Eleven-year-olds today have wider waists and are taller than their counterparts three decades earlier, a study suggests.

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Children’s waistlines ‘expanding’

Wild cheers erupted from tens of thousands of demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir Square as word spread that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had resigned, relinquishing power after three decades of iron-clad rule. The crowd chanted, “Egypt is free!” Watch now as crowds cheer

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Revolution in Egypt

For three decades, a social worker in Bern, Switzerland allegedly abused 114 children and disabled workers placed under his care. Police say the man, whose name has not been released, preyed on children as young as 1 year old. He was briefly…

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Swiss Social Worker Accused of Abusing 114

These clever and oblique short stories, written over three decades, highlight the breadth and diversity of Joseph McElroy’s vision.

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Topological Fiction

Many readers of Truthout must have heard the story of Binayak Sen by now. The doctor, who has spent nearly three decades serving some of the most destitute of India’s poor, has figured in these columns before. After years of struggle against an oppressive system, he has hit the headlines again. On December 24, 2010, a lower-level court sentenced him to life imprisonment on a charge of “sedition” and “links with Maoists.” read more

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Hyped-Up Charges of Maoism Leveled Against Indian Medical Missionary

Solutions: Making Government Work is a weekly column edited by Dina Rasor, an investigative journalist and author with three decades of experience fighting waste, corruption and fraud. read more

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Solutions: Making Government Work

Mr. Nielsen was a Canadian-born actor who in middle age tossed aside three decades of credibility in dramatic and romantic roles to make a new career as a comic actor.

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Leslie Nielsen, Actor, Dies at 84

The Queen is completing a two-day state visit to Oman, a country she last visited three decades ago.

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Oman’s cavalry display for Queen

The number of crimes recorded in Scotland falls to its lowest level in three decades, according to the latest statistics.

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Scots crime falls to 32-year low

Barely heard of in the UK three decades ago, internships have become must-haves on the CV of any young jobseeker. Why?

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The rise of work experience