Daily Diamond - Gamblers To Set Own Limits on Gaming Machines

In a global first, people playing on high-stakes betting terminals in England and Wales will be able to set their own time and money limits.
Until now, gamblers have been able to bet £100 ($170) every 20 seconds on gaming machines with fixed odds. With the introduction of a new code designed by......
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Daily Diamond - The Oldest Fragment of Earth

Back in 2001, some tiny crystals were found in some sandstone in the Jack Hills, in Western Australia. These crystals were thought to be very old – ancient even – but it was worried that they were so old the dating method they would use wouldn’t be accurate.
To find out how old the......
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Daily Diamond - The Mystery of the Saddle Ridge Hoard

Have you ever been meandering along and suddenly stumbled upon buried treasure? Probably not, but it is certainly the dream – a dream that has come true for one couple from California in the US.
Last spring, a couple wishing to remain nameless (possibly due to US treasure trove laws) were......
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Daily Diamond - Samsung Adds Biometrics to Latest Phone

In an announcement made at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung have shown its latest baby off to the world – the Galaxy S5. Amongst the smartphone’s other improved features, excited chatter is mainly about the introduction of biometric security.
Biometric security is the......
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Daily Diamond - Susie Wolff: First Female Driver in F1 for 22 Years

Although Formula One does not prohibit female drivers from entering into its races, it is generally considered a male dominated sport – and not without reason. Despite being around for almost 70 years and women being involved in most aspects of Formula One, there have only ever been two......
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Daily Diamond - UK Storms Reveal Ancient Forests

Thousands of years ago, there stood vast forests just off the British coastline, and for the first time in over 40 years, they have reemerged – if only briefly.
The heavy winds and rains of recent storms in the UK have shifted mass amounts of sand and small pebbles, known as shingle, in......
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Daily Diamond - Chemical Lights Up Blind Eyes

A chemical has been developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley that can restore a blind eye’s ability to sense light, and have published their results in the journal Neuron.
The eye is made up of three different layers, each with different responsibilities. One......
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Daily Diamond - "Nurture Units" Opening in Irish Schools

Almost 500 children in Northern Ireland, who could benefit from a little extra help in school, can find themselves using some new facilities called ‘Nurture Units’. The project is being funded into 20 primary schools as part of NI’s Delivering Social Change programme, in a joint venture by......
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Daily Diamond - Butterfly Abundance After Great Summer

Take a moment to forget the abysmal winter for a moment, and imagine yourself back to last summer, one of the hottest and sunniest summers in the UK since records began. Humans are not the only creature to look forward to a lovely summer, and last year’s sunshine proved great for the......
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Daily Diamond - Dramatic Decrease in Scots' Drink-Related Death

The rest of the UK has mocked the Scottish for years with jokes about excessive drinking, but according to the latest ONS (Office for National Statistics) report, alcohol-related deaths have made the made significant drop north of the border, compared to anywhere else in Britain.
According to......
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Daily Diamond - Lie Detector For The Internet Rumour Mill

Your favourite celebrity has died, your favourite food gives you cancer, and your favourite colour is going to be made obsolete. These things are all most likely untrue, and yet you might have seen then pop up on your Twitter of Facebook feeds. Sometimes it is obvious which posts have been made......
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Daily Diamond - South African Church Make the Switch to Faux Fur

Followers of age-old traditions are notoriously set in their ways, for it is their religious belief that certain things cannot be changed. But one church in South Africa is proving that change is not inherently evil.
Members of the Nazareth Baptist Church, often referred to as the “Shembe......
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Daily Diamond - Streamed Music To Be Counted in UK Charts

Can you remember the last time you went into a music shop and physically bought a single on CD? Nowadays it all seems to be about downloading and streaming the music we want to listen to, all made easier by the likes of iTunes, YouTube and Spotify, and various other services.
The Official Charts......
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Daily Diamond - Rise in Female Students Studying STEM Subjects

