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Storm floods New Orleans as Gulf Coast braces for possible hurricane
Parts of Louisiana could see up to 12 inches of rain by Monday.
Skull unearthed in Greece ‘belonged to first known European’
It dates back 210,000 years and is the earliest evidence of modern humans on the continent - rewriting the history of mankind
Man arrested after scaling Buckingham Palace’s front gates
The man tried to gain entry to the palace at around 2am, according to the Metropolitan Police.
£100bn on HS2 not worth spending to create ‘some jobs in Birmingham’, MP says
Tory MP Victoria Prentis said there are more cost-effective ways to boost employment in the UK.
London’s climate could be more like Barcelona’s by 2050, study suggests
Pairing up cities can help people visualise the impacts of climate change, such as the risk of the kind of severe drought that hit Barcelona in 2008.
Mystery of sex change in fish unlocked, scientists say
Around 500 species like clownfish made famous by Finding Nemo and the Caribbean bluehead wrasse, routinely change their sex in adulthood.
Amal Clooney: Trump making honest journalists more vulnerable to abuse
The human rights lawyer has championed the benefits of a free press.
Police arrested suspect more than five years after hammer horror killing dubbed a real ‘Midsomer murder’
Valerie Graves was bludgeoned to death in December, 2013, at her home in a sleepy Sussex village of Bosham.
Indonesia sends back waste containers to Western nations
Indonesia is sending dozens of containers of waste back to Western nations after finding it was contaminated with used nappies, plastic and other materials, adding to a growing backlash in Southeast Asia against being a dumping ground for the developed world’s rubbish. The country’s directorate general of customs said Tuesday that 49 containers in Batam port near Singapore will be returned to Australia, the US, France, Germany and Hong Kong. Indonesian custom officers show off the front of a foreign...