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What I wish I’d known about living with an anxiety disorder
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To some extent, anxiety is an entirely logical response to being alive, and being a human among other humans. When I was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder in my 20s, this thought would have been helpful. To ...
Gay rights activist among latest known victims of Ukraine war
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A gay rights activist from Kharkiv, Shchemur was killed during the Russian bombardment of the city centre, her colleagues at Kharkiv Pride said on Thursday. She was killed at the local territorial defence office where...
Piers Morgan ‘must have known’ about Daily Mirror phone hacking, say lawyers
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Piers Morgan “must have had knowledge of voicemail interception” and other unlawful information gathering techniques when he was editor of the Daily Mirror, it has been claimed at the high court. Lawyers acting for al...
The Djokovic shambles highlights what refugees have long known – Australia’s ‘God powers’ are dangerously broad
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Australia has some of the strictest border laws in the world. The immigration minister has some of the broadest, and least reviewable, powers of any of his global equivalents. The shambolic Djokovic affair has confron...
Edward O Wilson, naturalist known as a ‘modern-day Darwin’, dies aged 92
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Edward O Wilson, a US naturalist known to some as the “modern-day Darwin”, died on Sunday at the age of 92 in Massachusetts, his foundation said in a statement. Alongside the British naturalist David Attenborough, Wi...
Rhik Samadder tries … mushing: ‘I’ve never known animal joy like it!’
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I have a dream: that dream is to ride a dog like a horse. That isn’t possible. But I’ve heard the next best thing is possible, which is why I’m freezing in a field in Tewkesbury. Gloucestershire may not be Lapland but...
Bobbi-Anne McLeod had no known link to murder suspect, police say
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Police investigating the killing of 18-year-old Bobbi-Anne McLeod, who disappeared from a bus stop in Devon, have confirmed there is no known link between her and a man being held on suspicion of murder. In an attempt...
Noma: the hidden childhood disease known as the ‘face of poverty’
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Fidel Strub was three when the inside of his cheek started to itch. After a few days, it felt like it was burning, then it began to smell as if it was rotting. A splitting headache came next before his whole body star...
Rain fell on Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time ever known. Alarms should ring
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Many people believed he couldn’t do it. Ski across the Greenland ice sheet, a vast, unmapped, high-elevation plateau of ice and snow? Madness. But Fridtjof Nansen, a young Norwegian, proved them wrong. In 1888, he and...
New Zealand Covid update: mystery case emerges in Auckland with no known link to outbreak
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New Zealand has recorded 11 new coronavirus cases in the community, as health officials race to find a link between a mysterious case that emerged in Auckland and the outbreak. New Zealand’s outbreak of the highly inf...
Why has rugby taken so long to wake up to what boxing has long known?
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They hanged Del Fontaine at Wandsworth prison early on Tuesday 29 October 1935, three months and 19 days after he shot his girlfriend Hilda Meek having overheard her arranging a date on the phone and convinced himself...
Big John, largest known triceratops skeleton, goes on display before auction
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In its time, approximately 66m years ago, the triceratops, with its massive collared skull and three attacking horns, was one of the most dangerous and daunting of dinosaurs. Now the remains of one of the giants of th...
‘Wiggly’ fossils found in Canada may be oldest known sign of animal life
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Intricate patterns of tubular structures discovered in giant ancient reefs may be the remnants of prehistoric horny sponges and the oldest known fossils of animal life on Earth. Researchers found the unusual features ...
Banksy trademarks two of his best known artworks in Australia
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The street artist Banksy has successfully trademarked two of his most famous artworks in Australia, in an attempt to stop them being copied and sold. The secretive artist applied for the trademarks via a law firm base...
How the Small Business Administration’s new chief plans to make the agency known
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Isabella Guzman is the new administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA). And she’s got a long-term problem. No, it’s not about pandemic loans or the bottleneck in disbursing grants under other stimulus ini...
Yr Wyddfa: push for Snowdon to be known only by Welsh name
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Most of the hundreds of thousands of visitors who hike to the top of Wales’s highest mountain each year know it as Snowdon. But a task group is to examine whether this English moniker should be ditched and only its We...