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Are hospitals the safest place for healthy women to have babies? An obstetrician thinks twice

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imageFor childbirth, how much intervention is too much?Image of pregnant woman via www.shutterstock.com.

There is a good chance that your grandparents were born at home. I am going to go ahead and assume they turned out fine, or at least fine enough, since you were eventually born too and are now reading this.

But since the late 1960s, very few babies in...

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FIFA, Blatter and Africa: a special relationship

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imageHappier days in Africa. Amr Dalsh/Reuters

On Tuesday, June 2, Sepp Blatter announced his intention to resign as FIFA president just four days after winning reelection to a fifth term — an electoral victory that simply could not have happened without the support of FIFA’s African members.

According to unofficial calculations, the 133...

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Two covers, two culture shifts

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imageIn both of photographer Annie Leibovitz's shots, deviance is synonymous with beauty.Vanity Fair

Sometimes, a picture can transform a culture.

Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover, which exploded across the country this week, certainly elicits comparisons with transgender actress Laverne Cox’s 2014 photograph on the cover of Time. Time...

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  3. Modi's 'Make in India' plan needs more labour market reform
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  6. From epic storm pics to fairies in the garden, be careful with images
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  8. Community TV's last stand from the government's spectrum grab
  9. Digital Domesday: surveillance threatens us with a new serfdom
  10. If it is sensible, Labour won't erase Ed Miliband from its collective memory
  11. With Blatter gone, the hard work of changing FIFA culture starts now
  12. Anti-boycott movement is a smokescreen for Netanyahu's far-right agenda
  13. Ukraine conflict is not in stalemate – it's getting worse
  14. Sepp Blatter and FIFA: looking back at what comes next
  15. How FIFA (via Interpol) turned to academia to clean up the 'beautiful game'
  16. 'Global Apollo' programme for renewables cannot take off without political power
  17. The Australian Government shows how not to do research about how to treat diabetes
  18. How online vigilantes make paedophile policing more difficult
  19. Large Hadron Collider is back to change our understanding of the universe ... again
  20. Note to Harvey Goldsmith: it's your music that's dead, not festivals
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  24. What happened to all those banks that failed in the crisis?
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  32. The National Gallery is erasing women from the history of art
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  36. Extremist activity: don't even think about it in this pre-crime state
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  41. Pockets of progress in Africa's election landscape
  42. Helping learners become fluent in the language of science classrooms
  43. Testing at work and nightclubs unlikely to reduce ice demand
  44. Where the dark gets in: why Dark Mofo lightens a crowded calendar
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