Daily Diamond - Mass Wedding Takes Place at Grammys

Award ceremonies are often talked about after the fact because of surprise winners, or a funny incident, but the Grammy Awards on Sunday night really did steal the show. More than 30 couples – straight and same-sex – got hitched in front of millions of viewers, live at the ceremony,......
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Daily Diamond - Cracking Nature Inspires Stronger Glass

Engineers from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, turned to nature to give them ideas as to how to make glass stronger, that doesn’t just shatter when hit or dropped, and published their paper in the journal Nature Communications.
Mollusc shells, fingernails, bones – these are all......
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Daily Diamond - Obama's "Year of Action" Against Inequality

The US did not have the greatest 2013, with proposals that had the potential for greatness – such as the Affordable Healthcare Act – suffering from enough hiccups that the greatness (for those who believed in it) was tarnished. President Barack Obama needs something good to get......
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Daily Diamond - UK to Take in "Most Vulnerable" Syrian Refugees

Some of the most affected victims from the Syrian civil war will be able to come to the UK seeking refuge, in a deal agreed last night. Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister, has said that those most traumatised by the conflict will be resettled temporarily in the UK.
The civil war in Syria has been......
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Daily Diamond - UK to Take in "Most Vulnerable" Syrian Refugees

Some of the most affected victims from the Syrian civil war will be able to come to the UK seeking refuge, in a deal agreed last night. Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister, has said that those most traumatised by the conflict will be resettled temporarily in the UK.
The civil war in Syria has been......
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Daily Diamond - Magnets Used on Curved Spines

Scoliosis, or a curved spine, doesn’t seriously affect many children – one in 40 in the UK, with 90% of those cases correcting themselves – but those that it does need to go through wearing a back brace and multiple operations, with the overall experience damaging a child’s self......
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Daily Diamond - Buckingham Palace to Open When Queen is Absent?

Throughout the year, more than 50,000 guests are invited to Buckingham Palace for various Royal events, and about half a million people pay for guided tours. Compared to the Tower of London, which boasts over 2 million visitors each year, Buckingham Palace could easily accommodate more visitors.......
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Daily Diamond - Memory-Making Filmed Inside a Brain

Scientists at the Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine have been able to film memories being made inside a mouse’s brain and have posted the video online.
The complete research  has been described in two papers, both published in the journal Science, and explains how......
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Daily Diamond - Boost to Secondary School Performance

The Department of Education has released the latest GCSE league tables, showing that English secondary schools are performing the best they have in at least three years.
The league tables shows qualification and vocational results for more than 4,000 schools, both state and independent, and out......
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Daily Diamond - Super-Rare Nintendo Game Goes to Auction

Old-school game enthusiasts of the world must have been rubbing their hands together with glee – especially hard-core collectors with a bit of money. For the first time since 2011, a super-rare NES game (Nintendo Entertainment System for those not in the know) has been put up for auction......
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Daily Diamond - Dudley the Ducks Gets Bionic Leg

Dudley was just an ordinary duck, born on the 19 August 2013, that had been rescued and was being cared for by the K9-1-1 Animal and Rescue Services in British Columbia in Canada. Ducks and chickens normally have no problem being housed together, so Dudley and his brother were placed in an......
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Daily Diamond - Small Businesses to Get a Boost

The preconception is that if you are a small business owner, the bank is not likely to want to give you a loan, so more than 60% thinking of applying for a loan don’t even bother. But the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) says the banks are far more likely to accept a loan application from......
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Daily Diamond - Beat Diabetes and Heart Disease With Chocolate and Wine

Approximately 371 million people have diabetes worldwide, with around 90% of these cases being Type 2. In the UK alone, almost three million people are affected by Type 2, which is when the body suffers from insulin resistance – the body doesn’t perform properly because it doesn’t......
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Daily Diamond - Exciting New Treatment Could See Relief for Migraine Sufferers

Migraines affect 15% of the British adult population, with a quarter of women and one in 12 men suffering. Some types of migraine can be prevented, or at least have some of the symptoms lessened, using various medications, or even acupuncture. However, sometimes these methods simply do not do......
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Daily Diamond - Could Your Window Become Your Television?

Scientists from MIT and Harvard University in the US have managed to develop transparent plastic screens that can be attached to glass, potentially turning a window into a display for moving images, like a TV. And although this sounds as though it could be both very expensive and very......
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Daily Diamond - Holidays on a Budget: Hostels a Cheaper Alternative

It’s January, and if you look out of your window, you will probably find that it’s dark and gloomy, and some people are thinking about booking their summer holidays. However, with Christmas and New Year just gone, many people are feeling the pinch, especially families. Maybe 2014 is the year......
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Daily Diamond - Mysterious Rock Appears in Front of Mars' Rover

Although life on Mars has yet to be proven, even though Curiosity did find some pretty decent evidence that Mars once sported liquid water flowing on its surface, the Red Planet has managed to toss an interesting conundrum to Nasa scientists.
An area of rocky land, which had been empty just a......
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Daily Diamond - British Barristers Come Together to Dispute Cuts to Legal Aid

For the first time since they took a place on the bench in the late 13th century, barristers across England and Wales took a half-day off work to come together and stage strikes in protest to government cuts to legal aid.
Demonstrations outside courthouses up and down the country were joined by......
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Daily Diamond - All About Wine

