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Three babies on the plane
Viktoria Cowley was just a toddler when she was airlifted out of Vietnam, one of 99 children plucked from the war-torn country by the Daily Mail. Now she is trying to reunite the scattered evacuees.

Talking is uniquely human, but how do we speak?
Thriving trade in best-before foods that still taste fine
How does Brown's writing fare against other leaders'?

How did Greggs the baker get to be so huge?
Who can get away with breaking the speed limit?
Can drug-taking be stopped, asks Clive James

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7 questions on expensive means of transport

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10 Things 10 things
French babies cry in a French accent

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