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Human ancestors consumed parts of trees like bark and leaves, as well as sedges, shrubs or herbs, rather than grass

Shawn Sullivan, 43, is accused of raping a 14-year-old girl and sexually molesting two 11-year-old girls in Minnesota between 1993 and 1994.

‘Potentially dangerous’ prisoner eluded security and escaped from Pentonville prison by climbing wall using makeshift rope.

Death toll rises to 27 in the latest incidents of clashes between the security forces and Islamic militants in the northern parts of Nigeria.

Shelter research identifies areas in England where people have highest risk of home loss and identifies link to unemployment.

Rayhim Bani Muslim died in 'tragic accident' after falling through broken glass panel at North Bank apartments.

Thriller, Michael Jackson's tiger, died of lung cancer on 11 June... eerily the same month in which the King of Pop died, aged 50, three years ago

The inferno has been out of control for the fifth day and as yet only five percent of the blaze has been put out.

Police arrest man on suspicion of manslaughter of two-year-old Jamie Heaton following Buckley Street house blast.

Anti-body vaccine developed by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College blocks addictive nicotine chemicals from reaching the brain.

Rex Tillerson makes comments during a presentation to the Council on Foreign Relations which included government officials, business people and non-governmental groups.

During Jin Shin Jyutsu sessions, patients receive light touches on 52 specific energy points called Safety Energy Locks as well as fingers, toes, and midpoints on the upper arm, upper calf and lower leg in predetermined orders known as "flows."

A tourist resort run by Barefoot India in the Andaman Islands has been dealt a fatal blow, after India's government banned tourism businesses from operating in a buffer zone around the Jarawa tribal reserve.

Expensive computer glitches that affected millions of customers and left companies red-faced and out of pocket.

Police believe death of Jamie Heaton in explosion in Shaw, Oldham, may have been murder, discounting gas leak theory.

WWF and Traffic voice support as Gabon president Ali Baba lit a pyre of more than 4,000 Kilos of Ivory blocked from illegal trade in Asia.

The case had come up in a court in Cologne when the circumcision case of a four-year-old Muslim boy became complicated.

Kong Hee, founder of one of Singapore's richest evangelical churches, charged with fraud for allegedly funnelling millions of dollars of church funds to fund his wife's singing career.

End Violence Against women Coalition has supported calls from Tower Hamlets residents to focus on pimps and customers.

Queen Elizabeth and Martin McGuinness shake hands in historic milestone in Anglo-Irish relationship.

Japan is ignoring lessons from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, triggered by last year's earthquake and a massive tsunami, say two seismologists.

Van full of gas canisters reversed into Microsoft building in Greek capital and incendiary device triggered but nobody hurt.

McAfee and Guardian Analytics unmask cyber fraudsters plundering thousands of bank accounts worldwide.

Newcastle University scientists find green rust could be used to clean up metal pollution and even radioactive waste.

Caltech scientists have discovered panguite, a new mineral, embedded in the Allende meteorite.

Detectives treating two-year-old victim's death as suspicious after gas blast rips through homes.

House of Commons administrators put legal stamp of approval on name-change to mark Queen's diamond jubilee.

The University of Exeter, SSE, Consumer Focus and WWF, along with representatives from 12 other organisations, release results of a series of roundtables on UK energy policy.

Vigilante squads hunt down father of Feng Jianmei's aborted child as local government turns up heat in propaganda war.