Children and #39;s laureate and Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson writes a poem in protest at planned library closures across the country.

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Prostate cancer drug is currently available through the Cancer Drugs Fund, but funding issues mean patients could either have to buy it themselves or take out health insurance Men in England with late-stage prostate cancer could soon be stopped from accessing and #34;breakthrough and #34; drug abiraterone unless they can afford to buy the drug themselves or pay for private medical insurance. Trials of …

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Tokyo and #39;s edgy art scene is scattered across the city in bathhouses, backstreets and skyscrapers. Ashley Rawlings selects his favourite contemporary galleries • As featured in our Tokyo city guide SCAI The Bathhouse Tucked away in an old neighbourhood of traditional wooden houses and temples, SCAI The Bathhouse is one of Tokyo and #39;s most prestigious contemporary art galleries and perhaps also the most …

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Because instead of talking about what they know, some people talk about the questions that they ponder Remember last year and #39;s online Google Science Fair’ Well, hold on to your hats because they and #39;re doing it again this year! In partnership with CERN, Lego, National Geographic and Scientific American, Google has announced their second online science fair. This is the largest global online science …

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ChangeWave Research , a part of analytics and data research firm 451 Research , set out to research just that, interviewing a sampling of 254 North American Kindle Fire owners.

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Historian finds many of literature and #39;s best-known names in the London streets of Dickens and #39;s teenage years Bill Sikes and Scrooge are among the most well-known characters in English literature but rather than being figments of Charles Dickens and #39;s imagination, their names were derived from real people – and new research has pinpointed the writer and #39;s sources of inspiration. The thug from Oliver Twist, the …

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Scientists were seeking to uncover long-buried lake deep beneath ice sheet.

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A hoard of more than 300 medieval silver coins unearthed in a Maryport garden has been declared as treasure.

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A US graffiti artist who painted Facebook and #39;s offices is set to become a millionaire when the social network begins trading as a public company.

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Last-chance syndrome works wonders where big names are concerned.

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Last-chance syndrome works wonders where big names are concerned.

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Hubble has captured an incredibly sharp view of the heart of a galaxy just like ours – showing the and #39;bar and #39; of glowing gas being pulled towards the black hole at the galaxy and #39;s centre.

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A marine archaeologist told today how his sea exploration company discovered two World War freighters ontaining silver bullion worth £162million.

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Northern Ireland and #39;s bowel cancer screening programme is to be extended with more people being targeted across all of the health trusts.

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A photogenic Westchester suburb with high-profile residents is also known for its art museum and a performing arts center.

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NewUrbanJazz, now in its third season, is gaining traction with audiences, and the word is out among local artists of national stature that the concert series is a useful forum for delving into formats they don’t often explore.

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Russian scientists searching for lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years fail to respond to US colleagues

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Pharmaceutical companies have cut spending on television advertising by 20 percent over the last five years, according to a Nielsen study. Analysts expect drug advertising to continue to fall as more brand-name drugs face generic competition.

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Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry.

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This week and #39;s we pair Thomas Sayers Ellis and #39;s and #34;Or, and #34; with a 2011video and article from the and #34;Race Remixed and #34; series, and #34;In Strangers and #39; Glances at Family, Tensions Linger. and #34;

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Canvases that consist of the day, month and year of its making, recorded in simple white sans-serif text on a solid background, make up many of the works on view in On Kawara’s show “Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities,” at the David Zwirner Gallery.

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With their simple geometric shapes and quirky details, the small works in “Anonymous Tantra Paintings” at Feature Inc. are not intended foremost as art but as aids to meditation rituals.

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I have read David Copperfield many times now, and every time I pick it up again I think, Oh, it can’t be as good as I remember. It’s the story of a young boy who overcomes adversity and grows up to be a writer. That’s about the most cliché first-novel idea around. Except David Copperfield [...]

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“Van Gogh Up Close,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, examines the artist’s relationship to nature at its most intimate.

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Wendy Whelan and some young dancers making their debuts in “Interplay” were highlights of New York City Ballet’s program on Wednesday.

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A selected guide to classical music performances in New York and the area.

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The wayward birds could not be persuaded to follow a pilot flying an ultralight plane.

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Astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. Hubble and #39;s view of the distant background galaxy, which lies nearly 10 billion light-years away, is significantly more detailed than could ever be achieved without the help of the gravitational lens.

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There and #39;s new evidence that Dickens lived much closer to some of the characters in his novels than previously thought.

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A man is jailed for 18 months for stealing a World War I memorial plaque from a south-east London church.

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High to very high levels of air pollution in the Newry area have been detected, the Department of Environment says.

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Newt Gingrich and #39;s Tennessee campaign co-chair is none other than Tennessee GOP state Sen. Stacey Campfield, which seems only fitting since Campfield, too, appears to fancy…

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New service Alleyoop tries to teach math in an engaging, personalized way.

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and #34;All government business is done in English here. I don and #39;t need an official law saying that English is the de facto language. Everyone knows that already, and #34; said John Cook, mayor of El Paso, Texas — a border city in which 73 percent of its 800,000 inhabitants say they speak Spanish at home.

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WASHINGTON — The National Archives is preparing to unveil its 715-year-old copy of the Magna Carta after a conservation effort removed old patches and repaired weak spots in the paper that holds the English declaration of human rights.

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Artist Mike Kelley, whose unsettling installations helped define contemporary art in Los Angeles, has died at the age of 57.

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LEGENDARY American blues guitarist Jimmie Vaughan is set to headline this year’s Burnley International Rock and Blues Festival.

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JOURNALIST, former MP and Government Minister, Chris Mullin will be talking about the events which led to the wrongful conviction of just about all of the people convicted of the main IRA bombings in the mid-1970’s at the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society public lecture tomorrow.

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A Norwich primary school has been left without any ICT equipment for children’s lessons after it was broken into for the second time in less than a month.

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Alzheimer’s appears to spread through the brain like poison in a river, according to a study that and #39;s the first to track the destruction caused by an abnormal protein implicated in the disease.

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In a Chinese Court, Poetry Is Used as Evidence of and #39;Inciting Subversion of State Power and #39;

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Government sources said it would ditch the rules and #39;within months and #39; that let learners sit the theory test in any of 19 foreign languages – including Urdu, Russian and Albanian.

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A dozen women in black chadors crowd the home of a mourning widow and her unwed daughters.

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Neil Cunningham-Dobson, 55, was at the controls as the World War II cargo ship SS Gairsoppa and the World War I steamer SS Mantola were discovered in the North Atlantic last year.

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An actor known for his far-right views takes up his position as director of a prominent Hungarian theatre amid controversy and protests in the streets of Budapest.

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As the 200th anniversary of the birth of author Charles Dickens approaches, events are being held around the world to mark the occasion, reflecting the widespread popularity of his work.

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Art historians have hailed the discovery made during conservation work at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, as one of the most remarkable in recent times.

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A version of Microsoft and #39;s record-breaking Kinect motion and voice sensor is made available for use on Windows.

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The eruption of some of the largest volcanoes on the planet could be predicted decades before the event, research suggests.

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Scientists analyzing the release of genetically modified insects into the environment have found that access to accurate scientific information can be misleading.

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