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Why do children, especially teenage girls, resort to hitting and threatening their parents?

Why do only some bridges collapse in heavy floods?
Thirty years after 'Grandma', where are they now?
The rise of Belle de Jour is an insight into work and sex

Once it was huge, but what happened to Second Life?
The strange secrets couples keep from each other
Spot Nick Cave's entry in the Bad Sex in Fiction award

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Disturbed school girl Class fear
Is there really such a thing as school phobia?

Milk cartons Cardboard hell
The science of milk carton design and other objects

Graphic of men going up steps Citizen zero
How Britain would change if its borders just closed

Rubber Forgotten heroes
Five British heroes all but forgotten by modern history

Percy Shaw Percy who?
This Briton changed the world. Do you know who he is?

Past winner Sarah Cockings 7 questions
Test your knowledge of Sun headlines

Whisky glass On the rocks
What might Shackleton's whisky taste like?


What makes a truly dreadful railway station?
Why a really, really dark sky is a sight to behold

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Returning to the East after 20 years
An offender describes chemical castration
Comedian Bailey on what makes children laugh

Quote of the Day
In the end I had to see the funny side
Woman who hired her husband-to-be a £250,000 Lamborghini which he then crashed
Web monitor Web Monitor
Professor of Oprah studies on her muse's departure

Your letter Your Letters
How long before there's Rompuy Pompuy punning?

Paper Monitor Paper Monitor
Spurs hit nine. So where does George Orwell fit in?

10 Things 10 things
Hippos kill more people than lions plus other facts

Caption Competition Caption Competition
Men in tights. Your winning entries

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