Children are to be taught a foreign language from primary one, learning minister Alasdair Allan has announced.

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Super Furry Animals’ front man Gruff Rhys and Julian Cope will be among the line-up at a new festival celebrating Wales’ literature and landscape.

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Scientists exploring marine life in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year uncovered a shipwreck site believed to be 200 years old. The site was scattered with cannons, muskets and a variety of other items, according to the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).

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On Wednesday, during the later of two sets with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at the Blue Note, Brian McKnight was in scholar mode, tackling classics from the Ellington catalog and happily turning them into McKnight songs.

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The artist often befriends the designers whose clothing she wears, because she relates to their lifestyle.

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A selected guide to classical music performances in New York.

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Twitter thinks it has found a way to make accurate and useful recommendations of who to follow. Twitter will do it by tracking your reading habits– if you want and let you completely opt-out if you don’t.

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The fourth Brooklyn Folk Festival comes to downtown Brooklyn this weekend, and it features sounds of the South, and of Eastern Europe and Central America.

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Domenico Gnoli’s paintings on view at Luxembourg and Dayan are humorous in an oddly solemn way, though they do not parody styles of contemporary advertising or product design.

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[Cameroon Tribune] Prime Minister Philemon Yang on May 16 received the institutions and #39; officials.

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Cancer is a devastating disease, and not just for humans. It is the number one cause of death in dogs over the age of two

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Please Don and #39;t Stop The Music scoops the annual Romantic Novel of the Year award

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One thing is true about happiness: There are very few new truths out there.

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What and #39;s it like to stare into the roiling mouth of an active volcano’ Pretty darn cool, say scientists who work at Antarctica and #39;s Mount Erebus, home of one of Earth and #39;s only long-lived lava lakes.

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Donna Summer, the gospel-raised singer who bridged 1970s disco and the pop music that followed with hits such as “Love to Love You Baby,” “Last Dance” and “She Works Hard for the Money,” has died. She was 63.

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A migration guru and his wife have been jailed for scamming the UK Border Agency.

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[This Day] The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and stakeholders in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) have commended the National Information Technology Agency (NITDA) on its strides in ICT development.

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People with email access multitasked twice as much as those without, measured by how often they changed computer screens (37 times per hour compared to 18 times per hour).

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Welsh speakers would be able to access fully bilingual public services if new plans outlined for the language are given the go-ahead.

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Immigration has leaped to its highest level in 16 years in Germany, with spikes in the number of arrivals from crisis-hit Spain and Greece, figures show.

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The 10 titles on the short-list for the Scottish Album of the Year award are announced.

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A moderate earthquake rattled an area in east Texas near the Louisiana border.

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A playwright and her husband who were facing deportation, win an Asylum and Immigration Tribunal case.

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Classic car run ends at The White Horse in Beyton, raising money for the Sarah Aplin charity. The girls with the collection buckets. Left to right – Lauren Godfrey, Steph Lee, Sophie Goodwin, Amanda Cooper, Beth Noble and Danielle Ashford.

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An Aberdeen schoolboy is set to appear in the final of a BBC Shakespeare performance competition on television this weekend.

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and #39;I fell into a lake aged six and saw the most beautiful world. My work is about getting back there and #39; Why have you always been drawn to video’ I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used . It was a rare time of collaboration rather than …

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May 17 (Bloomberg) — Hong Kong’s art scene goes into overdrive this week as Asia’s billionaires descend on the city for the Hong Kong International Art Fair, which features 266 galleries from 39 countries.

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Deaths from cancer in Britain have fallen 40% in people aged 50 to 59, according to figures produced by Cancer Research UK Deaths from cancer among 50-somethings have fallen to their lowest level in 40 years, thanks to better diagnosis, fewer people smoking and new drugs improving patients and #39; chances of survival. In 1971 over 21,300 people in the UK aged between 50 and 59 died of cancer, but in …

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In a new study analyzing Internet usage among college students, researchers have found that students who show signs of depression tend to use the Internet differently than those who show no symptoms of depression.

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The American Ballet Theater opened its run at the Metropolitan Opera House with Kevin McKenzie’s staging of “Giselle.”

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From understanding what digital literacy is, to developing skills and establishing ethical principles for students, our live chat panel share ideas and resources for universities Josie Fraser , social and educational technologist, Leicester City Council First define what you mean by digital literacy: The definition I most frequently use is this one: digital literacy = digital tool knowledge …

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New laws to cut the size of the board which runs the National Library of Scotland are passed by MSPs, as part of wider reforms.

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For 10 months, Carolyn Abbott waited for the other shoe to drop. In April 2011, Abbott, who teaches mathematics to seventh- and eighth-graders at the Anderson School, a citywide gifted-and-talented school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, received some startling news.

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AN ARTIST who popularised the modern-day limerick is the latest to be person honoured with a green plaque in Westminster.

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The National Hurricane Center and #39;s director says his successor will face the same problem that has perplexed forecasters since Hurricane Andrew barreled into Florida two decades ago: predicting how bad a storm will be.

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A new study on chlorothalonil, one of the world and #39;s most common fungicides, shows it was lethal to a wide variety of freshwater organisms.

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PEOPLE are urged to squeeze into a theatre show.

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Germany and #39;s Central Council of Jews says Holocaust survivor and scholar Arno Lustiger has died at age 88.

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Health data released on Wednesday provided the clearest evidence to date of the spread of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease from developed nations to poorer regions such as Africa, as lifestyles and diets there change

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The new U.S. ambassador to Malta has said farewell to 27 Somali and Eritrean refugees headed to the United States under a refugee resettlement program.

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Ever read about UFOs in Spanish or Hebrew’ Omnipedia software lets Wikipedia users browse topics in 25 languages, and get a foreign cultural perspective

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Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America and #39;s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83.

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Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is to write the script for Sony Pictures and #39; upcoming biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

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A magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook Papua New Guinea on Wednesday morning, the US Geological survey reported. The quake struck 29 miles west of Kimbe town on the island of New Britain.

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During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, changes in air pollution were associated with changes in biomarkers of systemic inflammation and thrombosis (formation of blood clot) as well as measures of cardiovascular physiology in healthy young persons, according to a new study.

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Both candidates and their allies are pouring money into commercials to win over voters who might not be paying much attention.

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Felicity Kendal visits Indian prisoners who perform Shakespeare, and discovers the impact the playwright has had on Indian culture.

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Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America and #39;s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83.

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On Monday evening the American Ballet Theater offered exhilarating sections amid a largely predictable series of bedroom pas de deux and fouetté turns.

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Fresh thoughts on the challenges in attributing extreme weather to human-driven climate change.

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