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Are you a bookworm? Is your head permanently stuck in a book? If so, that's a good thing. There are many benefits to reading. Getting into a good novel improves our literacy. But who or what encourages us to pick up a book and start reading? Of cours

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All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players... This famous quote from As You Like It describes perfectly a festival starting today, which celebrates that play's famous author. As part of the World Shakespeare Festival, all of th

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The 100th anniversary of the ship they said would never sink has been remembered in a number of special events this week. It was on the night of April 15th 1912 that the world's largest ship, Titanic, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage. The owner

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Anticipation is running at fever pitch; excitement off the scale. Now, this week, the brand new Harry Potter studio tour finally opened its doors to the public. Fans have been impatient for more of Harry Potter and his friends since the book and film

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This week, wealthy wine connoisseurs will have the chance to get the vintage of their dreams... providing they don't lose their bottle at the last moment. The auctioneer Sotheby's will be selling three collections of the finest wines in London. The w

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Can you imagine what 680,000 tonnes of food looks like? That's the amount wasted in Britain each year, and at the top of the list of wasted foods is... bread. One of the staples in the British diet, bread is toasted for breakfast, used for sandwiches

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Hundreds of people aremissing after a landslide in the northeast ofAfghanistan. That is according to a provincialgovernment spokesman whos been speaking to theBBC. It is feared that an entire village has beenwiped out. More than 350 victims have been

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The United States says the release of international observers abducted by pro-Russian militants in Ukraine is a step in the right direction, but that the Kremlin needs to do much more to deescalate the situation. Secretary of State John Kerry said Mo

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Police have arrested one of northern Ireland's most prominent politicians the Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in connection with a murder that took place more than 40 years ago. He's been questioned about the killing of Jean McConville who was abducted

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Pro-Russian militants have attacked official buildings in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, seizing several of them. The protesters took control of the city's regional administration building and the prosecutor's office and later opened fire wit

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The United States has imposed further sanctions on Russia in response to what it called the country's illegal intervention in Ukraine. The sanctions target seven individuals and 17 Russian companies linked to President Vladimir Putin. Barbara Plett U

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The Nigerian Islamist militant group, Boko Haram,says it will sell more than 200 school girls who itkidnapped three weeks ago. The girls were takenfrom a school in the northeast of the country. TomiOladipo reports from Abuja. In a video released toda

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For over 7,000 years, Asians have been brewing beer. But it's only in the past few years that Asia has overtaken Europe and America to become the world's biggest beer-drinking continent. With an increasingly young and upwardly mobile population, ther

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Do you appreciate the small things in life? In physics, infinitely small things are problematic. If a structure can be infinitely divided into smaller parts, can there be such a thing as a smallest possible space or does this division go on eternally

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The game is up for the 2012 Olympics and the Paralympic Games now take the stage. But what are the differences between the two? Firstly, the Olympic rings are not used in the Paralympics, which are instead represented by the red, blue and green agito

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The man formally known as Sir Fred Goodwin is going to have to get used to being called plain old Mr Goodwin. He has now lost his knighthood. The former head of Royal Bank of Scotland became the subject of a public outcry after RBS had to be bailed o

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You are feeling very sleepy... These are not words normally addressed to policemen. But this might well be the sort of language directed to officers in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Senior officers there have called in a hypnotist to help

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Good morning. Are you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after your recommended eight-hour sleep? Or perhaps instead you dropped off for four hours, got up, had a chat, smoked tobacco and visited some neighbours before hitting the sack for another four hou

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For decades we've been sending signals into space and listening out for out of this world broadcasts. But what's the plan if signs of intelligent alien life are detected? Those likely to be at the receiving end of a cosmic signal are the scientists a

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With the final Harry Potter movie premiering next week, fans of the wizard may be wondering where to go next. Well, on 31 July Harry Potter's birthday the website Pottermore will go live. The site will allow users to rediscover the Harry Potter saga.