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No ‘Pikachu’: Why is Japan at war against unconventional, ‘glittery’ names?

The Japanese government has passed a new law that seeks to quell pop culture-inspired ‘kira kira’ names.

Al Jazeera

Mourners fill St Peter’s Square as politics hangs over farewell to Pope Francis

Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets of Rome to send the Pope to his final resting place

The Independent UK

Edwyn Collins: ‘Could an Orange Juice reunion ever be on the cards? No!’

The singer-songwriter on breaking up his band, recovering from a stroke, being too old to be a punk, and the chaos of recording with Mark E Smith

The Guardian - UK

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"It was an opening into a world of rock 'n' roll, sleaze, sexuality, drugs, violence and danger." They might sound worlds apart, but The Smiths wouldn't have existed without The Stooges, the US punks who made Johnny Marr's favourite record of all time

In 1976, Manchester schoolboy Johnny Marr purchased a punk rock album that would change his life forever

Louder

From kinder treatments to miniature tumours: five breakthroughs in cancer research

Taking a chance on an untested idea can give rise to life-changing cancer treatments. Here are some of the most exciting developments and the new thinking behind them

The Guardian - UK

‘A community like this is interlinked’: how road deaths ripple through Australia’s small towns

A quadruple fatality near Hamilton and the Hunter Valley bus crash have highlighted the trauma of road deaths on close-knit communities

The Guardian - AU

Joyce joy as Galway bridge 20-year gap by sweeping Sligo aside in Connacht final

'It’s a bad sign that we didn’t do it in 20 years, but it’s a reflection of where we went to for a while.'

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‘Decisive number’ of islanders back buyout of estate

A PLAN to expand community land ownership in the Outer Hebrides has taken an “important step forward” after islanders backed the buyout of a…

The National (Scotland)

The Queen's hero pallbearers who had the most terrifying job in front of the world

They include man whose sole ambition was to parade for monarch, a Sandhurst instructor and a muscular bodybuilder

Wales Online

Long-awaited public buyout vote set to take place in Outer Hebrides

ISLANDERS seeking to expand community land ownership in the Outer Hebrides are hoping the results of a long-awaited vote this week will bring a major

The National (Scotland)

Gardai investigating after Bus Eireann vehicle 'attacked' in Cork city

The incident involved the 207A Bus Eireann to Glenthorn and resulted in one of the windows of the bus being smashed

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