Daily Diamond - Amazon's 3D Printed Products Store: Create Your Own Bobblehead!

Who hasn’t wished they could create their own bobblehead – maybe even a little army of them? And now you can!
 Amazon launched its very own 3D Printed Products online store on Monday, which gives customers a chance to design a whole range of products, from their own games and......
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Daily Diamond - Adoption Register Opened Up for Approved Adopters

The Adoption Register is an online secure database in the UK containing the details of all of the 6,000-plus children awaiting adoption. Internal software matches up potential adopters and children, cross-referencing information, before social workers consider the match in more detail.
But with......
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Daily Diamond - Bungling Burglar Caught Escaping WWE Wrestlers' Home

It is pretty unlucky for a burglar to get caught in the act when fleeing the scene of a crime, but maybe even more so when the home they are leaving happens to belong to not one, but two professional wrestlers with the WWE.
Bryan and Brianna Danielson, better known by their stage names of Daniel......
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Daily Diamond - Medical Students Replace Cadavers with 3D-Printed Body Parts

A grim but necessary part of learning about the human anatomy as a medical student is dissecting cadavers. You might be surprised to find out then that there is, unfortunately, a shortage of this vital training tool all over the world, be it for religious or monetary reasons, or people......
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Daily Diamond - Amazing Video Showing What Lifeguards Actually Do

We might have an idea of the work that lifeguards do, but do any of us actually know? They might be trained, but every time they go out there to save someone’s life, they are risking their own – and many of them are volunteering their services so aren’t even getting paid for doing......
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Daily Diamond - Restaurant Owner Pays Staff Out of His Own Pocket After Fire Closes Shop for 6 Months

In November last year, Bruce Kroll’s restaurant in Wisconsin in the US burnt down, leaving his 40 employees temporarily out of a job while the building was rebuilt, and wondering how they were going to get by in that time.
He had owned Culver’s Restaurant in Platteville for 19 years and......
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Daily Diamond - UK Progression Towards Three-Person IVF

In a controversial step forward, a technique to create babies from the sperm and eggs of three people – which could lead to the prevention of some of the major childhood diseases – has progressed in the UK.
According to the Department of Health, the three-person IVF (invitro......
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Daily Diamond - Cancer Drug Brings HIV Out of Hiding to Help Treat, Maybe Cure

At the beginning of the year, we told you that this could be the year for a cure for HIV, and there have certainly been some promising stories about the progress being made in that department. And here comes another from the University of Aarhaus in Denmark.
One of the many problems with......
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Daily Diamond - Will We Soon Be Communicating with Our Household Appliances?

According to a computer sciences expert from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, household appliances that are able to communicate with us may only be a few years away.
Dr Kevin Curran said that in only five years, your fridge could be texting you that you are running low on milk, or......
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Daily Diamond - Long-Awaited 'Fight Club' Sequel Set to Hit Shelves Next Year

Chuck Palahniuk, author of Choke, Survivor and Invisible Monsters, to name but a few, has confirmed his long-awaited sequel to award-winning novel Fight Club will be published by this time next year.
It has been a long 18 years since Fight Club was originally published, but unlike the original,......
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Daily Diamond - Music Education Funding Boost: Double Victory for Campaigners

Campaigners for music education can claim a double victory this week. Not only has the government backed out of its recommendation that music hubs be solely responsible for funding music ed, but the subject is also going to get a huge boost in funding.
The Department for Education (DfE) made the......
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Daily Diamond - Free Guidance Given in Pension Reforms: "It's Not My Money, It's Your Money"

Recent plans to revolutionise pensions have been revised, with the government saying that savers will be able to receive free, independent and impartial advice when given unrestricted access to their pensions from April 2015, meaning they will be able to use their own pension in the manner they......
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Daily Diamond - The Heart's Possible "Grow-Your-Own" Pacemaker

After groundbreaking experiments, US scientists have been able to encourage the heart to grow its own pacemaker by converting cells inside of it, and the treatment could be hitting human trials within three years. The findings have been published in Science Translational Medicine.
Pacemakers......
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Daily Diamond - Mysterious Stranger May Have Just Saved This Woman's Life

Stephanie Headley, 48, has been struggling with systemic scleroderma for more than a decade. It is an autoimmune disease that causes the body to produce too much collagen, which then hardens the skin, blood vessels and vital organs, eventually leading to the heart to fail.
Stephanie, a single......
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Daily Diamond - Future Increased Investment for Cyclists on the Road?

