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“There was no jewelled Anglo Saxon silver-gilt binding – this would have been torn off and melted down during the Reformation, but here was a book, de Hamel now felt, that was surely a lost holy relic of the Middle Ages.”

“In reality, once Anita has sold a child on, she knows little about their fate. She sells them to the businesswoman for 50,000 shillings for a girl or 80,000 shillings for a boy, she said — £350 or £550. That is roughly the going rate in Nairobi to steal a child from a woman on the street.”

In the past six months, there have been at least 40 reported incidents involving orcas off the coasts of Spain and Portugal.

“I could hear crying and screaming. As time went on they got quieter and quieter as children died, they were buried and running out of air.”

A ground-breaking series of operations in a British hospital separate two sisters fused at the head.

The story of how, after years of difficulty, George finally found his family.

Launched in the 1970s, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 — the first two spacecraft and human-made objects to leave our solar system — have reached interstellar space and now beam back images from this mysterious region.

“Her own bishop supported Pétain so she wrote to Archbishop Saliège for advice. She records his response in her journal: “Let’s lie, let’s lie, my daughter, as long as we are saving human lives.””

“His love for his sons leaps out from all his letters, but in one of the last he had a surprise for them.”