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We begin today’s headlines close to home with Al Jazeera America: North California drought threatens farmers, ag workers, cities – and you Driest conditions in 100 years could hit the nation’s food basket hard, affecting half of US...

As developers for tablets and smartphones we like to keep abreast of the latest mobile technology developments . This is a daily digest of mobile development and related technology news gathered from the BBC, the New York Times, New Scientist and the...

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments, including Theresa May’s ‘shared society’ speech and Jeremy Hunt on the NHS May’s speech - Summary and analysis 5.05pm GMT The Department of Health is saying that Jeremy Hunt’s comments about the...

From Ian: Honest Reporting: Dr. Jonathan Spyer Makes Sense of the Middle East With the rise of the so-called Islamic State, multiple groups fighting each other in the disintegrating states of Syria and Iraq, the bitter Sunni-Shia conflict and the competing...

Enough of the ‘new year, new me’ bullshit. Stop blaming 2016 for all of your problems, hoping they’ll all just disappear in 2017. They won’t. You have to make 2017 your year, and no, I don’t mean by suddenly getting rid of all your things claiming to...