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Last Updated: Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 12:20 GMT 13:20 UK The fashion chain Zara has withdrawn a handbag from its stores after a customer pointed out that the design featured swastikas. Zara said the bag came from an external supplier and the symbol had not been visible when it was selected. A customer who returned the bag to the shop when she noticed the symbol said staff had been "shocked"

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Modern life is too demanding to turn out the lights and we're more sleep deprived than ever before. How can we get back in the habit of grabbing shut-eye? Ask someone how they are and their response, more often than not, is "fine but a bit tired". Not surprising when one in three of us have sleep problems, according to recent research. The medical profession calls it tatt, short for "tired all the

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Rawicz's story described an escape from Siberia through Tibet to India An epic story of human endurance is being challenged. Did wartime prisoners really walk from Siberia to India? In 1956, a Polish man living in the English midlands published an extraordinary book that became one of the classic tales of escape and endurance. In The Long Walk, Slavomir Rawicz described how, during the Second Worl

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The night was filled with the noise of artillery fire and I woke up three times. But since there was no school I got up later at 10 am. Afterwards, my friend came over and we discussed our homework. Today is 15 January, the last day before the Taleban's edict comes into effect, and my friend was discussing homework as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Today, I also read the diary writte

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Google engineers have adapted a software program to help track child sex predators and search for patterns in images of abuse on the web. Google has created the technology for the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). It was originally developed to block copyrighted videos on the company's YouTube division. The program uses pattern recognition to enable analysts to sort and i

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Uttering expletives when you hurt yourself is a sensible policy, according to scientists who have shown swearing can help reduce pain. A study by Keele University researchers found volunteers who cursed at will could endure pain nearly 50% longer than civil-tongued peers. They believe swearing helps us downplay being hurt in favour of a more pain-tolerant machismo. The work by Dr Richard Stephens'

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Plans to fill a nuclear landmine with chickens to regulate its temperature were seriously considered during the Cold War. Civil servants at the National Archives say it is a coincidence the secret plan is being revealed on 1 April. The Army planned to detonate the seven-tonne device on the German plains in the event of having to retreat. Operation Blue Peacock forms part of an exhibition for the N

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Page last updated at 15:45 GMT, Friday, 3 February 2012 Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks, the BBC has learned. Experts say customers should follow banks' official advice, use up-to-date anti-virus software and be vigilant. Spencer Kelly explains, with the help of some rather outlandish wigs, how malware changes and

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To mark his 70th birthday, physicist Professor Stephen Hawking answered a selection of questions from listeners to Radio 4's Today Programme. Topics ranged from the origins of the universe to the prospects for extra terrestrial life and the impact on Einstein's theory of relativity should neutrinos be confirmed to travel faster than light. It seems clear that Professor Hawking believes we we will

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Page last updated at 16:30 GMT, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:30 UK Following the riots in England, text messaging and social networks such as Twitter could be turned off during disturbances - under plans being considered by the government. Spencer Kelly examines whether BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook can be blamed for the trouble and if it would be possible to silence them. Follow the Cli

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The mood is upbeat. Those who cannot cram into the pub stand outside, cowering under umbrellas against the lashing rain, trying to catch a glimpse of the royal visitor and his glamorous South African fiancee. Another bar and a young, red-faced man, a university graduate, is being wished good luck and safe travels by a large group of family and friends. Despite the rapid downing of pints and singin

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EMBARGO 00:01 GMT 07 March 2011 Positive Views of Brazil on the Rise in 2011 BBC Country Rating Poll Positive views of Brazil have sharply improved in the annual BBC World Service Country Rating Poll of 27 countries around the world. Positive views of Brazil’s influence jumped from 40 to 49 per cent on averagei over the previous year, with negative views dropping to just 20 per cent. Views of Braz

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The Muslim Brotherhood is vying to become an official party in post-Mubarak Egypt. The conservative Islamist views of some of the group's members scare many in Egypt and the West, but, as Tim Whewell has been finding out, many members, particularly young activists, are much more moderate. Along a chaotic, bustling working-class street in the Alexandria suburb of el-Wardian, wedged between furnitur

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On Sunday Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libya's leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, appeared on Libyan state television telling protesters to clear the streets or face rivers of blood. The contrast to his appearance as a guest speaker at the London School of Economics (LSE) two years ago could not have been more stark. Having just donated £1.5m to the university to fund its Global Governance Unit, he

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Live coverage of the sixth day of anti-government protests in Egypt, which has seen thousands of demonstrators return to the streets nationwide. This page updates automatically, there is no need to refresh.

