In Scotland’s borderland, enthusiasm for independence elusive
The old battlefields where Englishmen and Scotsmen once shed each other's blood are a reminder of historic enmities in the border region.
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The old battlefields where Englishmen and Scotsmen once shed each other's blood are a reminder of historic enmities in the border region.
Traditionally, Saudi Arabia hasn't had much time for film. The country boasts no cinemas, and until last year, nothing but a handful of shorts had ever even been filmed on Saudi soil.
A Russian official referred last week to Great Britain as "a small island to which no-one pays any attention".
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The largest retailer in the world has set its sights on chemicals, with plans to increase transparency on chemical use while finding safer alternatives.
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More than 130 faculty members at Wellesley College have signed an open letter saying that they will urge the college to reconsider its institutional partnership with Peking University if a professor of economics there is fired for his outspoken advocacy of democracy and individual freedom.
Andrew Slattery, a rising Australian poet, won the Rosemary Dobson Prize in 2010 for a poem with powerful lines such as "bruised like a forceps baby"; "You keep old roads open by driving on the new ones" and "Death will come quickly like a cat jumping onto the bed".
A team of researchers who found that people think they are more attractive when drinking alcohol, have scooped an Ig Nobel prize for their work.