The Square Kilometre Array – one of the great scientific projects of the 21st Century – will be hosted by both Africa and Australasia.

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Nations to share giant telescope

Historian Dr Lucy Worsley looks through writer Samuel Pepys’ scrapbook from the 17th Century, an early example of popular print culture.

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VIDEO: The original celebrity gossip mag

The British Library raises £9m to buy the 7th Century St Cuthbert Gospel – the earliest surviving intact European book – for the nation.

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British Library buys £9m gospel

As publisher of the secret journal of purged Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang and other political blockbusters, New Century Press has grown accustomed to dealing with bursts of rage from Beijing. But it never expected a fuss over its latest venture: a densely footnoted monograph on political theory by an 83-year-old communist with a heart condition. Read full article > >

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Chinese Communist Party frets over a new threat: A book by an aged communist

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Joel Achenbach: Karen Handel resigns: Deconstructionists needed

How a 15th Century Bible and a 17th Century scientist’s notebooks give a glorious insight into the written word.

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The books that shaped history

This is a moment when policymakers should be thinking big, not small. History will little note nor long remember that the payroll tax holiday was extended for two months rather than 12. The complex and difficult questions we’re avoiding, however, may haunt us through the century. Let me be clear that I applaud President Obama and the Democrats for the political victory they won last week. The impact was to weaken the influence of the most reactionary and clueless faction in Congress — the Tea Party Republicans — and strengthen the hand of both progressives and pragmatic conservatives. This can only be a good thing. Read full article > >

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A brainpower revolution

Engineers say they were “stunned” to unearth a 17th Century cottage, complete with mummified cat, during a construction project in Lancashire.

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NEW YORK — One of the world’s largest Apple stores is opening at the landmark Grand Central Terminal. The 23,000-square-foot personal electronics business will start selling to the public on Friday. The owner of the space, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city’s bus and subway system, says Apple Inc. is paying $180 per square foot for its lease — slightly less than the $200-per-square-foot top rate at the century-old Manhattan train hub. Read full article > >

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Huge Apple store opening at NYC’s Grand Central, likely to draw business to transit hub

BAGHDAD — The boy angled his camera upward and the jumbled world slid into focus. Giant men lumbered under high brick ceilings. They slouched on padded wooden benches, crossing and uncrossing their legs, nearly knocking him over. The boy steadied himself to take photos of the bustling scene at the century-old Shahbandar cafe. Read full article > >

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With camera, Iraqi boy celebrates life

France lays claim to a 17th Century painting currently being displayed by a London gallery at an art fair in Paris.

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France says art from UK ‘stolen’

The Alma radio telescope, one of the 21st Century’s grand scientific undertakings, begins its quest to study the earliest stars.

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‘Highest telescope’ begins quest

How a 17th Century witch-hunt changed trials forever

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Pendle witch child

In the wake of the riots in English cities, law-abiding citizens have been picking up brooms and brushes and joining the clean-up. Is this the 21st Century “Blitz spirit”?

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Is the broom the symbol of resistance?

CHICAGO — FBI agents took box after box of address books, family calendars, artwork and personal letters in their 10-hour raid in September of the century-old house shared by Stephanie Weiner and her husband. The agents seemed keenly interested in Weiner’s home-based business, the Revolutionary Lemonade Stand, which sells silkscreened infant bodysuits and other clothes with socialist slogans, phrases like “Help Wanted: Revolutionaries.” The search was part of a mysterious, ongoing nationwide terrorism investigation with an unusual target: prominent peace activists and politically active labor organizers. Read full article > >

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Activists cry foul over FBI probe