Blinking in the brilliant light, this is a fluffy polar bear cub coming face to face with the spectacular Arctic outdoors for the first time.

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Here comes the sun: Rare images capture mother polar bear taking her fluffy cub outdoors for the very first time (Daily Mail: World News)

Chimen Abramsky, who has died aged 93, was a Jewish intellectual, historian, book collector and bibliographer of world renown. Although he wrote many academic papers, he published few books. Yet his academic legacy was huge.

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With local libraries high on the list of targets in swingeing cuts to council budgets, many more branches could face closure unless they are run by volunteers As soon as you walk through the door, it becomes clear that Woodberry Down community library in Hackney, east London, reflects the literary tastes of its local community. The disproportionately large number of books with Caribbean and ...

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Cutbacks at councils could wipe libraries off the books (Guardian Unlimited)

Hollywood actor to read Jim Morrison's poetry on soundtrack album for forthcoming documentary The soundtrack album for a forthcoming Doors documentary will feature 12 of the band's classic songs, five rare clips – and 15 tracks of Johnny Depp reading poetry. The actor appears on almost half of the record's cuts, reciting verse written by Jim Morrison. Depp provides the narration for When You're ...

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Johnny Depp to feature on Doors album (Guardian Unlimited)

Michael Mewshaw did a dangerous and perhaps foolhardy thing for his 65th birthday: He embarked on a 4,000-mile overland journey through the terrorist-ridden lands of North Africa. But now that his firsthand account has hit the bookstores, he says his roughest experience has come at the hands of the U.S. State Department.

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U.S. takes issue with author's account of visit at embassy in Algiers (Washington Post)

Glenn Howard and his rink paraded into the Page 1 vs.

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Howard struggles, but books spot in Brier final (Ottawa Citizen)

My friend André de Wet, who has died aged 75, was a photographer with a sharp eye for news pictures and a rare sense of artistry. Born in Cape Town, he was educated at Wellington boys high school, in Cape Province

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André de Wet obituary (Guardian Unlimited)

What's up with that?: Polydactyl cats not so rare

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What's up with that?: Polydactyl cats not so rare (Observer-Reporter)

More than 150,000 historic books from 160 National Trust properties have been catalogued online for the first time.

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National Trust: Historic books catalogued online (Yorkshire Evening Post)

PAUL Reid should be dead.

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Can apricot kernels keep cancer at bay? (North Queensland Register)