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Following two weeks spent acclimatising in a special enclosure near Vylkove, a town on the edge of the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta, it was time for four young eagle owls to leave. Though the bi

I magine you’re in Nebraska, standing on North America’s Great Plains, where the broad Platte and Missouri rivers join on their way to the mighty Mississippi. It’s 1804, and in the blistering 36°C hea

Samurai rose to be global emblems of honour and courage, but their story doesn’t always match the myths they told about themselves, as a British Museum exhibition shows

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