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Actress Felicity Huffman leaves federal court after acknowledging she paid $15,000 to arrange for cheating on her daughter’s SAT test. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak
Corrupt admissions scandal taints joy of US college graduations

The picturesque town of New Haven was the location for the latest chapter in the bankruptcy trial of developer Sean Dunne this week. But for most res(...)

Yale University, whose alumni include more than 20 Nobel Prize-winners, is located in the gritty city of New Haven, Connecticut. Photograph: iStock
High-brow Yale tours and low-brow fun in beautiful Connecticut

Our flight destination in the US is to Bradley International. That would make an excellent pub quiz trivia question: in which US state is Bradley Inte(...)

Re-vitalised brains of dead pigs said to be ‘cellularly active’. Photograph: Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty
Is death still the end? Scientists spark life in brains of dead pigs

An experiment has breathed life into the brains of pigs four hours after death. Scientists in the US restored circulation and cellular activity in 32 (...)

Actors Felicity Huffman (left) and Lori Loughlin are among those charged in a cheating scandalls in US higher education. Photographs: Lisa O’Connor and Tommaso Boddi/AFP/Getty Images
Desperate Housewives star named in US colleges cheating scandal
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  • March 12, 2019, 20:16

Wealthy parents collectively paid tens of millions of dollars to buy places for their children at elite American universities, authorities have allege(...)

“Not an hour went by without some kind of disruption. It’s a terrible way to start recovery.” Photograph: iStock
Slumber puncture: the perils trying to sleep in hospital

If part of a hospital stay is to recover from a procedure or illness, why is it so hard to get any rest? There is more noise and light than is conduc(...)

John Kerry: “I have concerns that depending on what kind of Brexit takes place, it could have a negative impact on the progress made in the last 20 years... We have to see how this is going to be resolved.” File photograph: Khaled Elfiqi/EPA
Solving Border issue without reigniting Troubles ‘imperative’ – John Kerry

Former US secretary of state John Kerry has warned it is “imperative” to resolve the issues thrown up by Brexit surrounding the Irish Border in a way (...)

A meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China in April 2017. Photograph: The New York Times
Markets hoping Xi and Trump can find resolution to trade war at G20

China’s Xi Jinping will hold high-stakes talks with US president Donald Trump this week at the G20 meeting of rich nations in Buenos Aires, and market(...)

Paul M Romer who, along with William D Nordhaus, has won the Nobel Prize for including long-term thinking on climate issues and technological innovation in economic research
US economists win Nobel prize for work on climate change

William D Nordhaus of Yale University and Paul M Romer of New York University’s Stern School of Business have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Ec(...)

A still image taken from video of the final tally of votes by the US Senate on the confirmation of supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, in Washington, DC, US. Photograph: Senate TV via Reuters
President Trump congratulates ‘great nominee’ Brett Kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh has been sworn in as a justice of the US Supreme Court in a major political victory for President Donald Trump. Judge Kavanaugh (53),(...)

US president Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
Kavanaugh inquiry must be comprehensive but quick – Trump

US president Donald Trump has said he wants a “comprehensive” FBI investigation into supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but stressed that it shoul(...)

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