24th April 2018
33 of the EU’s 50 dirtiest cities are in Poland.
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Modern Catholic exorcisms can be carried out by reciting Latin prayers over a cellphone.
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A new suicide pod enabling people to kill themselves at the touch of a button without assistance has drawn crowds at a funeral exhibition in Amsterdam.
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A Brooklyn postman has admitted hoarding 17,000 pieces of mail in his house and car for 13 years so he could ‘concentrate on delivering the important ones’.
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The number of new drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration per billion dollars spent on R&D has halved roughly every nine years since 1950.
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An Algerian woman has been denied French citizenship for refusing to shake hands with male officials during the naturalisation ceremony in Grenoble.