Daily Diamond - MLK Jr and Wife Awarded Congressional Gold Medal for Second Time

The US is celebrating 50 years of  The Civil Rights Act on July 2 this year, with leaders of Congress commemorating the event by giving the Congressional Gold Medal to the late Martin Luther King Jr and his wife Coretta for the second time.
The Civil Rights Act was a landmark piece of......
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Daily Diamond - Primary School Performance Key to Better GCSE Results

According to a new government study, not only are disadvantaged schoolchildren in London achieving better GCSE results than in any other region of England, it could all be down to boosts in primary schools ten years ago.
The study found that, in inner London, more than half of pupils eligible......
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Daily Diamond - Scottish Hospital Has Fastest Times for Life-Saving Heart Op

A hospital in Scotland has been praised by Health Secretary Alex Neil for having the fastest times in the whole of the UK for carrying out a heart operation that could be potentially life-saving.
Statistics collected by the National Cardiac Benchmarking Collaborative have shown that staff at the......
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Daily Diamond - X-ray Signal from a Distant Galaxy - A Sign of Dark Matter?

Dark matter is a form of matter that does not emit or absorb light (meaning it is invisible), and exerts gravitational force but does not collide with atomic particles. While dark matter is thought to make up about 85% of our Universe, it is basically hypothetical – it is so hard to prove......
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Daily Diamond - Kangaroo Cup: A Young Girl's Brilliant Invention for Her Grandfather

A few years ago, a young girl in the US saw that her grandfather had trouble drinking from an ordinary cup without spilling it and wanted to do something for him to make his life a little easier.
Lily Born’s grandfather has Parkinson’s disease, a progressive condition of which the main......
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Daily Diamond - Solving a Century-Old Murder Mystery

A murder mystery that has plagued the New York Police Department for more than 100 years may now have been solved by police in Sicily.
Here is a little backstory…
Lieutenant Joe Petrosino first arrived in the US as an illegal immigrant, but instead of going down the path of organised crime as......
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Daily Diamond - Canadian Schools Become Truly Inclusive with Gender-Neutral Policies

The Vancouver School Board (VSB) in Canada has extended its policy that says that a student should be able to enjoy a safe learning environment no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation. Now, some students can opt to be known by gender-neutral pronouns, as opposed to the traditional......
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Daily Diamond - Cave of Prehistoric Art Becomes World Heritage Site

In the south of France is a cave that has recently been given World Heritage status by Unesco – but this is no ordinary cave.

The Decorated Cave of Pont-d’Arc, also known as Grotte Chauvet or the “prehistoric Sistine Chapel”, has walls covered with more than a thousand images;......
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Daily Diamond - US Action Plan to Save Honeybees

Pollination is needed to fertilise plants and produce seeds, and more than a quarter of our food comes from plants that have been pollinated – nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables.
All of this is done with the help of pollinators, such as bees, some butterflies, and even certain kinds of......
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Daily Diamond - Doddle Deal: Amazon's Plans for Click-and-Collect

Amazon, the online retail giant, has struck a deal with a new click-and-collect venture called Doddle, set up by Network Rail and Lloyd Dorfman, an entrepreneur best known for creating foreign exchange company Travelex.
Amazon started off in 1994 as an online bookstore and has become the......
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Daily Diamond - Self-Repairing Teeth Could Put End to Dentist Drill Fears

Much to the relief of dentophobes around the world, a new idea is being developed at King’s College London which could put an end to the dentist’s drill, painful injections, and teeth filled with fillings.
Firstly, though, what causes tooth decay? Well, it’s when the bacteria that normally......
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Daily Diamond - Harley Davidson's First Electric Motorcycle

Founded in 1903, Harley-Davidson certainly knows a thing or two about building the ultimate bike, and now the motorcycle legend has revealed its first electric two-wheeled vehicle.
Project LiveWire, as the electric bike is known, isn’t going out on general sale just yet (in fact, it probably......
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Daily Diamond - Pupils from Poorer Families to Get More Grammar School Places?

Government ministers are urging grammar schools to accept more pupils from poorer families, so that more children get the chance to benefit from the best education possible for them.
At the moment, more than half of all grammar schools in the UK follow the government rules that allow the schools......
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Daily Diamond - Walking to the World Cup

Four football fans from England gave themselves a mission: to walk 1,966 km (1,221 miles) over three months to watch their idols play at the World Cup in Brazil.
Adam Burns, Ben Olson, David Bewick, and Pete Johnston designed the distance to honour England’s one and only victory at a World Cup......
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Daily Diamond - Super Bananas Could Save Children in Africa

Super bananas developed in Australia could improve and save the lives of millions of people across Africa.
Vitamin A, or retinol as it can otherwise be known, is vital for strengthening the immune system, helping vision and keeping skin and linings of parts of the body, like the nose, healthy.......
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Daily Diamond - England's Tribute to Rik Mayall