Science, technology, engineering and maths. These subjects, collectively known as “STEM” subjects, and have long been misrepresented as being subjects for boys. For some time now there has also been concern that there has been a gross gender imbalance in these subjects. New research is now......
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Daily Diamond - Farmfoods Becomes Fastest Growing Grocer, Beating Supermarkets

During the downturn of the UK’s economy, consumers turned their attention to value for money when shopping, trying to find the elusive combination of cheap-cheap prices and product quality, but favouring the former over the latter. Particularly when it came to food, frozen goods were what the......
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Daily Diamond - Belgium Approves Euthanasia For Terminally Ill Children

After a vote in Parliament, Belgium has become the first country to pass a bill allowing terminally ill children of any age to receive euthanasia. The bill was voted in favour by 86 votes to 44, with 12 abstaining from voting.
The amendment to the law still needs to be signed by the king, but it......
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Daily Diamond - Boy Impaled On Metal Spike Lives To Tell The Tale

There isn’t anything unusual about a young boy climbing a tree. There even isn’t anything unusual about a boy falling out a tree. But what is unusual is for a boy to fall out of a tree and impale himself on a metal spike on the way down – and then live to tell the tale!
This is exactly......
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Daily Diamond - Fossil Provides Evolutionary Link to Head-First Childbirth

Paleontologists in China have found a rare fossil that is the missing jigsaw piece in knowing how marine reptiles evolved to give birth to live young, and have published their findings in the journal PLoS One.
The fossil shows the skeleton of a Chaohusaurus that looks to have died during labour,......
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Daily Diamond - Declaration Against Wildlife Trade Signed

Government officials from around the world have signed a declaration at the London Conference on The Illegal Wildlife Trade on Thursday, vowing to take action against the heinous activities that are wiping out some of the most amazing, but declining, animals on our planet.
Representatives from......
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Daily Diamond - Quitting Smoking: Better For Your Mental Health

Did you know that around 1.1 billion people smoke, about a third of the adult population of the world? Although tobacco was once considered “brown gold”, the smoking of it is now thought to be one of the leading causes of death in the world, and there has been much debate over the benefits......
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Daily Diamond - Scientists Discover Intelligence Link to Grey Matter

Scientists have long been trying to see if there is a genetic link to intelligence, to find out if there is a specific explanation as to why some people are smarter than others. Above all, if they could find the link it could lead to some solutions to the unanswered questions about learning......
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Daily Diamond - Queen Become First UK Act to Sell 6M Copies

Not content with just being at the top of the list of best-selling albums in the UK’s chart history, Queen have managed to make rock history once again by being the first act to have six million sales of one album, their first Greatest Hits (and that number has probably gone up even more in......
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Daily Diamond - Smoking Ban in Cars With Children

In 2007, it was made illegal to talk on your mobile phone when driving because of the dangers and risks of an accident. Now, though a different form of danger, Parliament has voted on whether or not there should be a ban on smoking in a car when a child is present, in England and Wales.
After an......
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Daily Diamond - UK Economy and Business Optimism Up

According to various studies, surveys and polls: The UK’s economy is getting better! Not only is the economy expected to grow by 2.5% this year and 2.1% next year, but business optimism is also at a 22-year high.
According to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, or NIESR,......
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Daily Diamond - Step Closer to Diabetes Cure

Scientists from California in the US say they think they are a huge step closer towards a cure for Type 1 diabetes, managing to change normal skin cells into insulin-producing pancreatic cells.
Out of the two types of diabetes, Type 1 is the rarest and affects around 400,000 people in the UK,......
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Daily Diamond - Dyson Invests in Robot Lab

Vacuum cleaner giant, Dyson, is going to invest £5 million in a robotics lab at London’s Imperial College, hoping to lead to the breakthrough of the ultimate affordable housework robot.
Founder of the company, Sir James Dyson, said that his generation assumed the world would be “overrun......
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Daily Diamond - Funding Boost For Welsh Schools

