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The lost children of Tuam: Ireland’s unquiet dead

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But the dead don’t always stay buried, writes Dan Barry of the scandal of Tuam  for The New York Times....

Did Malta’s dark secrets kill an investigative journalist?

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Malta’s government has offered an “unprecedented” €1m (£890m) reward and full protection for anyone with information on who killed an...

What have we lost, disconneted from the stars?

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For most of human history, the stars told us where we were in space and time. Have we forgotten how...