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  • Standing tall

    2010-09-01 09:19

    A private troupe shows what it takes to make it in the nation's performing arts market.

  • J.K. Rowling gives millions for MS research

    2010-09-01 09:16

    "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has donated 10 million pounds ($15.5 million) to set up a new clinic to carry out research into multiple sclerosis (MS), the disease which killed her mother.

  • Parched English fields reveal ancient sites

    2010-09-01 09:16

    The exceptionally dry early summer months in Britain have revealed the ghostly outlines of several hundred previously unknown ancient sites buried in fields across the English countryside.

  • Top UK comedy award goes to English comic

    2010-09-01 09:16

    Britain's top annual comedy prize, the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award, went to England's Russell Kane at an Edinburgh Fringe festival ceremony on the weekend for his show "Smokescreens and Castles."

  • Long-lived Dutch might be bad news for insurers

    2010-09-01 08:54

    The Dutch are set to live longer -- good news for them but bad news for insurers that are expected to suffer from higher capital requirements and tighter profit margins as a result.

  • I'm learning British English here in Beijing

    2010-08-31 11:18

    When I moved from the United States to Beijing last year, I thought I would learn Chinese.

  • Get to know real China through its terrific food

    2010-08-31 11:11

    Food is a very funny thing; few items in the world consist of such a wide array of ingredients or cause such a wide array of reactions.

  • A bargain not worth sweating over

    2010-08-31 11:00

    "Let's see what's happening!", cried Ellen, as she saw a line that stretched around the corner.

  • Travel Picks: 10 top romantic hotels

    2010-08-31 09:54

    In need of a romantic break, but don't know where to go? Boutique hotel connoisseurs Mr & Mrs Smith (www.mrandmrssmith.com) play Cupid with a hand-picked selection of 10 of the most seductive stays worldwide.

  • Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Santiago, Chile

    2010-08-31 09:49

    A curious mix of old and new, Santiago boasts an ultra-modern business district nicknamed "Sanhattan" with gleaming high-rises and also has quaint, tree-lined neighborhoods that retain the warmth and color of the city's 500-year history.

  • When getting away means staying in touch

    2010-08-31 09:47

    People used to go on holiday to unplug. Now they're demanding to be plugged in.

  • What makes us human? Bringing food to a funeral

    2010-08-31 09:17

    Remains of the earliest known feast in a cave in Israel show that humans have been bringing food to funerals for millennia and suggest that burial feasts may have helped shape modern society, researchers said on Monday.

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