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Faulty sampling blamed for UK pollsters’ failure

A post-mortem into why opinion polls failed spectacularly to predict a Conservative Party victory in Britain’s 2015 parliamentary election has blamed sample recruitment methods and, potentially, unint

20 Jan 2016 12:25 AM

Anglicans slam US branch over gay marriage

The Anglican Church has slapped sanctions on its liberal US branch for supporting same-sex marriage, a move that averted a formal schism in the world’s third-largest Christian denomination but left de

16 Jan 2016 5:48 AM

Grim relief, mixed feelings in UK on Jihadi John strike

News that the ISIS militant known as “Jihadi John” may have died in a US airstrike brought relief mingled with grief and vengeful thoughts on Friday to the loved ones of the two British aid workers he

13 Nov 2015 11:06 PM

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