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Around 500 species like clownfish made famous by Finding Nemo and the Caribbean bluehead wrasse, routinely change their sex in adulthood.

The human rights lawyer has championed the benefits of a free press.

Valerie Graves was bludgeoned to death in December, 2013, at her home in a sleepy Sussex village of Bosham.

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...

Nine deer at a famed park in western Japan have died recently after swallowing plastic bags. Nara Park has more than 1,000 deer and tourists can feed them special sugar-free crackers sold in shops nearby. The crackers do not come in plastic bags but people still carry them. A veterinarian said the deer may associate the plastic with food. The Nara Deer Preservation Foundation said nine of the 14 deer that have died since March had plastic in their stomachs....

"With only one exception, none of the companies are performing at the level we wish to see, the country expects and the environment needs," said the Environment Agency.

The Government has a “ramshackle, Dad’s Army” approach to making sure England can cope with the impacts of rising temperatures, its climate advisers warn. And UK action to slash the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change is lagging far behind what is needed, even before the Government set a tougher new target to cut pollution to zero overall by 2050. In its annual progress report to Parliament, the advisory Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said the Government had to show...

School uniforms in Wales are to become more affordable, accessible and gender-neutral, the Welsh Government announced. The new guidance comes into force from September 1 and provides advice for governing bodies and head teachers on issues relating to school uniform policy. The previous 2011 guidance was non-statutory, therefore schools were not legally required to have regard to it. Minister for Education Kirsty Williams has announced the new guidance for schools (Andrew Matthews/PA) Governing bodies will be expected to consider ways...

Cheers and applause greeted the historic votes made possible by the continued Stormont impasse.