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The 1986 reform decriminalised consensual anal intercourse – subject, naturally, to the age of consent being respected and with protection for those without capacity to consent. Other forms of male homosexual activity could now occur without the risk of arrest. Female homosexual activity wasn’t mentioned because it had never been criminal.

If evolution pushes puncture tools toward certain shapes to deal with specific jobs, what happens if tools from both an animal and plant have essentially the same job? In these cases, evolution can lead to striking similarities.

The aroma of the butter topping and the crunch of the choc top are sensory experiences that, like the big screen, just aren’t the same at home.

Secondary injuries happen for a simple reason. After an injury, the body often changes the way it moves. This is a normal protective response. If one area hurts, feels weak or isn’t working properly, the body shifts the workload elsewhere.

During pregnancy, the placenta is treated as vital. It is monitored because it helps sustain the baby. But after birth, it can quickly be treated as a disposal issue rather than something a woman may have feelings, beliefs or plans about.

When you run outside, you push into the ground to propel yourself forward. But when you are running on a treadmill, the belt moves under your feet, helping with this propulsion. Basically, the machine does a small amount of the work for you.

The study developed a 13-food-group scoring system, in which commonly consumed foods were classified into 13 context-specific food groups based on their micronutrient content.

The glam clown blends clown aesthetics with techniques of high fashion. This fashionable clown embraces qualities of exaggeration, spectacle, playful artificiality and out-of-this-world performance.

After over a decade of favouring keyboarding, the schools are finally putting pen to paper when it comes to the practice of cursive handwriting, with the state of Pennsylvania becoming the latest to join the cursive bandwagon. A decision backed as much by experience, as experiment and research.

Several global indices have placed Indian passports in the league of African nations like Gambia, Rwanda and Burkina Faso. What holds Indian passports back from being in the first quarter of nations?

Children in the poorest neighbourhoods are more than twice as likely to be obese compared with those in the wealthiest neighbourhoods. For severe obesity, the gap is more than fourfold and is still widening.

The key reason why the simple act of eating becomes so unappealing to us in the heat largely has to do with the body working to keep running, and avoid overheating.