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The Last Leap,

1. The commission published its draft report and findings last month, identifying key recommendations for care homes in tackling the underlying causes of undignified care, and changes the commission believes need to take place across the wider health and social care system.

2. The medical research charity urged people at risk of vitamin D deficiency to take advantage of the chance to top up their levels of the " sunshine vitamin ".

3. The World Bank and other multilateral development banks are spending billions on road infrastructure, but road safety is too often an afterthought.

4. They decided to hold joint, biannual world conferences and agreed to link these events to a global agenda-building process.

5. Scientists at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Research used physics, statistical analysis and computer simulations to link extreme rainfall and heatwaves to global warming.

6. Single weather extremes are often related to regional processes, like a blocking high pressure system or natural phenomena like El Nino.

7. However, the best way to influence public policy is openly and through the front door, via perfectly legitimate representations made on behalf of companies – trades unions and charities too – in the traditional way, through MPs, civil servants and departmental ministers.

8. At present, our young people are responding to the social crisis they face with the labour market not through mass political protest or social disorder, but through private solutions, including emigration, including self-destructive tendencies.

9. After the long war, the government, supported by development agencies, launched a vast coffee-growing programme in the region to help put the country on the road to recovery.

10. France's politicians are a ruling elite that resembles an ancient regime aristocracy desperately clinging to its privilege and power, according to a new book by a Paris-based British author.

11. Faced with stagnant economy, drastic welfare reform, huge public spending cuts, rising living costs – the Welsh government has responded by appointing what it believes is the first of its kind in the UK: a cabinet minister whose primary brief is to tackle poverty.

12. Social care services and the NHS will come under increased pressure, while educational attainment may dip, according to the Welsh government analysis.

13. Lewis rails against what he sees as a brazenly ideological attempt by the coalition government in Whitehall to "take advantage of a good crisis" to foist an " almost American-style social security setup " on the UK – a move he has called a "social atrocity".

14. A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with diggers and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities have announced.

15. Less memorable but equally unpopular has been the threat of shutting village schools in the name of administrative efficiency.

16. All over the rich world, there are parents who leave the childproof lids off medicines because they find them so fiddly, and office workers so irritated by self-closing fire doors that they prop them open.

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