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Strasbourg honours liberation heroes 80 years after fall of Nazi regime

French President Emmanuel Macron will be in Strasbourg on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi rule. He will also visit Natzweiler-Struthof, the site of the only fully operational concentration camp on French soil.

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Gladiator II features a naval battle held in the Colosseum. These brutal spectacles really happened

It’s one of the most thrilling sequences in Ridley Scott’s new film Gladiator II, the long-awaited sequel to the 2000 Oscar-winning blockbuster.

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Cacti are surprisingly fragile – and five other intriguing facts about these spiky wonders

Few plant families are as iconic as the resilient, spiky cactus, thriving in the driest deserts and as well as decorating our offices and homes. Their success in both environments comes down to extreme adaptations for surviving with little water – whether braving the brutal sun or enduring weeks of…

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President-Elect Donald Trump Started Appointing His Next Cabinet — Here’s Why People Are Worried

As fears begin over what a second Donald Trump term could look like, the staffing of the Trump administration has some experts worried.

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Disaster survivors want to rebuild safer, more sustainable homes, but cost misperceptions often stand in the way

As Florida and the Southeast begin recovering from 2024’s destructive hurricanes, many people are asking: How can we rebuild sustainably and in a way that avoids the same damage, costs and trauma in future storms?

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Plants and animals with bigger genomes grow less efficiently – new research helps explain why they never died out

All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one of their cells. Yet the amount of DNA in each cell – what we refer to as genome size – spans an incredible range across the tree of life.

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Melbourne’s Capitol Theatre turns 100. A look back at the radical Modernist marvel that almost met an early end

Melbourne’s Capitol Theatre – and the reinforced concrete and steel-beamed building around it – turns 100 today.

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Colonialism’s legacy has left Caribbean nations much more vulnerable to hurricanes

Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw hurricanes and storms as part of the normal cycle of life.

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Ancient Scandinavians likely used animal skin boats to hunt and trade, study finds

Ancient people were one of Scandinavia’s first seafaring societies, study says

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Gen Z’s language might seem incomprehensible but slang has always sounded that way – just look at these five Victorian sayings

All Gen Z slang might sound like “skibidi” to older generations, but every era has had its own confusing slang. For every “gyatt” today (originally a variation of “god damn”, now referring to a curvy woman) there was a “dog my cats” or “od’s fish” in the Victorian era (both…

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Gangs’stories: From the streets of Dhaka to human-rights advocacy in Bangladesh

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through…

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The Innu have lived in eastern Canada for thousands of years, yet their rights to this land are increasingly threatened by the question: who is Indigenous?

A Canadian woman who fraudulently claimed her daughters were Inuit has been sentenced to three years in jail, in what is believed to be the first ever custodial sentence for a ‘pretendian’ … Nunavut justice Mia Manocchio said the case ‘must serve as a signal to any future Indigenous pretender…

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Exceptional new fish fossil sparks rethink of how Earth’s geology drives evolution

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two metres in length. For a long time, scientists believed they were extinct.

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Where did all these dragonflies come from?

If you’ve spent much time outdoors along the east coast of Australia in the past week, particularly near waterways, you’ve probably seen something quite interesting emerging: dragonflies, whether in ones and twos or what feel like clouds and swarms.

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Alexander von Humboldt: the groundbreaking naturalist who bankrupted himself to share his life’s work

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most famous figures of his time, not only in his native Prussia but throughout the world. In addition to being a leading geographer, climatologist, ecologist and oceanographer, he attached great importance to the dissemination of knowledge to society as a whole.

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A city at the crossroads: how Gaza became one of the great intellectual hubs of the Roman Empire

The years 2023 and 2024 will certainly be remembered as some of the darkest in the long and often violent history of Gaza.

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Ancient Rome had ways to counter the urban heat island effect – how history’s lessons apply to cities today

As intense heat breaks records around the world, a little-reported fact offers some hope for cooling down cities: Under even the most intense periods of extreme heat, some city blocks never experience heat wave temperatures.

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Aristotle, Aelian and the giant octopus: the earliest ‘citizen science’ goes back more than 2,000 years

If we want to research a subject, how do we do it? We could read about it in books or do experiments in a lab. Or another way is to find people who know something about it and ask them.

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‘You can’t murder a people and walk away scot-free.’ In The Voyage Home, Pat Barker explores morality in war

The first volume of Pat Barker’s trilogy of the Trojan conflict starts with an epigraph taken from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain: “All of European literature springs from a fight”.

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Joanna Murray-Smith’s new adaptation of Uncle Vanya reminds us Chekhov’s play is both timeless and timely

Virginia Woolf always maintained that, of all of the great writers, the British novelist Jane Austen “is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness”.

France 24

‘Fanatical colonialist’: The uneasy legacy of the French founder of modern Olympics

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the controversial French founder of the modern Olympics, is proving to be a divisive figure for organisers of the Paris Games. Yet while some deplore his sexist and colonialist remarks, others have praised his dedication to using sport to promote peace, viewing him as a visionary…

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Guide to the classics: On The Art of Physical Exercise, a 16th century account of ancient sports and workouts

According to the World Obesity Atlas, 42% of the global population will be overweight or obese in 2025. Lack of physical activity is one of the primary causes. Experts regard this as a serious health problem and in Greco-Roman times, too, doctors thought being overweight was bad for one’s health.

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Euro 2024 in a super election year: how the Olympic Stadium is putting Germany’s past front and centre

Germany is hosting the Uefa Euro 2024 men’s football tournament right in the middle of what has been called the country’s “super election year”. People are voting at local, state and European levels, amid renewed contests over Germany’s relationship with its Nazi past.

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Did people in Ancient Rome and Greece love the same way we do? Perhaps even more hopelessly

Sometime around 100 AD, the Roman lawyer and aristocrat Pliny sent a letter to his third wife, Calpurnia – who was staying in a different part of Italy – to express how much he loved and missed her:

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‘Gun control is dead and we killed it’: unmasking the ‘lonely incel’ who designed the world’s most popular 3D-printed firearm

Every year, on Easter Sunday, Irish republicans commemorate their martyrs, remembering lives lost during the 1916 Easter Rising and in the years since. Such events have a pattern: a street parade, speeches and flowers at the cemetery.

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