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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