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Title, not invincible tag, the most important goal for Salah
Title, not invincible tag, the most important goal for Salah
Mourinho says no quick fixes for Spurs in transfer window
Mourinho says no quick fixes for Spurs in transfer window
Brighton spoil Chelsea's New Year party as Villa secure vital win
Brighton spoil Chelsea's New Year party as Villa secure vital win
Arteta rocked as Chelsea sink Arsenal with late fightback
Arteta rocked as Chelsea sink Arsenal with late fightback
Pogba hailed as 'best midfielder in the world' by Solskjaer
Pogba hailed as 'best midfielder in the world' by Solskjaer
Three things we learned from the Premier League
Three things we learned from the Premier League
Kane relishing chance to learn from new Spurs boss Mourinho
Kane relishing chance to learn from new Spurs boss Mourinho
Vertonghen hails Mourinho 'fighting mentality' after Spurs late show
Vertonghen hails Mourinho 'fighting mentality' after Spurs late show
Mourinho makes instant impact as Spurs beat West Ham
Mourinho makes instant impact as Spurs beat West Ham
‘Special one’ Mourinho named Spurs boss after Pochettino sacking
‘Special one’ Mourinho named Spurs boss after Pochettino sacking
Education
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Brazil's education minister mocked for Twitter spelling error
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Nicolas Whitehead: "Zerah Business School is the best place to get a modern business education in the EU"
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Zerah Business School presented a new master's program
On December 22, Zerah Business School presented a new master's program in Malta. Since January 1, 2020, this business school has been permitted to train studentsRead More...
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Europeans are not born, they are made, President of the Center for European Democracy Studies Peter Davidson says
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EU medicines agency loses Brexit court case on London lease
The European Medicines Agency, which is moving from Britain to Amsterdam because of Brexit, on Wednesday lost a court battle to cancel the lease on its LondonRead More... -
Darwin's 'strangest animal ever' finds a family
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Bear bone discovery re-writes human history in Ireland
Analysis of a bear bone found in an Irish cave has provided evidence of human existence in Ireland 2,500 years earlier than previously thought, academics announced Sunday. For decades, the earliest...Read More... -
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'Moment of crisis' has come on climate change: Attenborough
The world is facing the "moment of crisis" on climate change and cannot delay action any longer, British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough warned in an16 January 2020Read More... -
Meghan could face estranged father in court over leaked letter: media
Prince Harry's wife Meghan could face her father in court over the publication of a letter she wrote to him, British media said Wednesday, as she made a public15 January 2020Read More... -
Prince Harry's wife Meghan returns to Canada amid royal storm
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Tesco halts Christmas card factory after China inmate message
Supermarket giant Tesco said Sunday it has stopped production at a factory in China after one of its Christmas cards was found to contain a cry for help from a prisoner who made it.22 December 2019Read More...
Culture
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John Lennon's round glasses sell for nearly $200,000
A pair of John Lennon's sunglasses The Beatles legend once left behind in the back seat of a car sold Friday for nearly $200,000 at an auction in London.Read More... -
First glimpse of latest Bond film goes online
Car chases, machine gun fire and love interest: fans of James Bond on Wednesday got their first taste of the upcoming film featuring the fictional British superspy, "No Time To Die".Read More... -
Bottega Veneta big winner at Fashion Awards in London
Bottega Veneta and its young artistic director Daniel Lee were the big winners at the 2019 Fashion Awards on Monday, taking four awards in a star-studded ceremony at the Royal Albert HallRead More... -
Coldplay axes tour plans over pollution fears
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said on Thursday the band had shelved plans to go on tour to promote their latest album over concerns about the environmental impact of concerts.Read More... -
Britain's art world turns its back on oil cash
Oil companies are becoming increasingly unfashionable partners for British cultural institutions, as they ditch corporate sponsorship under pressure from artists and environmentalists.Read More... -
Licensed to thrill: Bond author's steamy letters go on sale
Sexually-charged letters between James Bond creator Ian Fleming and his wife Ann were put up for auction on Tuesday, part of a collection of correspondence that also charts the successRead More... -
London pupils shine through Steve McQueen's new artwork
Sitting alongside their teachers, their faces full of hope, mischief and occasional boredom, thousands of London schoolchildren have been immortalised in a new work by British artist SteveRead More... -
UK Oscar-winning special effects firm mulls London IPO
British special effects firm DNEG, winner of five Oscars for work on blockbusters including "Blade Runner 2049" and "Inception", said Tuesday that it planned launching on theRead More... -
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo joint winners of Booker Prize
Judges tore up the rule book on Monday, awarding the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction jointly to Canadian author Margaret Atwood for "The Testaments" and Anglo-NigerianRead More... -
Real-life politics blurs lines with satire: 'Veep' creator
British satirist Armando Iannucci didn't have to look too far for an example to prove his point about the surreal nature of modern-day politics.Read More... -
Nettles with regal roots hit the London catwalks
Fashion models wearing dresses made from nettles harvested at Prince Charles's country estate in southwest England will feature at London Fashion Week on Tuesday, in oneRead More... -
London Fashion Week opens under Brexit cloud
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London selfie shop lets Instagram generation strike a pose
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Education
Brazil's education minister has been ridiculed on social media for making a spelling mistake on Twitter.
