Tetris video game 'fixes lazy eye'
Canadian doctors say they have found an inventive way to treat lazy eye - playing the video game Tetris.
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Nurses 'warned off' whistle-blowing
Many nurses face bullying and being belittled when they try to whistle-blow, a survey suggests.
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New campaign urges killer robots ban
A pre-emptive ban is needed to halt the production of weapons capable of attacking targets without any human intervention, a new campaign says.
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New leader to 'put Paraguay first'
Paraguay's President-elect Horacio Cartes, one of his nation's wealthiest men, says he would "never put personal interests before the country's".
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Kaufmann wins best male opera award
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is named best male singer at the inaugural International Opera awards.
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Thatcher's funeral: View from above
How photographer used vantage point at Lady Thatcher's funeral
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Remembering the King of Soho
Steve Coogan on his role as London porn baron Paul Raymond
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EU 'must not dictate railway plans'
MPs raise concerns over European Union plans to standardise railways, saying governments should be allowed to set their own transport programmes.
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VIDEO: Gay laws challenged in Singapore
As France's lower house of parliament prepares to give its final view on a bill to legalise gay marriage, Mariko Oi reports on attitudes to homosexuality in Singapore, where there is is still a law against sex between men.
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US knives-on-planes policy delayed
The US transport safety authority delays a proposal to allow some small pocket knives aboard US flights for the first time since the 9/11 attacks.
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PM 'proud to be British and English'
David Cameron says he is "proud" to be English as he marks St George's Day, but also proud to be a part of the UK's "family of nations".
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Defending Shakespeare from doubters
Can Shakespeare's identity ever be confirmed?
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Data spies hunt industrial secrets
State-sponsored industrial espionage became a bigger cyber-threat to companies in 2012, reveals a report into data breaches.
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Search powers to target knife crime
Police officers are to use stop and search powers to target people who carry knives, Scotland's chief constable says.
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Mackintosh clocks tick to time again
A unique system of clocks designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1910 is to be reinstated in Glasgow School of Art.
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Rural risk for sleep disorder
People in rural areas of Scotland are at risk of a common sleep disorder but may be going undiagnosed due to a lack of services, finds new research.
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VIDEO: Happy goats: How animal rehab works
Testing goats' moods suggests animal sanctuaries work
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Ill head leaves SATs pupils stranded
The government is urged by an MP to help pupils in Berkshire who cannot take their SATs tests because their head teacher has been ill.
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VIDEO: 'More than 100 people' killed in Syria
British Foreign Secretary William Hague says he is "appalled" by reports that more than 100 people were killed by Syrian government forces in a suburb of the capital, Damascus.
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In pictures: WWII re-enactments
Vivid WWII re-enactments caught on camera
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