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What is the ‘normal birth movement’ and why can it be harmful?
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The scandal of avoidable baby deaths in Shrewsbury, Inghilterra, was partly caused by an obsession with natural birth, an independent inquiry found this week. A 234-page report was deeply critical of the culture at Shrews...
Extremes of 40C above normal: what’s causing ‘extraordinary’ heating in polar regions?
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Unusually high temperatures in both Antarctica and the Arctic in recent days have shocked researchers, who warn that extremes will become more common as a result of the climate crisis. Concordia station, high on the A...
US and allies set to revoke normal trade relations with Russia over Ukraine war, says Biden – follow live
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Daisy Edgar-Jones on life after Normal People: ‘Should I be living it up more? Is this how our 20s are supposed to be?'
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‘I’ve been told,” says Daisy Edgar-Jones, “that the trick for posing at film premieres is to put one foot forward, lift your chin, and basically try to emanate with your face that you’re a top-class lawyer who’s won a...
Abandon ‘normal birth’ targets, hospitals in England told
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Hospitals in England have been told to abandon targets aimed at limiting the number caesarean sections carried out, over fears for the safety of mothers and babies. Maternity units were told in a letter to stop pursui...
From flexible working to voice notes: 11 things in our lives that are ‘normal’ for 2022
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There are many things we consider normal today that we wouldn’t have done just three years ago. To a certain degree, that’s life. It moves on. But at the same time, the happenings of the past few years – from extreme ...
Normal human being Rashford rises above frenzy of amateur analysis
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What’s eating Marcus Rashford? Here’s a thought: maybe nothing. Rashford was once again on the bench against West Ham. He stayed there for 62 minutes as United produced a performance that was energetically blank, fran...
‘A normal tactic’: Myanmar’s aid workers vow to press on despite Christmas Eve massacre
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“The events of last week are just par for the army’s inhumanity and immorality.” So says Michael Isherwood, chair of the Burma Humanitarian Mission and program director of Backpack Medics, after Myanmar’s junta massac...
How ‘new normal’ of wild weather put strain on UK nature in 2021
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It was a year of fire and storms, of crumbling cliffs and falling trees, all of which put a huge strain on flora and fauna, according to an annual audit of the impact of the weather on nature in the UK. There were man...
Dining across the divide: ‘He’s such a nice guy but supports Brexit. He’s young; it’s not normal’
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Occupation Support worker and neuropsychology master’s studentVoting record Batuhan is not eligible to vote in the UK. In the last Turkish local government elections, he voted for the centre-left Republican People’s ...
Villarreal’s Pau Torres: ‘It’s not normal that a club from such a small town does so well’
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The entire town watched as history was made, except Pau Torres, who was making it. It was late on 26 May and Vila-real, population 51,293, was about to become the smallest place to have a football team win a European ...
‘There is no normal’: what it’s like to be a teenager today
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In summer 2018, photographers Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt were at the tail-end of a road trip from Montana to Austin when they were diverted to a gas station in a small Texas military town. It was two in the mo...
Normal people are run out of town in Battersea Power Station’s plastic playground
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I read something once about property developers and how they can privatise the public realm with architecture. It was so insightful and profound that, ovviamente, I immediately forgot who wrote it, where I’d seen it, un...
Henry Normal: ‘Comedy’s like sugar. It makes things better but I wouldn’t eat it on its own’
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Comedians become actors, pop stars become TV presenters … we’re used to artists switching lanes. Seldom travelled, anche se, is the road leading from performance poetry to TV producing – TV producers not being renowned ...
L'economia del Regno Unito è in un posto strano, considerando che dovremmo tornare alla normalità
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Prima c'erano gli scaffali dei supermercati vuoti e la carenza di personale "pingdemico", ora Nandos ha finito il pollo e l'industria automobilistica è a corto di patatine. È uno stato di cose insolito per un paese in cui si supponeva la normalità...
‘We can’t go back to normal’: The US had deep inequalities before Covid. These women are fighting to make the recovery equitable
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Dr Ana Caskin treats underserved populations in Washington DC, in parts of the city where life expectancy is 20 years lower than it is in places that are a 20-minute train ride away. The last thing she wants when the ...