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How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days?

It's been a bad week for burritos on wheels.

In a sperm whale birth recorded in more intimate detail than ever before, local whales huddled around the mother and lifted the calf to the surface.

Repeated fires at Arnolds Field in Launders Lane, Rainham, have plagued residents for years.

At cold temperatures, water has two different liquid phases, which become one at the critical point. The discovery could help explain water's quirks.

An employee at one of America's key nuclear research labs has been missing for months, and now an FBI counterintelligence expert fears it could be part of a sinister pattern.

Fossil jaw remains found in Egypt suggest that the earliest modern apes evolved in North Africa, not in East Africa where most fossils have been found.

Awestruck scientists watched as 10 whales helped a mother named Rounder give birth.

A female sperm whale has been filmed giving birth for the first time, supported by 10 adult females who lifted the calf out of the water and protected it from predators ...

Pieces of jawbone and teeth found in Egypt have been identified as a new early ape species named Masripithecus moghraensis, which lived about 17 million years ago ...