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A two-year clinical trial in the West African country of Burkina Faso showed that the number of cases of clinical malaria was cut by 12 per cent using the new bed net

In the early hours of Thursday, August 9th, Argentina’s Senate narrowly voted down a bill to legalise elective abortion. Senators debated for more than 15 hours before voting 38 to 31, with two abstentions and one absentee, not to allow abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. Women’s rights activists had been optimistic that the passing of the bill in the lower Congress in June was a sign that times were changing in the majority Catholic county. So this...

Iain Martin, a Times columnist, took to Twitter to defend to Boris Johnson's recent comments about the Burka. The reactions to his tweet didn't go well. He battled on replying to his detractors for while, but eventually gave up, as it was relentless. Many reasons to dislike the burka, but disrespect of the deaf (who often need to see faces to follow communication) always high on the list — Iain Martin (@iainmartin1) August 8, 2018 Here is a selection of...

The former PM has bought the luxury cabin on wheels for the garden of his Cornish bolthole

Straight-A pupil Anam Ahemdi, 16, took time out of her Summer holidays to urge the ex-Foreign Secretary to apologise for "letter box" remarks

Dr Ellie Holman was arrested in Dubai and thrown into a "baking hot and foul smelling" detention centre after an eight-hour flight with four-year-old Bibi - because a disgruntled immigration official took issue with her visa.

Sandra Dow, tenant and manager at the Spey Lounge, in Leith, Edinburgh received the order following legal action by Sky.

The family of the nine-year-old girl described her as the 'light of our lives'

This June, in light of lack of public trust after the Grenfell disaster, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, James Brokenshire promised that a green paper on social housing would be published before the parliamentary recess. Its failure to appear, despite a worsening housing crisis and the fact that the Labour party published its own review of social housing back in April, has led to widespread anger across the housing sector. A freedom of information request...