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‘Weird Al’ Yankovic's latest video is an ode to good grammar. But what do The Independent’s experts think he’s missed out?

A cult movie event aims to immerse audiences of 80,000 in ‘Back to the Future’. But has it lost its magic?

Family events used to be marked in the personal columns. But now Facebook has usurped the ‘Births, Deaths and Marriages’ announcements

All of us have one but probably never wondered why. Yet even now, a century after blood types were discovered, it’s a matter of debate what they’re for

Five hotels in Paris now allow guests to pay only what they think their stay was worth. It seems fraught with financial risk, but the honesty policy has its benefit

The Scottish swimmer is ready for ‘the biggest race of my life’ at the Commonwealth Games

The welfare claimants battling to alter stereotypes

Amazing video shows Nasa's 'flame extinguishment experiment' in action

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And our children are suffering because of it

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Glenn Mulcaire was jailed for six months for intercepting phone messages. James Hanning tells his story in a new book. This is an extract

Child abusers are not all the same, yet the idea of treating them differently in relation to the severity of their crimes has somehow become controversial

For instance, did Isis kill the Israeli teenagers to trigger a war, asks Patrick Cockburn