Topic: Durham University
The remains of nine adults and children from the Roman era and the early middle ages are being reinterred.. . The skeletons and cremations were...
World's top 100 universities: Cambridge University has moved into first place. Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA . Harvard today forfeits first place to...
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Faced with a life-threatening situation, would you leave behind a loved one to save yourself?This question fascinated British writer and journalist Nigel Farndale for about 25 years, ever since he heard of an acquaintance who had
A court jailed a British antiques dealer for eight years Monday for smuggling a stolen William Shakespeare manuscript to the United States and trying to sell it to pay for his playboy lifestyle.Raymond Scott, 53 -- described by the judge as a ...
LONDON/OSLO (Reuters) - Iceland's erupting volcano has spewed plenty of ash but far less greenhouse gas than Europe's grounded aircraft would have generated.Carbon dioxide emissions totaled 150,000 tonnes a day in the early days of the eruption, according
<div id="subtitle">Series of deadly earthquakes rattle nerves, but scientists say they're a coincidenceExperts say there is nothing unusual about the latest spate of earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and now Turkey, but their devastating effects illustrat
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Knowledge of the Bible is in decline in Britain, with fewer than one in 20 people able to name all Ten Commandments and youngsters viewing the Christian holy book as "old fashioned," a survey said on Sunday.Forty percent ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A small fish found in streams across Europe has a human-like ability to learn, British scientists reported Wednesday.The nine-spined stickleback could be the first animal to exhibit a key human social learning strategy that allows it to
Police in England re-arrest suspect in stolen Shakespeare First Folio caseThe curious case of a stolen First Folio of Shakespeare's plays took a new twist Thursday when police in northeast England re-arrested the prime suspect for more questioning.Police
The UK's brightest 14-year-olds are less clever than a generation ago, while their classmates of average intellect are more able, a study shows.Michael Shayer, professor of applied psychology at King's College, University of London, tested the ability of