The latest Programme for International Student Assessment, known as PISA tests, suggest that Wales’ schools don’t do as well as the rest of the schools in the UK. So, in an attempt to raise performance in Welsh schools, £20 million a year is being pumped ‘Schools Challenge Cymru’. The......
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Daily Diamond - DNA Clues to Mammoth Extinction

Woolly mammoths were the last in line of the mammoth species, and although many people have heard about them (particularly thanks to the film Ice Age), no one knows what caused them to become extinct – though everyone has a theory.
New research from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark,......
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Daily Diamond - Schizophrenia: Therapy Could Help When Drugs Don't

Schizophrenia is a very common mental health condition in the UK, affecting around one person out of 100 at some point in their life. Symptoms can include hallucinations and delusions, muddled thoughts based on both of those, paranoia, as well as many others.
Usually schizophrenia is treated......
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Daily Diamond - Sherlock Visits Sesame Street

Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world’s most famous detective, has made a grand appearance on children’s puppet television show Sesame Street.
Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the the renowned sleuth in the hit BBC television series Sherlock and who also recently became Empire magazine’s......
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Daily Diamond - First Ever "Feeling" Bionic Hand

Bionic body parts have been the stuff of sci-fi movies for generations, but now, thanks to scientists and robotics experts in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, it is a much closer reality than we think. They have managed to create a revolutionary robotic hand that allows the user to be able to......
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Daily Diamond - Scotland Legalises Same-Sex Marriage

After a historic vote in Scottish Parliament at Holyrood on Tuesday, Scotland has now become the 17th country to vote in favour of a new bill, allowing same-sex couples to wed legally.
The bill was brought forward by the SNP after a consultation, when the government asks for the public’s input......
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Daily Diamond - NHS Improves, According to Health Secretary

The Francis Inquiry was a report published on 6 February 2013 that identified around 290 recommendations for issues and “failings” at a Stafford Hospital, and at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust between 2005 and 2009. The report primarily called for better standards in hospital......
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Daily Diamond - Poverty Kids Not Doomed For Failure

If you ask some education experts, some children are already at a disadvantage at school before they have even started, just because they come from families in poverty. These experts suggest that because the parents didn’t do very well at school, or they come from underprivileged area that......
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Daily Diamond - Anonymous Woman Tips $15,000

Tipping waiters and waitresses isn’t something that people in the UK think about very much, but it’s a big deal in America. Over the weekend, three waitresses who work in a restaurant, in Illinois in the US, were given a tip totalling $15,000 (just over £9,000).
On a normal Saturday......
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Daily Diamond - ".ninja" and Hundreds of Other New Domains Go Live

You are going to register your new company’s website when, imagine your surprise, instead of ending it with the boring old “.com” or “.co.uk”, your website could be called “yourwebsite.ninja”. Yes, .ninja.
This morning, more than 100 new generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs,......
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Daily Diamond - Real Life Castaway Washes Up After Year Adrift

In a tale reminiscent of The Life of Pi and Tom Hanks’ Castaway, a man washed up on the remote atolls of the Marshall Islands on Thursday morning, claiming to have survived on fish, birds and turtle blood after being adrift for more than a year.
The man, who has identified himself as Josè......
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Daily Diamond - Records Broken as Premier League Transfer Window Closes

With mere hours remaining until transfer deadline on Friday, the £700 million barrier of spending in the Premier League for the 2013/14 season was broken. When the January transfer window closed for another year, overall spending by all 20 clubs in the top English football league stood at an......
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Daily Diamond - The Secret of the Flying Snakes

Although you might not have been aware, some snakes can fly. No, they do not have secret flaps with wings hidden away, and they look like ordinary snakes, so there are no limbs to be found. Up until now, it wasn’t quite known how the creatures managed it, what with being the wrong shape and......
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Daily Diamond - Latin America and Caribbean Declared "Zone of Peace"

On Wednesday, the final day of a two-day summit of Latin American (middle and South America) and the Caribbean, the region declared itself a “zone of peace”, denouncing the use of violence and arms to resolve conflicts between each other, pledging to resolve any differences they might have......
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