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Live coverage of the fifth day of anti-government protests in Egypt, as tens of thousands of demonstrators return to the streets in several cities, after the Egyptian president fired his cabinet and promised reforms but refused to step down. 0010 We're going to close down our minute-by-minute coverage of events in Egypt for the night, but you can continue to read regular BBC updates here. With ong

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Page last updated at 13:18 GMT, Thursday, 27 January 2011 The Asian Football Confederation will take no action over Ki Sung-Yeung's perceived racist celebration following his goal against Japan. And the South Korean authorities claim the Celtic midfielder's intention was to highlight abuse he has received while playing in Scotland. But Show Racism the Red Card chief executive Ged Grebby questioned

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Page last updated at 15:50 GMT, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 Prince Charles's favourite alternative pharmacy has been attacked by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society for suggesting that homeopathic remedies can be used to prevent serious diseases such as typhoid, polio and malaria. The Society told Newsnight they are shocked that anyone would suggest using those products instead of vaccinations and drug

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An independent investigator for the UN says racism in Japan is deep and profound, and the government does not recognise the depth of the problem. Doudou Diene, a UN special rapporteur on racism and xenophobia, was speaking at the end of a nine-day tour of the country. He said Japan should introduce new legislation to combat discrimination. Mr Diene travelled to several Japanese cities during his v

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Page last updated at 23:37 GMT, Monday, 16 June 2008 00:37 UK Management speak - don't you just hate it? Emphatically yes, judging by readers' responses to writer Lucy Kellaway's campaign against office jargon. Here, we list 50 of the best worst examples. 1. "When I worked for Verizon, I found the phrase going forward to be more sinister than annoying. When used by my boss - sorry, "team leader" -

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A dozen or so Japanese tourists a year have to be repatriated from the French capital, after falling prey to what's become known as "Paris syndrome". That is what some polite Japanese tourists suffer when they discover that Parisians can be rude or the city does not meet their expectations. The experience can apparently be too stressful for some and they suffer a psychiatric breakdown. Around a mi

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The earliest plants to have colonised land have been found in Argentina. The discovery puts back by 10 million years the colonisation of land by plants, and suggests that a diversity of land plants had evolved by 472 million years ago. The newly found plants are liverworts, very simple plants that lack stems or roots, scientists report in the journal the New Phytologist. That confirms liverworts a

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I met a man the other day who runs a film institute, teaching young film-makers in Baghdad the art of making movies. He told me something shocking - most of his students had never been to the cinema. Why not? "There are no cinemas in Baghdad anymore," he said. That is the answer you always get, but it is not actually true. There are cinemas, but they are not the kinds of places you would want to b

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A couple suspected of hurting their three-month-old son and who spent nearly two years fighting to clear their names, have won the right to tell the full story of what happened to them after a landmark legal ruling. It is every parent's nightmare. Your child is badly hurt and you are accused of doing it. But that nightmare became a reality for first-time parents Jake and Victoria Ward, from Cambri

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California thinks it has found a way to deal with recidivist paedophiles by putting them in a comfortable mental hospital. Indefinitely. But is this the answer, asks Louis Theroux. I'd been at Coalinga a couple of days when Mr Rigby showed me his dormitory. He'd been a high school sports coach before being convicted of molesting some of his students. He told me he was a great appreciator of the ma

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In the summer of 1995, two years after being designated a United Nations Safe Area, the Bosnian town of Srebrenica became the scene of the worst massacre in the Bosnian war. This is an account of the critical days leading up to the killings. 6 - 10 July 1995: The Bosnian Serb Army attacks Srebrenica - within a UN safe area previously held by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Civi

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Goal-line technology is back on the agenda after Fifa revealed this World Cup is set to be the last tournament under the existing refereeing system. Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke told the BBC that TV replays showing Frank Lampard scoring a goal against Germany was a "bad day" for organisers. And Valcke suggested changes will be made before the 2014 World Cup. "We're talking about a goal not

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This has allowed it to map the almost imperceptible differences in the pull exerted by the mass of the planet from one place to the next - from the great mountain ranges to the deepest ocean trenches. Two months of observations have now been fashioned into what scientists call the geoid. "I think everyone knows what a level is in relation to construction work, and a geoid is nothing but a level th

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Sitting up straight is not the best position for office workers, a study has suggested. Scottish and Canadian researchers used a new form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to show it places an unnecessary strain on your back. They told the Radiological Society of North America that the best position in which to sit at your desk is leaning back, at about 135 degrees. Experts said sitting was know

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