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Does acupuncture work?
It seems useful for pain. The jury’s out on everything else
Labour faces a drubbing in England’s local elections
The party could lose more than half of the council seats it is defending
Craig Venter raced to decode the human genome
The dark horse of the Human Genome Project died on April 29th, aged 79
Israeli police arrest man after nun attacked in Jerusalem
The French nun was pushed over and kicked in the apparently unprovoked assault, amid a rise in harassment of Christians in the city by Jewish extremists.
Turkish police arrest more than 500 people at May Day rallies
Turkey sees significant police deployments on 1 May each year, when marches led by workers and unions are held.
War criminal Mladic close to death, say lawyers asking judge for jail release
Mladic, 84, was jailed for life for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian war in 1992-95.
Fertiliser, food stamps and fed-up farmers
Our weekly podcast on America. This week, how are rural voters faring under Donald Trump?
Could Santa Marta climate talks mark ground zero in push to ditch fossil fuels?
Colombia hosted nearly 60 countries at pivotal time on world stage for fight to transition to a clean energy futureLooking out to sea from the grey sandy beaches of Santa...
Billions of meals at risk due to Iran war, says fertiliser boss
A shortage of fertiliser due to the Iran conflict could reduce crop yields and push prices higher, says the boss of Yara.
The war in Iran has sent American inflation sharply higher
Our predictive index has reached a sizzling 3.6%
Missing Oscar found after Academy Award winner blocked from taking it on flight
The airline said the Academy Award was safely in its care in Frankfurt and was arranging its return.
The US in Brief: America’s longest shutdown (until the next)
Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter