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Calderdale a hike in Yorkshire’s Happy Valley

Calderdale: a hike in Yorkshire’s Happy Valley

Come spring, chances are there’ll be driving tours in fake panda cars along the A646 between Halifax and Todmorden, with overnight stays in dodgy-looking farmhouses. Happy Valley has done for Calderdale what Peaky Blinders did for Birmingham, and dark telly tourism is all about ticking off locations and looking the part (though I’m not sure...

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Quarter of global population used site daily in December

Quarter of global population used site daily in December

The number of people using Facebook daily grew to an average of two billion in December – about a quarter of the world’s population. The bigger-than-expected growth helped drive new optimism about the company, which has been under pressure as its costs rise and advertising sales slump. Shares in parent company Meta surged more than...

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The images that reveal male fears

The images that reveal male fears

Three new exhibitions explore how the femme fatale in art reflects evolving anxieties writes Cath Pound.  The figure of the femme fatale is one of the defining literary and artistic motifs of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Artists were drawn to historical archetypes of female seduction such as Cleopatra or Lucrezia Borgia, characters from...

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Missing radioactive capsule found in Australia

Missing radioactive capsule found in Australia

Authorities in Western Australia say they have found a tiny radioactive capsule that went missing last month. Emergency services had “literally found the needle in the haystack”, they said. A huge search was triggered when the object was lost while being transported along a 1,400km (870 miles) route across the state.  Authorities released a close-up...

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The Secret Behind Babbel Our Language Learning Approach Is Built On 3 Pillars

The Secret Behind Babbel: Our Language Learning Approach Is Built On 3 Pillars

Berlin is an international city where you’ll hear snippets of conversations in dozens of different languages on a daily. This is one reason why it’s the perfect city for Babbel’s headquarters — we are 600 language enthusiasts piling into one five-story building in the heart of Berlin. Babbel has employees from over 60 countries, speaking more...

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The song that changed the US

The song that changed the US

With Happy Birthday, Stevie Wonder successfully campaigned to honor Martin Luther King Jr with a national holiday, in a long career of socially conscious songwriting, writes Diane Bernard. On 15 January 1981, music legends Diana Ross and Gladys Knight, along with the “godfather of rap”, Gil Scott-Heron, joined renowned musician Stevie Wonder on stage at...