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A line ofwater bottles that had become a symbol of environmental responsibility has beenremoved from the shelves of Canada’s leading outdoor gear retailerover concerns about a chemical used in its man...

The animaldissection requirement of biology classes has been getting under the skin of studentsfor generations, and there have always been some who asked to be excused fromthe requirement. Now, a grow...

Boostedby booming international financial markets, the City of London has not had itso good since the end of the dotcom bonanza in the late 1990s. Basking indouble-digit growth rates, London’s law fir...

Tesco ispreparing a legal battle to clear its name of involvement in the dairyprice-fixing scandal that has cost consumers £270 million. Failure to provethat it had no part in collusion with oth...

He emerged,all of a sudden, in 1957: the most explosive new poetic talent of the Englishpost-war era. Poetry specialised, at that moment, in the wry chronicling of theeveryday. The poetry of Yorkshire...

Controledbleeding or cauterisation? That was the unappealing choice facing UBS, a Swissbank which has been badly hurt by the carnage in America’s mortgage market. The bank optedfor the latter. First i...

Just asNorman Mailer, John Updike and Philip Roth were at various times regarded asthe greatest American novelist since the second world war, John Ashbery andRobert Lowell vied for the title of greate...

The bride andgroom, a guitar-wielding rock vixen and a muscle-rippling dragon-slayer, makean odd couple-so it is hardly surprising that nobody expected their marriage.But on December 2nd the video-gam...

The hauntingpaintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, on show in the final leg of a travelling tourthat has already attracted thousands of visitors in Hamburg and The Hague, maycome as a surprise to many. Few ...

When Catholicclergy or “pro-life“ politicians argue that abortion laws should betightened, they do so in the belief that this will reduce the number ofterminations. Yet the largest global study of abo...