Ask any driver what their biggest peeve about being on the road is and many will simply say, “cyclists.” Similarly, cyclists complain of aggressive driving from those in cars, speed limits not being enforced properly and junctions that haven’t been brought up-to-date with modern times. In......
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Daily Diamond - Name that Tune: New Software Can Identify Bird from its Birdsong

Ever listened to a song you didn’t know and wanted to know who the artist was, or what the song was called? Well, there’s an app for that. Much along those same lines, software has now been developed that can differentiate between the birdsongs of different birds, and has been published in......
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Daily Diamond - The Footballing Stars Donating to Help Others

We always seem to be hearing about how footballers make too much money, and that it never seems to go to a worthwhile cause. Well, here are just a few examples of soccer stars giving away some of their fortune to help those in greater need.
We’ll start off with someone you might be surprised......
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Daily Diamond - Bowie's Triumphant Return? That's a Promise...

The music legend that is Mr David Bowie has hinted at his second album in as many years – after a ten-year break it seems the Rebel Rebel is back in business.
Releasing an album last year, The Next Day, showed that the 67-year-old rocker hasn’t lost ‘it’, giving him the coveted......
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Daily Diamond - English National Parks to Get Better Mobile Phone Coverage

England’s National Parks are places of great peace and beauty, but for the modern person there is nothing more frustrating than the lack of mobile phone signal bound to be experienced in these places. And while mobile broadband has become the norm for urban folk, the people who live and work......
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Daily Diamond - Remote-Controlled Birth Control: The Future of Contraception?

Contraception: a necessity in most people’s lives at one point or another. But often, finding the right birth control for you can be a tricky and arduous task, and if you decide that you want to try for a baby, many of the contraceptives currently on offer require you to make an appointment......
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Daily Diamond - Sotheby's and eBay Deal for Online Art Auctions

International art auction house meets international online auction website: Sotheby’s and eBay are coming together to create a new way of allowing people from all over the world to buy and bid on Sotheby’s art.
EBay has almost 150 million users, 40% of which access the site through mobile......
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Daily Diamond - Rising Above Hate: Girl Poses with Graffiti about Herself

Carleigh O’Connell, from New Jersey in the US, is only 14 years old, but she has done something that many women twice her age would never have the confidence to do – risen above hate and posed for a photograph with a graffiti scrawl that someone had written about her.
When speaking to......
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Daily Diamond - Church of England Votes in Women Bishops

After a historic and overwhelming vote, women will be able to become Church of England Bishops for the very first time, breaking the almost 2,000-year-old tradition of only men permitted to take the role.
Women were first allowed to become priests in 1992 – more than twenty years ago......
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Daily Diamond - New Wonga Chairperson to "Reinvent Business Model"

Wonga is the UK’s biggest payday lender, offering customers small, short-term loans at high interest rates on the agreement that said customer repays back some or all of the loan on their next payday.
The company has been in the news a lot recently, but for all of the wrong reasons –......
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Daily Diamond - Same Genes Affect Maths and Reading Abilities

New research from University College London, King’s College London and Oxford University – and published in Nature Communications – suggests that the same genes drive both maths and reading ability.
Previous research has found that a child’s exam performance is impacted by both......
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Daily Diamond - Germany are Victorious at World Cup Finals

After reaching the semi-finals for the last two competitions, Germany have finally been crowned champions of the world as a goal from Mario Götze in extra time defeated Argentina in the World Cup final 2014.
It is the fourth time that Germany have managed to get their hands on the trophy,......
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Daily Diamond - Accurate Leukaemia Prognosis Test Developed

Scientists from Cardiff University have developed an unparalleled new test, funded by charities Cancer Research UK and Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, that can accurately predict the prognosis of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). They have published their findings in the......
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Daily Diamond - Fossils Found 30 Years Ago Identified as Largest Ever Flying Bird

Back in 1983, US construction workers were digging the foundations for a new terminal for Charleston International Airport in South Carolina, when they discovered some fossilised remains. After 31 years, scientists have finally been able to identify these fossils as belonging to a new species of......
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Daily Diamond - Spying on Polar Bears and Other Arctic Species with Satellites

Tracking animals in some of the more extreme parts of the world, such as the Arctic or Antarctica, is notoriously difficult because of the remote inaccessibility of the regions. Although this has been somewhat overcome with aerial surveys, these are very expensive to carry out, and often don’t......
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Daily Diamond - The Crying Elephant: Raju's First Taste of Freedom

An elephant who was held in abusive captivity for 50 years, cried tears of relief as he was being released during a daring rescue mission last week – on Independence Day, no less. Some of the details in this story may be distressing for some readers, but we promise you that there’s a......
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Daily Diamond - ASU's Extra Credit for Defying Society's Body Hair Norms

Have you ever thought about challenging society’s views of body hair – as a female by not removing leg or underarm hair, or as a male, by shaving it all off? Perhaps you have your own set of ideals in which you believe a woman’s skin should not be “marred” by hair, or that a man......
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Daily Diamond - Amazing Coffee Shop Run on Honour System

