork, and writing about love

'Love is this ever-changing thing, sometimes you grow out of it, sometimes into it… it’s the most fascinating thing. And the one thing that everyone keeps looking for, longing for, as one of the key essences in life'

Read Lena Dunham's Girls pitch to HBO which she fully admits was terri

'They are the Facebook generation and ironically enough they are isolated by all the connectivity'

Everything you need to know about Harry Potter Book Night

Bloomsbury is celebrating all things concerning the Wizarding World, in events taking place all over the globe in celebration of Hogwarts' professors

US pork industry moves to quash bacon shortage fears

Despite supplies hitting record lows in December, US Department of Agriculture confident demand can be met

The secret world of the A-list passenger at an airport

You too can enter the glamorous world of VIP flying - and it may not cost as much as you thought

The Don't Move, Improve awards name the most innovative extensions

A Japanese bath, a sliding staircase and a crow's nest-style lookout all featured in this year's search for the best extension projects in the capital

Pennsylvania baby starves to death in cot after parents overdose

These cartoons perfectly sum up what long-term relationships are like

Rents are falling but many Londoners spend half their wages on rent

These are the richest billionaires in 18 European countries

Facebook celebrates 'Friends Day' and it's not at all clear why

The event is being celebrated by showing everyone a video of a dancing person made of tiny pictures of their friends

WhatsApp: 16 tips and shortcuts to make the most of the messaging app

From dodging the blue ticks to typing hands-free and limiting data use, here are the best WhatsApp features you might not know about

Yakuza 0 review: A worthy addition to the series

Reviewed on PS4 - £39.00