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A new display ban on cigarettes in English shops comes into being. Is that right? (Poll)

From Monday 9 November, British lawmakers have agreed a new display ban on cigarettes in shops and vending machines.

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The Audacity of Nope

No one is willing to sign a serious climate agreement. The Americans can't even given an indication of how much they'll cut. When asked, they say nope – because Congress still has to debate the issue.

Computer models 'overstate species risks' if you ignore the microclimate significant at smaller scales

Some large-scale computer simulations may be overestimating the impact of climate change on biodiversity in some regions, researchers have suggested.

NJ jurors convict Fla. man in 'fat defense' trial

A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man's defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway.

Court upholds removal of man after Nazi salute

A federal appeals court has ruled that Santa Cruz City Council members did not violate a man's rights when they ordered him removed from a council meeting after he made a one-armed Nazi salute.

5-year-old found wandering after teacher's mistake

A Polk County elementary school is reworking its dismissal policy after a teacher accidentally put a child on the bus.

Cops bust moonshiners

Set the clock back 70 years. Polk County Sheriff's deputies say they've busted up a still and arrested two moonshiners.

Are you doing anything in public you shouldn't be - maybe grooming yourself and grossing people out?

These days, if someone seated near me on my morning ride is putting on makeup, someone else is clipping his fingernails (and, on one odd occasion this summer, a toenail). Or they're plucking eyebrows, tying ties, squeezing pimples, even spraying perfume.

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