A biography of the banker Siegmund Warburg, who built his empire in London after his flight from Nazi Germany.

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A biography of the banker Siegmund Warburg, who built his empire in London after his flight from Nazi Germany.

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ONE of the archaeologists who dug up gardens in Brighton in search of new victims of serial killer Peter Tobin, 63, has spoken of her disappointment at not finding a body.

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ONE of the archaeologists who dug up gardens in Brighton in search of new victims of serial killer Peter Tobin, 63, has spoken of her disappointment at not finding a body.

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How does the modern-day peacock navigate our post-metrosexual age’ If the men’s collections are any indication, with a full face of makeup. Painted faces turned…

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How does the modern-day peacock navigate our post-metrosexual age’ If the men’s collections are any indication, with a full face of makeup. Painted faces turned…

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THE Queen Victoria cruise liner will sail along the Firth of Forth today as it continues on its historic tour of Great Britain.

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THE Queen Victoria cruise liner will sail along the Firth of Forth today as it continues on its historic tour of Great Britain.

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Thursday said the greatest threat to national security is radical Islam, but the greatest battlefront for that threat is at home. “This is not a war on terrorism … this is a struggle with radical Islamists,” Mr. Gingrich told a group of about 200 …

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Where are you now and what can you see’

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One afternoon earlier this summer, in a Somerset meadow, David Crisp stumbled upon 52,000 Romano-British coins, the second-largest such hoard of its kind ever unearthed and presently on exhibit in the British Museum. Almost 800 of these were minted during the reign of Carausius, which lasted from around AD286 until AD293, the first ruler since the conquest in AD43 to govern Britain without the …

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An American man has found after a 27-year-search the wreckage of a Second World War bomber in which his air force pilot cousin was killed.

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The BBC’s Mark Worthington looks into the false teeth that ‘helped win World War II’.

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Michelangelo, the 16th century master painter and accomplished anatomist, appears to have hidden an image of the brainstem and spinal cord in a depiction of God in the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, a new study reports. These findings by a neurosurgeon and a medical illustrator may explain long controversial and unusual features of one of the frescoes’ figures.

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A fourth-grade Christmas pageant in Abraham Lincoln’s rural Illinois hometown sets off a firestorm of controversy when it calls into question Abraham Lincoln’s sexuality.

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Cherokee, a nine-year-old bald eagle, went missing on Saturday. A BALD eagle has gone missing after a medieval re-enactment at the weekend.

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The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in central European markets. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names. Share prices are from the last close.

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Filmmaker Oliver Stone apologized for remarks about the Holocaust and Jewish media influence that were criticized as being anti-Semitic.

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The Vatican’s top art historian on Monday shot down a report in its own newspaper that suggested a recently discovered painting was a Caravaggio.

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The Cunard liner Queen Victoria sailed into the River Mersey on Monday.

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A regional newsroom is to be featured on the BBC’s popular The One Show as part of a series on what makes places special. Presenter Angelica Bell and a BBC crew visited the Worcester News offices to find out more about its sister title Berrow’s Worcester Journal – the worldâs oldest continuously published newspaper.

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A Scottish artist unveils one of the world’s longest tapestries, which depicts the march of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

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Galileo Galileis right thumb and sinewy index finger reach skyward to the stars. They are shrunken with age and are reunited, after more than a century, with his right middle finger. They sit in a glass case spotlight, below a miniature bust of the great scientist.

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The high-tech nature of modern warfare has made the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq among the costliest in American history.

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It is the year 1241. Good King Louis XI is on the throne of France. The son of Bad King John, “average” King Henry III is on the throne of England and struggling, as ever, against his revolting barons. Medievally speaking, we are in a prosperous and peaceful period. There is a brief lull between two crusades. The Black Death is still a century away.

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With suicide attempts increasing sixfold in the Army, lawmakers must do more to reach and comfort battle-weary soldiers.

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Britain says it plans to spend more than $170 million building an airport on the tiny, remote South Atlantic island of Saint Helena.

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The PM has made a good start, but there is always treachery abroad, says Bruce Anderson.

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Steering clear of crocodiles and navigating around massive submerged trees, a team of divers began mapping some of the 25 freshwater pools of Cara Blanca, Belize, which were important to the ancient Maya. In three weeks this May, the divers found fossilized animal remains, bits of pottery and — in the largest pool explored — an enormous underwater cave. The dives will continue later this summer.

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Niccolò Machiavelli was a wise and subtle political thinker, but for centuries his name has stood for unscrupulous scheming and duplicity. It has never…

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RUNNYMEDE council has started planning the months of celebrations that will mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, despite the landmark date still being five years away.

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It is 350 years since one of the UK’s most famous diarists put pen to paper. But what was Samuel Pepys really like’

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Activists at the world AIDS forum in Vienna Wednesday lobbied for a ‘Robin Hood’ tax on financial transactions to defeat the funding crisis gripping the war on AIDS.

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THE memoirs of a 91-year-old Scottish former prisoner of war have become a surprise hit on one of the world’s biggest online bookstores.

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‘Are these the kings of whom the griots sang’ Are these their descendants’ We do not know them, but we know from which lines–between those…

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A transvestite had sex with a dog in the moat of an English Heritage castle.

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HISTORIANS take note for a Roman Day will take place in Welwyn this weekend.

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HISTORIANS take note for a Roman Day will take place in Welwyn this weekend.

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Their bodies had been dumped into mass graves by German soldiers – for years they lay unmarked, unnamed, unknown.

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Their bodies had been dumped into mass graves by German soldiers – for years they lay unmarked, unnamed, unknown.

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I understand that our President prefers consensus to confrontation, but his fear of being cast as the “angry black man” is leaving a vacuum. Olbermann does a mean Edward R. Murrow, but his ratings don’t compete with Limbaugh or Beck.

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People confronted with acute stress — daily rocket attacks — tend to dissociate from threats instead of becoming more vigilant, according to a new study. This research overturns accepted convention and may lead to better understanding of the mechanisms underlying acute stress reactions.

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A tiny neolithic figurine from Orkney misses out on a prize at this year’s British Archaeological Awards.

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On a blistering hot Friday morning in Las Vegas, Nevada, an unusual crew strolls out the VIP entrance of one of the most luxurious hotels in town and steps into a stretch limousine.

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An entourage of royal boatmen has set out on stretches of the River Thames in England to begin this year’s count of the waterway’s swan population an annual practice dating back to mediev…

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The last of 250 soldiers discovered in First World War communal graves will be reburied today in a ceremony marking the completion of a new cemetery in memory of thousands who died at the battle of Fromelles.

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At the dark end of the street That’s where we’ll always meet -Gram Parsons One the insights I got from Gary Rivlin’s book, Broke…

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Divers discovered what is thought to be the world’s oldest drinkable champagne in a 200-year-old shipwreck under the Baltic Sea.

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IN 2014 the Scottish Government intends to hold another Year of Homecoming, to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.

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