Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.

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Stories by much-acclaimed American writer, some just a sentence long, praised for vigilance 'down to the very word'The impossible-to-categorise Lydia Davis, known for the shortest of short stories, has won the Man Booker International prize ahead of fellow American Marilynne Robinson and eight other contenders from around the world.The £60,000 award is for a body of work, and is intended to...

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Seven years after being cancelled, the show has been resurrected by Netflix. But why has it retained such a vast army of fans? Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Cera, Tony Hale and other cast members explain whyNow the story of an amazing TV show, That got cancelled,And the cast and fans who had no choice, But to keep the faith that it would one, day come back, It's ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT.Chances are, you...

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This year's prize has been won by the American author Lydia Davis.

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The theater’s 2013-14 offerings will include 15 productions from seven countries.

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Former Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens has defended his controversial decision to leave the show, saying it was the right thing to do.

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We have to stop state legislators from sneaking creationist and revisionist textbooks into public schoolsLouisiana's legislators are continuing their of the state's public school science classrooms. On 1 May, legislators killed a bill to repeal Louisiana's creationism law, the misnamed Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA).The law allows non-science to be snuck into science classrooms by...

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Vitamin C can kill multidrug-resistant TB in the lab, scientists reveal.

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One of the big-name professional wrestlers of the 1960s and 70s who found fame and celebrity on televisionMick McManus, who has died aged 93, was billed at just 1.68m (5ft 6in) and 79kg (12½ stone), yet he was among the most powerful men in the professional wrestling business in Britain. His strength was not physical, but political, for behind the scenes he was the matchmaker for Dale Martin,...

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A "stocktake" of UK nature suggests 60% of animal and plant species have declined in the past 50 years - and one in 10 could end up disappearing.

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