The Australian Climate Commission warns sea levels could rise by 1m by the end of the century, much more than previously thought.

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Australia climate change ‘real’

Get ready to gleek out: 20th Century Fox TV and the company’s film division will produce a three-dimensional movie version of Glee based on their tour. The studio plans to release the film, GLEE LIVE! 3-D!, directed by Fame’s Kevin Tancharoen, for a…

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Fox Plans 3-D Glee Movie

Don’t tell Jonathan Franzen. The population of the world, rather than stabilizing around nine billion in the middle of the century as previously expected, is now projected by the United Nations to hit 10.1 billion by century’s end. The world population…

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World Population to Hit 10.1B by 2100

The 3-D animated, G-rated feature Rio hit theaters this weekend and grossed a whopping $40 million, making it the biggest opening film in 2011, according to an estimate from 20th Century Fox. The movie follows a domesticated macaw from Minnesota…

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Rio: Year’s Biggest Movie Opening

Today we are urged to report fly-tipping and other nuisances – just as our forebears did 700 years ago. Their complaints survive in a rare 14th Century document, the Assize of Nuisance.

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Anatomy of a 14th Century Asbo

Dennis the Menace is 60 years old. How did this definitive naughty boy make it all the way to the 21st Century?

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Dennis the Menace in the Asbo era

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Dennis the Menace in the Asbo era

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A blaze in the clock tower of 13th Century Blair Castle in Perthshire is tackled by fire crews.

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Fire crews tackle blaze at castle

The lawyer for Liberia’s ex-President Charles Taylor says the prosecution has turned the war crimes trial into a “21st Century form of neo-colonialism”.

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How Phineas Gage’s 19th Century accident changed neuroscience

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Hole in the head

US marine archaeologists find the sunken whaling ship belonging to the captain who inspired Herman Melville’s classic 19th Century novel, Moby Dick.

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‘Moby Dick’ captain’s ship found in Pacific

At issue is whether the Century club in Manhattan should sever ties with an all-male club in London that only allows women to enter in the company of men.

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At a Club for Civil Discussions, Polarizing Debate

Will the global middle class shape the century

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21st century lives

The new owner of Pontins holiday camps says he will give them a touch of “Disney” to bring them into the 21st Century

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Pontins to get ‘Disney’ makeover