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The annual London flower show has an undeniable global allure — so why is it not taken seriously?

A train car in Whitewater Township, Ohio, was discovered to be leaking styrene, which is used to make plastic and fiberglass and is highly flammable.

$17bn combination of shale drillers would be latest deal in industry consolidation wave

Takeover is latest in wave of consolidation sweeping across shale energy industry

Puzzle: just a single line of play, but you’ll do well to find it in a quarter of an hour

Puzzle: can you win this endgame for White? 

Puzzle: can you do better than the US grandmaster?

Puzzle: solve this tricky mate in two

Long banned and now newly translated, the Soviet writer’s picaresque novel takes aim at the brutality of collectivisation