Air pollution cuts male birth rate, says study
Air pollution decreases the proportion of babies born male, according to a study suggesting that the level of pollution in many cities is high enough to alter the natural...
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How was it for you? The insiders rate the season
The selector David Graveney England's chairman of selectors
Highlight of the season The first morning at Edgbaston after we'd been written off. They got a standing ovati...
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Scotland has second highest murder rate in Europe
Scotland has the second highest murder rate in western Europe and Scots are more than three times more likely to be murdered than people in England and Wales, according t...
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Oil shock is main risk to growth, says rate-setter
The latest recruit to the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, David Walton, said yesterday that higher oil prices and a weaker labour market would dampen consume...
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Rise in death rate increases Dignity profit
Dignity, Britain's largest funeral services company, saw profits rise by nearly a fifth in the first half of this year after more people died than had been expected.
Pre...
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Low death rate among Chinese puzzles Milan
The Chinese have always had a reputation for longevity, but officials have found the Italian dolce vita is making them all but immortal.
Only 26 of the 11,500 Chinese pe...
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To reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
Must a child be skin and bones for us to believe she is at risk?
The children in these photographs sleep, eat and play like any others. They look like our children, just...
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Tories to consider flat tax rate
The Conservative party today held out the possibility of an east European style flat tax, with the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, commissioning an investigation of th...
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Jones 'surprised' by rate of progress
England had not expected to be in a position to topple Australia going into the final Ashes Test before the series began, Geraint Jones said yesterday.
Jones is struck b...
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Rate cut fails to lift property prices
The Nationwide said yesterday the average house price fell 0.2% last month, reversing July's gain and dragging the annual rate of growth down to just 2.3%, the weakest fo...
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