Hong Kong's teachers say they are living in fear as the city's democracy protests rumble on, with some not daring to discuss the movement and others anxious they
New learning processes are improving fast. Online education, which seemed fantastic 5-10 years ago, is becoming a common thing. Thanks to it, we can get training
Education is becoming an increasingly crucial component of contemporary European life. New skills and higher qualifications become necessary elements of the
On December 22, Zerah Business School presented a new master's program in Malta. Since January 1, 2020, this business school has been permitted to train students
Q: We met at the European Conference of Iranian Studies in Berlin, a reputable and high-profile event. Please tell us about your Center for European Democracy
The European Medicines Agency, which is moving from Britain to Amsterdam because of Brexit, on Wednesday lost a court battle to cancel the lease on its London
Charles Darwin, Mr. Evolution himself, didn't know what to make of the fossils he saw in Patagonia so he sent them to his friend, the renowned paleontologist Richard Owen.
Owen was stumped too. Little wonder.
"The bones looked different from anything he knew," said Michael Hofreiter, senior author of a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications that finally situates in the tree of life what Darwin called the "strangest animal ever discovered".
"Imagine a camel without a hump, with feet like a slender rhino, and a head shaped like a saiga antelope," Hofreiter, a professor at the University of Potsdam, told AFP.
Macrauchenia patachonica -- literally, "long-necked llama" -- also had a long rubbery snout and with its nostrils high on the skull just above its eyes.
Analysis of a bear bone found in an Irish cave has provided evidence of human existence in Ireland 2,500 years earlier than previously thought, academics announced Sunday.
For decades, the earliest evidence of human life in Ireland dated from 8,000 BC.
But radiocarbon dating of a bear's knee bone indicated it had been butchered by a human in about 10,500 BC -- some 12,500 years ago and far earlier than the previous date.
"This find adds a new chapter to the human history of Ireland," said Marion Dowd, an archaeologist at the Institute of Technology Sligo who made the discovery along with Ruth Carden, a research associate with the National Museum of Ireland.
The knee bone, which is marked by cuts from a sharp tool, was one of thousands of bones first found in 1903 in a cave in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland.
It was stored in the National Museum of Ireland since the 1920s, until Carden and Dowd re-examined it and applied for funding to have it radiocarbon dated -- a technique developed in the 1940s -- by Queen's University Belfast.
The team sent a second sample to the University of Oxford to double-check the result. Both tests indicated the bear had been cut up by a human about 12,500 years ago.
The new date means there was human activity in Ireland in the Stone Age or Palaeolithic period, whereas previously, scientists only had evidence of humans in Ireland in the later Mesolithic period.
"Archaeologists have been searching for the Irish Palaeolithic since the 19th century, and now, finally, the first piece of the jigsaw has been revealed," Dowd said.
Three experts further confirmed that the cut marks on the bone had been made when the bone was fresh, confirming they dated from the same time as the bone.
The results were revealed in a paper published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.
As well as pushing back the date of human history in Ireland, the find may have important implications for zoology, as scientists have not previously considered that humans could have influenced extinctions of species in Ireland so long ago.
"From a zoological point of view, this is very exciting," Carden said. "This paper should generate a lot of discussion within the zoological research world and it's time to start thinking outside the box? or even dismantling it entirely!"
The National Museum of Ireland noted that approximately two million more specimens are held in its collections and could reveal more secrets.
In a milestone for artificial intelligence, a computer has beaten a human champion at a strategy game that requires "intuition" rather than brute processing power to prevail, its makers said Wednesday.
Dubbed AlphaGo, the system honed its own skills through a process of trial and error, playing millions of games against itself until it was battle-ready, and surprised even its creators with its prowess.
"AlphaGo won five-nil, and it was stronger than perhaps we were expecting," said Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, a British artificial intelligence (AI) company.
A computer defeating a professional human player at the 3,000-year-old Chinese board game known as Go, was thought to be about a decade off.
The clean-sweep victory over three-time European Go champion Fan Hui "signifies a major step forward in one of the great challenges in the development of artificial intelligence -- that of game-playing," the British Go Association said in a statement.
The two-player game is described as perhaps the most complex ever designed, with more configurations possible than there are atoms in the Universe, Hassabis says.
Players take turns placing stones on a board, trying to surround and capture the opponent's stones, with the aim of controlling more than 50 percent of the board.
There are hundreds of places where a player can place the first stone, black or white, with hundreds of ways in which the opponent can respond to each of these moves and hundreds of possible responses to each of those in turn.
"But as simple as the rules are, Go is a game of profound complexity. There are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible positions," Hassabis explained in a blog.
Such a search base is "too enormous and too vast for brute force approaches to have any chance," added his colleague David Silver, who co-authored the paper in the science journal Nature.