The game is up for the 2012 Olympics and the Paralympic Games now take the stage. But what are the differences between the two? Firstly, the Olympic rings are not used in the Paralympics, which are instead represented by the red, blue and green agito
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Is it right to tell students to pack their bags and leave the UK halfway through their degree courses? Up to 2,700 overseas students have to leave the country or find an alternative course by 1 December, after a British university has been stripped o
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Do you appreciate the small things in life? In physics, infinitely small things are problematic. If a structure can be infinitely divided into smaller parts, can there be such a thing as a smallest possible space or does this division go on eternally
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For over 7,000 years, Asians have been brewing beer. But it's only in the past few years that Asia has overtaken Europe and America to become the world's biggest beer-drinking continent. With an increasingly young and upwardly mobile population, ther
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If you're studying a foreign language, you'll know that learning vocabulary can often be a painstaking process. After all, there are thousands upon thousands of words, expressions and idioms to learn. But sometimes, new words appear that can confound
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When was the last time you went to the cinema? Were you interrupted by someone munching loudly on their popcorn, or rudely texting on their mobile phone? These distractions may be common for many, but one cinema is now fighting back. It is attempting
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What is your favourite design? Do you think it will still be stylish in a hundred years' time? This week a group of UK designers have submitted their favourite designs to be placed in a time capsule and buried underground - it will not be reopened un
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Take every single object out of you--r house. Pose for a photo. Then, put everything back inside again. This is what photographer Huang Qingjun has been convincing people to do for the past decade. Families from 14 of China's 33 provinces agreed to s
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Police in the Philippines have arrested 58 people involved in an Internet extortion network. Theyare accused of posting fake profiles to socialnetwork sites, luring mostly elderly men intoexposing themselves in video chats which thenfilmed and used t
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The Nigerian Islamist militant group, Boko Haram,says it will sell more than 200 school girls who itkidnapped three weeks ago. The girls were takenfrom a school in the northeast of the country. TomiOladipo reports from Abuja. In a video released toda
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The US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Moscow to do all it can to bring about the release of European military observers abducted in eastern Ukraine. In a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Mr. Kerry also expressed concern ab
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Pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian cityof Sloviansk have released one of the eight membersof an international observer mission, they've beenholding since Friday. Five Ukrainian observers all saidhave been held. Bethany Bell reports. 乌克
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Now to South Korea where President Obama has offered support for the country on the second leg of his Asian tour amid signs that North Korea could be preparing a fourth nuclear test. Satellite images have shown increased activity close to North Korea
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The United States has imposed further sanctions on Russia in response to what it called the country's illegal intervention in Ukraine. The sanctions target seven individuals and 17 Russian companies linked to President Vladimir Putin. Barbara Plett U
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Pro-Russian militants have attacked official buildings in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, seizing several of them. The protesters took control of the city's regional administration building and the prosecutor's office and later opened fire wit
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Police have arrested one of northern Ireland's most prominent politicians the Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in connection with a murder that took place more than 40 years ago. He's been questioned about the killing of Jean McConville who was abducted
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Ukrainian police say more than 30 people have been killed in a fire that broke out after clashes between pro-Russian militants and government supporters in the southwestern city of Odessa. It's unclear what caused the fire at the trade union's buildi
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The United States says the release of international observers abducted by pro-Russian militants in Ukraine is a step in the right direction, but that the Kremlin needs to do much more to deescalate the situation. Secretary of State John Kerry said Mo
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Hundreds of people aremissing after a landslide in the northeast ofAfghanistan. That is according to a provincialgovernment spokesman whos been speaking to theBBC. It is feared that an entire village has beenwiped out. More than 350 victims have been
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The Nigerian President Good luck Jonathan has spoken publicly for the first time about the abduction of more than 200 school girls in the northeast of the country three weeks ago. Mr. Jonathan promised to secure the release of those still held. From
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