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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