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Brexit exposed?

Will the Autumn Statement reveal more about the government’s Brexit plans than about the economy?

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Battle of the barnets

While most pollsters and political pundits said that Hillary Clinton would win the US presidential election, fancy dress shops thought Donald Trump would be victorious.

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Teach yourself

A project in a rural village in India finds out what happens if children are able to teach themselves using a tablet computer without any adult instructions.

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Mandarin lessons

In Kenya Chinese companies are investing heavily in some of the country’s poorest communities, yet as Chinese investment increases, so too do tensions between foreign contractors and local workers.

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Poo power

A look at the firms embracing the circular economy by trying to turn human waste into something useful.

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Sting rocks Bataclan concert hall reopening on anniversary of Paris terror attacks

The British pop legend was greeted with heavy security at the concert hall where a bloodbath occurred a year earlier.

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Analyst who called market’s decline says new highs are coming, thanks to the Trump trade

One of Wall Street’s most accurate forecasters abandons his bearish stance on stocks.

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Warren Buffett on anti-Trump protests: ‘You gotta be behind the president’

The Oracle of Omaha said newly elected Donald Trump “deserves respect.”

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‘Help me understand why my brother blocked me’: Tough election severs online friendships

Election 2016 is over, but the hard feelings — at least on social media — may linger well beyond the closing of the polls.

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Deadly bomb kills dozens at Muslim shrine in southwestern Pakistan

An explosion at a Muslim shrine in southwestern Pakistan killed dozens of people.