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War on water

Dirty water kills more people each year than violence and war, according to a report by the UN Environment Programme. Clearing the Waters was published on Tuesday to mark world water day. It states that unsafe water leads to 1.7 million deaths worldwide each year – or about 3.1 per cent of all deaths.

Super-size Jesus

Over the past 1000 years, Christ and his disciples have been enjoying an ever bigger Last Supper, an analysis of 52 paintings has shown. Portion size, plate size and bread size have grown respectively by 69, 66 and 23 per cent (International…

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