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Four dead as boat carrying asylum seekers capsizes in Indian Ocean
Tuesday 16 July 2013
Hundreds have died making the journey from Indonesia to Christmas Island and the Australian mainland in recent years
Massive ice sheets melting 'at rate of 300bn tonnes a year', climate satellite shows
Sunday 14 July 2013
The Grace satellite measures tiny fluctuations of the Earth’s gravity field resulting from the loss of ice into the sea
Album review: Jay Z, Magna Carta Holy Grail (Virgin EMI)
Saturday 06 July 2013
“Welcome to the magnum opus,” he insists and his 12th album is certainly magnum: 59 often leaden, mostly hubristic minutes to make that 1215 Grand Charter seem like light relief.
Watch out for the hot flushes (a few billion years away): Earth enters its mid-life crisis
Friday 05 July 2013
The far-future Earth will be very hostile to life, says expert
Unprecedented extremes and warmest decade since modern measurements: grim report from World Meteorological Organisation
Wednesday 03 July 2013
Both the northern and southern hemispheres experienced the warmest temperatures for both land and sea
Stand by for another DECADE of wet summers, say Met Office meteorologists
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Climate change may be intensifying the natural cycle and may prolong it, says expert, but it is too early to say
Today at the Champions Trophy: Michael Clarke weighs up return for must-win Champions tie
Monday 17 June 2013
AUSTRALIA V SRI LANKA
Champions Trophy: Kieron Pollard wicket from final ball sends West Indies out
Friday 14 June 2013
South Africa 230-6 (Ingram 73); West Indies 190-6 (Samuels 48) Match tied (D/L method)
Turtle conservationist shot dead 'by poachers' on Costa Rica beach
Sunday 02 June 2013
Jairo Mora Sandoval, 26, died just weeks after posting a Facebook plea for police help with turtle-egg thieves
Unexplained shadow 600ft under Pacific could be Amelia Earhart’s missing plane
Friday 31 May 2013
Experts believe they may have solved the mystery over where aviator’s aircraft lies
Fifa are now at the 'forefront of governance standards' according to Sepp Blatter
Friday 31 May 2013
President claims football's world governing body has come through a tough spell
Charity swimmers rescued from sea off the coast of Southwold
Sunday 26 May 2013
A search and rescue operation was under way today after dozens of people taking part in a charity swimming race had to be pulled from the sea, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said.
James Wharton profile: A young man in a hurry
Thursday 16 May 2013
Friend of Sri Lanka hopes to catch the eye of Tory leaders
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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