Wine is one of the most popular alcoholic drinks around the world, and this article will be explaining a little about the differences between and origins of this beloved beverage.
So, to begin with, there are basically four main types of wine: red, white, rosè and champagne, with the first two......
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Daily Diamond - Teacher Quality Becomes Priority

Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt says that raising the standards of teaching, and not just creating a new school structure, is the way to raise the standards of our children’s learning.
At the moment, unqualified teachers are able to teach in academies and free schools, but Mr Hunt......
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Daily Diamond - First Evidence of Bat Migration From UK to Europe

The UK is home to around 18 species of bat, and makes up almost a quarter of all mammals, but there is still so much mystery surrounding these creatures of the night.
Now, experts have indicated that they could have the first evidence that bats migrate across the North Sea, from the UK to......
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Daily Diamond - Europe: Timeless Travel

Known for its history, cultural and beauty, Europe is a must-see for anyone on their travels this year (and for every year after that). But where to begin? Let’s take a look at some of Europe’s most popular countries and what they have to offer, to give you a place to start.
Starting with......
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Daily Diamond - All Scottish Infants to Receive Free School Meals

In a move the matches one announced in England last September, all Scottish infants will be entitled to free school meals. Regardless of how much money parents are earning, all Scottish children between the ages of 4 and 7 will be entitled to a cooked lunch in school for free.
The announcement......
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Daily Diamond - Pump Provides Relief for Liver Disease

Every year the NHS spends nearly £2 billion treating liver disease, with recent studies showing that around 50,000 people were admitted to hospital last year in England. Now a new device could potentially save the NHS millions, and help liver damage patients avoid a transplant.
The device, a......
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Daily Diamond - China Becomes World's Top Trader

At the end of last year, China confirmed their position as the world’s top goods trader for the first time ever, overtaking the US who has held the title for decades.
Beijing released figures on 10 January showing that China’s goods trade has risen to approximately 25 trillion yuan, about......
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Daily Diamond - Consultation to Change Northern Ireland's Abortion Laws

Abortions have been the subject of many a discussion, with arguments against the termination of any pregnancy, and others for the right to have a choice. In most of the UK abortions have been legal on a number of grounds since the Abortion Act 1967, but Northern Ireland have kept strict laws,......
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Daily Diamond - Tennis Ace Cancer Comeback

Ross Hutchins, the Scottish tennis doubles champ and Davis Cup star, has made a dramatic return to his tennis career after recovering from cancer.
At Christmas 2012, Hutchins was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and over six months underwent several gruelling bouts of chemotherapy. In July,......
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Daily Diamond - Could 2014 Be the Year of a Cure for HIV?

The world has been struggling to deal with HIV and AIDS for almost 70 years, and a reliable cure hasn’t been found simply because the disease mutates too quickly. A rollercoaster ride of believing a cure had been reached last year, only to find the two patients had relapsed, may not have been......
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Daily Diamond - First Premier League Footballer Announces He is Gay

There are an estimated 540 football players registered in the Premier League, and around 1.5% of the British population is homosexual, according to ONS (Office of National Statistics). Doing the maths, this means there are around 8 current Premier League footballers who are gay, and not a single......
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Daily Diamond - England's Teen Birth Rate Down 8% in a Year

The UK has had the highest levels of teenage pregnancy in Europe, but the number of pregnant teens has been making a steady decline year after year. In the past 12 months, England’s teen birth rate as a whole has fallen by an astonishing 8.4% – to it’s lowest level in 40 years!
NHS......
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Daily Diamond - South Sudan Peace Talks and Hopeful Ceasefire

On December 15 fighting broke out across South Sudan, the world’s newest country that has only been independent of Sudan since 2011. It is worried that the clashes will lead to an all out civil war, but though the fighting isn’t over yet, peace talks are underway in Ethiopia, and Chia is......
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Daily Diamond - Body Piercings Help Paralysed People Control Wheelchairs

Many people are against body piercing for whatever reason, but US scientists have been working on a way of using tongue studs to help paralysed people move their motorised wheelchairs, making a lot of anti-piercers bite their tongues.
Researchers from the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, the......
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Daily Diamond - Kenya launches railway to boost trade

Late 2013, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the launch of a railway project that could revolutionise transportation in East Africa. The railway is said to be Kenya’s biggest construction project for their half a century of independence, eventually extending all the way to Burundi,......
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Daily Diamond - Return of the Tamagotchi

Back in the 90s, a children’s trend dominated the toy market. The craze was Tamagotchi, and now the little virtual pets are back.
Tamagotchi was a small digital toy on a keyring, where owners would hatch their virtual pet from an egg and raise it to adulthood by pressing the relevant buttons......
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Daily Diamond - Sperm test for infertile men could show if they can father children through IVF

When it comes to infertility, we usually just think about women and their side of things, but in reality just as many men suffer with fertility issues, and suffer through the psychological and emotional turmoil just as much as women when pregnancy and seeing a baby to term just doesn’t......
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Daily Diamond - Three London 'slaves' rescued after 30 years

In a movie-worthy plotline, three women have been rescued from a house in London after being held captive for more than 30 years by a married couple, and forced to be their domestic slaves.
After more than three decades, the women were rescued from their enslavement from what appeared to be an......
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Daily Diamond - London Heathrow opens first E-Cig zone

Back in September, Daily Diamond covered the benefits of electronic cigarettes compared to tobacco products and nicotine patches. E-cigarettes are becoming increasingly popular, and as if to prove this point, Heathrow Airport in London and e-cigarette brand Gamucci are to open the world’s......
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