After the devastating news of comedic actor Rik Mayall’s sudden death on June 9, fans have pulled together to pay tribute to the wonderful man. A football song he recorded for the last World Cup, in 2010 – which failed to make it into the charts the first time around – has been......
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Daily Diamond - Queen's Birthday Honours: A Big 'Thumbs Up'

The Birthday Honours are given out every year as part of the Queen’s official birthday celebrations. This year there were more than 1,000 names on the list, some of whom you won’t have heard of, some you will have, and others that will make you grin because you couldn’t have......
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Daily Diamond - A Father and Son's Mission to Space

A father and son team from Inverness in Scotland have managed to successfully carry out their own space mission.
Barry Fraser, 38, and his 12-year-old eldest son Cameron wanted to see if they could create something that could be sent into orbit and record a video of what was up there. They......
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Daily Diamond - Surprise Causes of Poor Sleep and What it Does to Your Body

A UK study from researchers at the University of Surrey last year showed that not getting enough sleep could dramatically affect parts of the human body, but it has recently come to light that our quality of sleep could be affected by pets sleeping in our beds with us, and our relationship with......
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Daily Diamond - The Library Hermit

Most of us will be able to remember that feeling of impending doom and panic as we realise that possibly the most important exams of our lives are just around the corner, AND WE ARE JUST NOT READY YET…
One student from the University of Birmingham took the concept of last-minute studying......
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Daily Diamond - Forced Marriage Law Comes into Effect

A law has now come into effect in England and Wales, which makes forcing people into marriage a criminal offence, and punishable with a prison sentence.
Although courts have been able to issue forced marriage protection orders since 2008 – a civil order that prevents a person from having......
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Daily Diamond - UPDATE: Schumacher Out of Coma

Almost three months ago we told you about Formula One racing legend Michael Schumacher lying in a coma in Grenoble Hospital in France following a skiing accident in December. At the time, we were reporting on the encouraging signs that he had been demonstrating that had given his family a chance......
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Daily Diamond - GSK and Adaptimmune Cancer Research Collaboration

In what some people might consider a surprising turn of events, global pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will be collaborating with biotech company Adaptimmune, which specialises in experimental cancer treatments.
The reason that this might come as a surprise is because it was......
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Daily Diamond - National Park Saved From Oil Exploration

Oil exploration by a UK-based company has come to a stop in Virunga National Park, the oldest park of its kind in Africa.
The 3,000-square-mile park (7,800 square kilometres) is located in eastern DR Congo (the Democratic Republic of Congo); it was founded in 1925 by Belgium’s King Albert I,......
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Daily Diamond - Bodyguard Blankets: The New Way to Keep School Children Safe

When our children are sent to school, they should be entering a safe environment. Sadly, events like school shootings, or natural disasters obliterating school buildings, cause worry for parents up and down the US, as well as other parts of the world.
Now ProTecht, a company in Oklahoma, has......
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Daily Diamond - Better Blood Pressure Treatment Saves Thousands of Lives

Doctors from Imperial College London have published research in The Lancet that suggests improved diagnosis and treatment for high blood pressure, or hypertension as it is otherwise known, has saved thousands of lives – maybe even hundreds of thousands – in England over the past......
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Daily Diamond - Amazing Young Boy Gets Long Awaited Visit From His Hero

An inspirational young man got the most wonderful surprise of his life when his hero showed up at a fundraising event he was running.
Ten-year-old Mario Carpino from New Jersey in the US was diagnosed with four inoperable brain tumours when he was only four years old. Although his tumours have......
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Daily Diamond - Blind Mole Rat Genome Gives Cancer-Resistance Insight

Last year, a study was published revealing that the naked mole rat is resistant to cancer, but it is not the only creature dwelling underground that is. It has been found that the blind mole rat – a distant cousin of the naked mole rat and actually more closely related to the common house......
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Daily Diamond - Better CVs Get Better Jobs - So Here's 20 Top Tips to Boost Yours

We often hear about how university graduates find it difficult to get themselves into work after they have left uni, but did you know that around 87% of the Britain’s biggest employers have vacancies waiting to be filled, but haven’t hired anyone because of the poor quality of CVs?
A study......
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Daily Diamond - Secrets of a Hidden, Underground Room

A house in Middletown, Pennsylvania in the US holds a secret – perhaps many – but those secrets might be seeing the light of day for the first time in, well, ever.
The house was being demolished and the job was very nearly complete when the crew found an underground wall. According......
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Daily Diamond - Tired of Lugging Around Luggage? This Might be the Answer...

After a long flight (or before one, for that matter), the last thing you want to do is drag your heavy suitcase all the way through the airport, let alone all the way home. Well now, someone in China has come up with a cunning solution – a suitcase-scooter, or ‘City Cab’ as the creator......
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Daily Diamond - Battle of the Sexes: Who Really Feels More Physical Pain?

