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This week, the long-running saga of who owns the “monkey selfie” finally reached a settlement. David Slater had entered into a legal dispute over the rights to the image, with Wikipedia and then People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) claiming it belonged to Naruto, the crested black macaque who had taken Slater’s camera and shot the picture himself.

How much do you really need to say to put a sentence together?

Inspirational teachers of the future will be intelligent machines rather than humans, the influential head of one of Britain's most famous public schools predicts. Within 10 years a technological revolution will sweep aside old notions of education and change the world forever, Sir Anthony Sheldon, master of Wellington College believes.

Last month I received my A-Level results. It was a moment of exhalation for thousands like me with futures anchored to a handful of letters on a page. Thankfully I secured my first choice place, however many of my peers did not, or failed to gain a place at all. I can’t begin to imagine the panic and disorientation this must have caused given the perception of education seems tethered to the rubric of the employment ladder.

It’s never too late to learn – if you go about it in the right way.

Don't believe everything you read — and other lessons for kids growing up with a 24/7 news cycle

Research shows that repats often experience more intense culture shock returning home than that which they initially experienced when they moved abroad.

Adults who believe they don’t stereotype boys and girls are put to the test.

The chaos of the Illuminati myth did indeed travel far and wide – Wilson and another Playboy writer wrote The Illuminatus! Trilogy which attributed the ‘cover-ups’ of our times – such as who shot John F Kennedy – to the Illuminati. The books became such a surprise cult success that they were made into a stage play in Liverpool, launching the careers of British actors Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent.

Britain would have likely voted to remain in the European Union were its population educated to a slightly higher level, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Leicester say that had just 3 per cent more of the population gone to university, the UK would probably not be leaving the EU. The researchers looked at reasons why people voted Leave and found that whether someone had been to university or accessed other higher education was the “predominant factor” in how they voted.

Monopoly's inventor, Elizabeth Magie, would have sent herself straight to jail if she’d lived to see just how influential today’s twisted version of her game turned out to be.

Travelling by plane has become an everyday activity – but our bodies and brains are still affected by it.

Their hormones mean they still need zzz’s even when they’re already supposed to be in homeroom

‘Men have harder jobs, so they earn more.” “Men are better at being in charge.” “Men are cleverer because they can be President.” These feminist-baitin

Last month I received my A-Level results. It was a moment of exhalation for thousands like me with futures anchored to a handful of letters on a page. Thankfully I secured my first choice place, however many of my peers did not, or failed to gain a place at all. I can’t begin to imagine the panic and disorientation this must have caused given the perception of education seems tethered to the rubric of the employment ladder.

Respecting the referendum result means passing all this off as just normal. It is not normal.

The iGen — born around 1995 — are spending less time hanging with friends and more time on their phones

From bringing flowers to challenging haters, people are pushing back after the day of terror.

The ultimate guide to the end of the world

less about freeing citizens from the imposition of foreign law, and more about freeing big business from the constraints of social and environmental regulation

Google sacked engineer James Damore after he wrote a memo saying the gender gap could be explained by biology. Social and cultural factors are likelier culprits, writes Angela Saini.

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.