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But new research says that sex surveys, rather than simply reflecting our private lives, actually change the way we behave. A sociologist, Julia Ericksen, studied more than 750 surveys conducted over the past 100 years, and she has concluded that when it...

The bomb attacks in London have been pure acts of terror in that they have been systematic, indiscriminate and intended to communicate a political message. Dreadful though they have been, however, it is important to keep a sense of perspective.It took...

They will work with the UNHCR to identify people who could be brought to Britain.However, Sadako Ogata, the UN High Commissioner, yesterday appealed to Britain to increase its intake of refugees in order to relieve the pressure on Macedonia and Albania,...

With the convoluted reasoning that would be the envy of a Jesuit, she explains that the bell tower is not recognised as consecrated ground under Lutheran doctrine. And technically, the posters will cover not the building, but merely the scaffolding...

Yugoslavia says it has agreed a peace plan with Russia but Nato rejects it, because it discounts a peacekeeping force. Key element is that only unarmed observers under UN auspices would be allowed.Thousands flee Kosovo's second-largest town Prizren, as...

Recent studies suggesting a link between mobile phone use and brain tumours are a sensitive issue among Nokia's top echelon. During an interview, a question on the cancer issue caused a rare loss of cool in the unflappable Mr Alahuhta. After a tense...

The money it raised from selling its consumer publishing interests, including the pounds 850m from selling the Loaded-to-NME magazine business IPC, was spent on two legal businesses, Matthew Bender and Shepards, publishers of legal analysis and case...

Funds that had the nimbleness to spot the problems coming and were able to buy back into the market at attractive prices later did better, but the overall message of last year was that, despite the taming of inflation, risk does still matter in bond...

That means there is a reasonable potential for the yield to be shifting downwards. At the same time, the dividend yields are also reasonable."When Great Portland announced its results last week, its shares were on a 17 per cent discount to its asset value...

But insiders feel the more likely route is a trade sale to a media magnate or one of the motor manufacturers, which are entering the sport directly by acquiring F1 teams.. FREESERVE, the free Internet service provider being demerged by Dixons, is...