There is a café located in Valley City, North Dakota, that is unusual, to say the least – but in the best possible way.
This café, known as The Vault, works on an honour system, which means that its service is based on trust, honour and honesty. No members of staff grace the counters of......
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Daily Diamond - Cricket Scheme Keeps Youngsters Away from Gangs and Crime

New research on participants of a scheme called StreetChance, carried out on behalf of charity New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), suggests that playing cricket – and other team sports – can help deter young people from committing crimes and joining gangs.
StreetChance is a programme set......
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Daily Diamond - Translating the Chimpanzee Dictionary

Have you ever looked at your dog’s wagging tail and wondered what it was so happy about? Or listened to the plaintive “meow” of your cat and desperately tried to work out what it wanted? We might be one step closer to finding out…
For almost thirty years, researchers have known that......
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Daily Diamond - Tiny, Blood-Clotting Balls Could Prove Life-Saving

Did you know that around two million people die each year, worldwide, from massive blood loss after a road traffic accident or other serious accidents? The leading cause of death on the battlefield is uncontrolled bleeding after being hit by an explosion, making up around 79% of the mortality......
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Daily Diamond - £6 Billion Government Funding for Regions Across England

In a bid to boost local economies and to rebalance the country’s “London-focused” economy, the government is allocating billions of pounds worth of funding to regions across England.
The funding is part of a series of what the government is calling “Growth Deals”, with two installments......
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Daily Diamond - Primary School PE to Get Extra Funding

This September, 120 specialists in physical education (PE) will be taking to primary schools across England to start work, in order to get school children properly involved with the subject, encouraging healthier lives for them in the future.
A pilot training programme that was launched last......
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Daily Diamond - Bruno Mars Meets Inspirational Girl Who Used His Music to Recover from Coma

Last March, a young girl from Ohio called Zumyah Thorpe was in a car with her older sister Zulaikah, two younger sisters and pregnant mother, when a pickup truck being driven by a drunk driver collided with them. Tragically, Zulaikah and Zumyah were the only survivors in their car.
Zumyah, only......
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Daily Diamond - Microchip Enables Paralysed Man to Move Hand for First Time in Years

A microchip implanted in a quadriplegic man’s brain has enabled him to move his hand for the first time in four years.
At the age of 19, Ian Burkhart from Ohio in the US was an outgoing and sporty student before a diving accident left him paralysed from the chest down and unable to move his......
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Daily Diamond - Missing for 60 Years: Class Ring Found at Bottom of Lake, Returned Home

When she was 24, Addie Elizabeth Little was picnicking by Lake Nasworthy in West Texas in the US with the man who would one day become her husband, the pair wading in the cool water and generally having a lovely time.
When she returned home, she realised that the class ring she had received the......
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Daily Diamond - Number of Online-News Users Catch Up to Newspapers

According to media watchdog Ofcom, the number of people who are taking to the screen to get their daily dose of news has caught up with – and slightly overtaken – those who prefer reading a traditional printed newspaper.
Every year Ofcom commissions their News Consumption survey for......
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Daily Diamond - Rare Butterfly Species Reintroduced, Another Helped Out by Cattle

In February, we told you how last year’s great summer led to butterfly populations flourishing across the country. Now there has been news of a couple of projects to help boost the numbers of two failing species in Northern England.
Large Heath Butterfly populations were once widespread,......
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Daily Diamond - Monty Python's Big (and Final) Return to the Stage

The Great British comedy act that is Monty Python is taking to the stage again – but, alas, this will be for the final time.
Monty Python first came into being in 1969, a comedy group specialising in the surreal. Despite the obviously advanced age of its members now, the group is still......
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Daily Diamond - British Manufacturing Sector Booms & Pound Gets a Boost

Not only has the British pound hit its highest rates against the US dollar in almost six years, a new PMI survey suggests that in June, the manufacturing sector in the UK had grown at its fastest rate in seven months.
At the time of writing, the pound had risen to $1.7168 and continuing to rise,......
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Daily Diamond - Preserved Medieval Villages to Receive Protection

Some of the best preserved medieval villages in England have been designated as scheduled monuments by English Heritage, meaning that they are now considered nationally important in archaeological terms, and have the same legal protection as some of the oldest historic sites in the country.
The......
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Daily Diamond - Dominic's Wish: Paying it Forward

When he was just two years old, Dominic Kerr from Pennsylvania in the US was diagnosed with leukaemia. Two years on, the now four-year-old Dominic has been offered a wish from the Make-a-Wish Foundation, but instead of using it for himself, he pays it forward.
You may remember our story about......
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Daily Diamond - Phoenix Towers: The World's Next Tallest Tower?

China can already boast the world’s longest bridge (Jiaozhou Bay bridge, 26.4 miles) and the world’s largest dam (Three Gorges Dam), but now it could be adding “the world’s tallest building” to their list of accomplishments.
Two buildings have been designed by UK-based architectural......
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