France has denied citizenship to a veiled Moroccan woman on the grounds that her ‘radical’ Islam is incompatible with French values, a legal ruling revealed.
The case will re-ignite debate about how to reconcile religious freedom with other rights, which…
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Heard the one about the eight-year-old Swedish boy who was told he had to invite everyone in his class to his birthday party, whether he liked them or not?
Last Christmas, towns in England were told to have “Happy Holidays”…
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Plans by Google to photograph millions of British homes and publish them online have been condemned as a ‘gross invasion of privacy’.
The internet giant’s StreetView website will allow anyone in the world to type in a UK address or…
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An ancient organism from the pit of a collapsed volcano may hold the key to tomorrow’s hydrogen economy. Scientists from across the world have formed a team to unlock the process refined by a billions-year old archaea. The U.S. Department…
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They lived in frozen wastelands with sparse food supplies, but Woolly mammoths had a dirty habit that may have helped them delay their eventual extinction – they ate their own dung.
Palaeontologists have gained a fresh insight into the diet…
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Fans of Britain’s longest-running wildlife soap opera can keep in touch all year round in future thanks to satellite technology.
Events at Loch Garten in Scotland’s Spey valley have fascinated nature enthusiasts world-wide for the half a century since ospreys…
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Humans could learn much about health, public transport and peaceful living by observing the behaviour of bees, the leader of Britain’s first bee-keeping research lab has claimed.
The sophisticated societies built up by the highly-social insects are to be studied…
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