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  Museum lovers social networking
Date: February  23, 2009  

Museum visitors will be able to share their cultural passions in a social networking website.A group of the UK s most famous museums, including the British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum, is creating a collective website.As well as finding information about exhibits, museum lovers can use the website to create communities based on their hist
  Child abuse alters stress gene
Date: February  22, 2009  

Abuse in early childhood permanently alters how the brain reacts to stress, a Canadian study suggests.Analysis of brain tissue from adults who had committed suicide found key genetic changes in those who had suffered abuse as a child.It affects the production of a receptor known to be involved in stress responses, the researchers said.The Nature Ne
  Poetry passion
Date: February  22, 2009  

By Clare SantryGranada, NicaraguaNicaragua has a rich history of poetry, and a common passion for the spoken word which unites class and cultural divides.This past week has seen the Fifth International Poetry Festival take place in the beautiful, old city of Granada, bringing together more than 130 poets from 54 different countries.Poets from Ugand
  Kyrgyzstan leaves US out in the cold
Date: February  21, 2009  

As the Kyrgyz parliament decides to close the only US military base in the country, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes considers the strategic and political impact of the announcement."Kurdistan" One of my friends asked, "why are you going to Kurdistan""Not Kurdistan," I said "Kyrgyzstan."He should perhaps be forgiven for confusing it with Central Asia.Mongoli
  Obama hails fastest US tax cut
Date: February  21, 2009  
President Barack Obama has said US tax bills will begin to fall from April, hailing a tax cut he called the fastest ever to take effect.In his weekly radio and internet address, President Obama said the typical American family would gain by at least $65 (£46) a month.He also pledged to cut America s trillion-dollar deficit.The tax cuts announced
  Injuries feared in Pakistan blast
Date: February  20, 2009  

Several people are feared wounded after a bomb exploded at a funeral procession in north-western Pakistan, police say.The attackers targeted the funeral of a Shia Muslim man who was gunned down on Thursday, police said.The blast took place in Dera Ismail Khan, a town close to Pakistan s semi-autonomous tribal area, which has a history of sectarian
   Superguns of Elizabeth I s navy
Date: February  20, 2009  

The English navy at around the time of the Armada was evolving revolutionary new tactics, according to new research.Tests on cannon recovered from an Elizabethan warship suggest she carried powerful cast iron guns, of uniform size, firing standard ammunition."This marked the beginning of a kind of mechanisation of war," says naval historian Profess
  Primary education is deficient
Date: February  19, 2009  

Children in England are getting a "deficient" primary education because schools are focusing too much on maths, English and testing, a report has said.Their right to a broad curriculum is being "needlessly compromised" and their lives "impoverished" by the "standards agenda", the report claims. The Cambridge Primary Review s interim report is part
  Pay to play
Date: February  19, 2009  

By Julian JoyceBBC NewsDame Vera Lynn is reportedly outraged over the inclusion, without her consent, of her famous song, The White Cliffs of Dover, on a CD sold to raise funds for the far-right British National Party (BNP).But the 91-year-old former forces sweetheart - who is said to be consulting her lawyers - is unlikely to win any legal battle
  Past times
Date: February  19, 2009  

By Daniel ThomasBBC Business Reporter, Points West"It s been the most difficult three to four months of my career," archaeologist Roland Smith said.And he is not the only archaeologist to feel the knock-on effects of the cutbacks in the construction industry.Mr Smith, resources director at Wessex Archaeology in Salisbury, Wiltshire, said his firm h


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