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Sirius: The brightest star in the night sky

Sirius is visible on the far left of the above photograph, to the left of the co...

NGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster

Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way. Back in the old days, back when our ...

When roses aren't red

Not all roses are red of course, but they can still be very pretty. Likewise, th...

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Middle East and North Africa

Baghdad, US turn to Iraqi Kurds for oil exports as Iran...

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Culture

Orchids, plums and pine cones – all bursting out of cat...

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Villagers on Príncipe, the ‘African Galapagos’, to be p...

A billionaire is funding a sustainable development project on the west African i...

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‘Everyone feels like they are being scammed’: can Centr...

Family-run farms in El Salvador and Honduras face mounting losses, rising costs ...

World

Labour strikes deal to remove hereditary peers from Lords

They will no longer sit in upper chamber after current session ends in May

World

How Iran’s ‘horizontal warfare’ could trap Trump in ano...

Widening the conflict is a classic tactic for outgunned combatants, and has cost...

Sports

Igor Tudor’s position untenable as Tottenham humiliated

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Mount Etna begins rumbling

11 March 1669.

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China–North Korea passenger train services to resume af...

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At least 97 youths - the youngest just 11 - are being monitored after coming und...

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Sirius: The brightest star in the night sky

Sirius is visible on the far left of the above photograph, to the left of the co...

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