With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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PETER FROST hopes he and you may never be too grown-up to search the skies on Christmas Eve
Three Wise Men from the East. Part of the mosaic on the left wall of the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare-Nuovo. Ravenna, Italy
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In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
TWINKLE, twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are. Christmas is always a good time to look out for stars, or perhaps even unidentified flying objects like reindeer sleighs in the sky.
The Bible tells us three kings, magi or wise men followed the Star of Bethlehem to Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago where they found newborn baby Jesus taking part in his school nativity play.
Believe the story or not, we can still use science to work out what that Star of Bethlehem might have been.
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