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Immigration, Ukraine and Trump: key takeaways from Republican debate

Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley clashed over the course of a two-hour debate which once again the former president skipped The Republican debates have been anticlimactic since they started late last summer, with the broad pool of candidates winnowing over time and frontrunner Donald Trump refusing to attend.

Matrix by Lauren Groff review a brilliant nuns tale

Visionary leader, queer lover, 12th-century writer the life of Marie de France is triumphantly reimagined in an assertively modern novel about female ambition and creativity The author of Fates and Furies has been much acclaimed, especially in the US, for sharp yet exuberant writing about contemporary marriage, parenthood, sexual rivalry and the threats that

Maverick the 2,560lb pumpkin triumphs in Super Bowl of gourd fests | Pumpkin

Rhinoceros-size Minnesota native wins big in California and will compete once more before being retired to stud Growers from across the country descended on the California coast carrying with them some of the worlds most gargantuan pumpkins.

Readers recommend: songs about monkeys and apes results

Monkey songs are often those with a swinging sense of fun gibberish, even if your recommendations over the last week are anything to go by. Take Gino Washington's soul stomper Come Monkey With Me, a stream of dancefloor-filling gibberish, laced with the innuendo of the title. What could be better? Well, it must

Weatherwatch: orographic rain and the seeder-feeder process

Precipitation generated or enhanced by air that rises as it interacts with terrain is called orographic Precipitation is described as orographic when it is generated or enhanced by air that rises as it interacts with terrain. This interaction can act to increase precipitation amounts (for example, locally increased precipitation in the mountains of south Wales