Despite what some women might say about how a man would endure through childbirth, it is not something that the male body has evolved to cope with, and so leads to the age old question: who has the higher pain threshold, man or woman?
After monitoring around 10,200 male and female patients after......
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Daily Diamond - Struggling Pub Landlords to Get Governmental Help

According to British Beer and Pub Association statistics, there were almost 50,000 pubs in the UK in 2012, but this number has been falling steadily for the last two decades at least – in 1982 there were around 67,000 of the drinking establishments.
More than half of public houses......
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Daily Diamond - New School Campaign Against Homophobia

A new teaching campaign has been launched with the aim of tackling abuse surrounding homophobia and transphobia in schools, including a resource pack with lesson plans and discussion points.
Nazir Afzal, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)‘s Chief Prosecutor for Northwest England, is......
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Daily Diamond - Health Professionals Sign Pro-E-Cig Letter to WHO

We recently told you how the number of e-cigarette users is on the rise, with people using them to help cut down on their smoking, or kick the habit altogether. But supposedly a document has been leaked which suggests that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is looking to put the devices in the......
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Daily Diamond - Ukraine's Plate-Smashing, Stress-Relief Event

Ever had one of those days, when you wish you could just grab a plate or mug and throw it as hard as you can against the wall, or on the ground? Well, lucky people in the Ukraine’s city of Dnipropetrovsk were able to do just that in a mass stress-relieving event in the street.
Plate smashing......
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Daily Diamond - Meet the New Class of Planet: Mega-Earth

Back in 2011, a new planet was discovered about 560 light years away. More information has now been unveiled about this planet that has led scientists to create a new class just for this planet – and any in the future that might fall into this category.
There is already a term that......
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Daily Diamond - And the UK's Favourite Children's Book is...

Stop and take a minute to think about your favourite book from childhood – maybe you like the classics: The Wind in the Willows, The Secret Garden, Peter Pan? Perhaps you favour a particular author, like Jacqueline Wilson, Terry Pratchett or J K Rowling? You may be surprised to find out......
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Daily Diamond - Mobile Companies Advised to Unlock Phones

We have all been there: trying to find the mobile phone we want on the network we want for the best deal. But we often end up sacrificing one or another as these aspects because the phones are locked to a particular network. This means that is a Sim card from another network is put into the......
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Daily Diamond - Slow the Ageing of Your Brain: Learn a Second Language!

Are you able to speak another language? Maybe you have thought about learning but dismissed the idea? A new study carried out by researchers from the University of Edinburgh now suggests that becoming bilingual (speaking two languages) has a positive, age-slowing effect on the brain – and......
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Daily Diamond - Italy's Mission to Save and Welcome Migrants

Last October, Italy launched a mission in which some of their ships travel the Mediterranean Sea, along the coasts of North African countries. The aim of this mission is for the crews aboard each ship to find and help people trying to make their own way to Italy, desperately fleeing their......
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Daily Diamond - Boy Saves Grandfather's Life with GTA Skills

Imagine yourself in the passenger seat of a car, happily driving along at 70 mph or 113 kph, when suddenly, the driver blacks out at the wheel. Now, add to that image that you are only 11 years old – what do you do?
If you’re Charley Cullen from County Meath in Ireland, you use the......
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Daily Diamond - Leicester Uni's Unique Exam-Stress Relief

Students from the University of Leicester are being given some unique opportunities to wind down from the stresses of exam revision, along with some of the more traditional methods on offer.
The idea is to alleviate some of these pressures, as well as providing mental health support for the......
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Daily Diamond - Generous Person Stashes Cash for Real Life Treasure Hunt

People in California in the US are enjoying a real life treasure hunt, thanks to an anonymous millionaire on Twitter.
The story gained momentum when the person – who goes under the handle ‘@HiddenCash’ – contacted The Bold Italic, an “online magazine, shop, and events hub in......
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Daily Diamond - Ancient Teenage Remains Give Insight into American Origins

There are a few theories as to how the Americas came to be populated, the favourite of which leans towards the idea that the first Americans and modern Native Americans share common ancestry.
The reason this is only a theory is because although the genetics of modern Native Americans would......
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Daily Diamond - Lost 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Drafts to be Published!

Douglas Adams may have died more than a decade ago, but that doesn’t mean that we cannot be delighted with some of his never-before-read works, as already shown to us with The Salmon of Doubt. And now, an alternate version to Life, the Universe and Everything has come to light –......
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Daily Diamond - Company Brings AI Member onto Board of Directors

Hearing that a company in China has brought Artificial Intelligence, or AI, onto their board of directors is likely to bring to mind images of people sat around a table discussing business with a robot, or at the very least, a computer.
We’re not quite there yet, but for the first time (in......
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