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Keep Britain Tidy awards six Blue Flags but Avon Beach misses out because of a slip-up.

For more than 200 years, scientists have struggled to pin down the exact strength of gravity — and one physicist spent a decade chasing the answer while keeping his own results hidden from himself. Stephan Schlamminger and his team at NIST painstakingly recreated a landmark French experiment designe...

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Since the US and Israel attacked Iran on 28 February, the UN says it’s verified the execution of at least 32 political prisoners.

Getty Images Without immigrant doctors, one expert quoted in a recent report said, New Zealand’s health system “would be more on our knees than we already are”. According to a survey by the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, over 43% of New Zealand doctors are trained overseas, the highest...

An outbreak in DR Congo has been declared a health emergency, with almost 250 suspected cases reported.

Ministers, mayors, international organisations, urban planners and experts are in Baku, Azerbaijan, to tackle one of the world’s fastest-growing challenges: the global housing crisis, which, according to the United Nations, affects nearly 2.8 billion people worldwide.