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What are the odds of being related to a medieval king? and how many cows for a fiver?

Renewable capacity has surpassed that of coal–is this good news? Plus an asteroid update.

High-rolling pensioners? predicting Norovirus, air pollution deaths and lost or found?

A new NASA warning system means we’re getting better at spotting Earth-bound space rocks. But how safe are we?

Is dementia on the rise? Plus immigration, incomplete contacts and chocolate muffins

Sexual violence was widespread in Liberia’s brutal and bloody year civil war. But were three quarters of women in the country raped?

We speak to Amelia Hoover Green from Drexel University, Dara Cohen from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, researcher Phyllis Kimba and Aisha Dukule from the think tank Center For Liberia's Future in Monrovia.

(Photo: Liberian women and children wait for rice rations in overcrowded Monrovia, June 2003. Credit: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images)

Who voted in the US elections? Plus are there nine million stray cats in the UK?

Does the world really spend three times as much on ice cream than on humanitarian aid?

The fact-checkers have been working overtime looking into the numbers used by Donald Trump during his campaign to become President of the USA. In the wake of the election next week, we take a look at some of Trump’s more outrageous statistical claims

Is a girl under 15 married every seven seconds? And beware dangerous algorithms