AFTER 93 hours of fasting, 15-year-old Sarah's* body has been pushed to breaking point: she's lost her hearing, she's feeling dizzy and her eyesight is going. But she knows she can't eat because her "ana buddy" - an online pal of a similar age who also has an eating disorder - is forcing her to starve herself and will send her abuse if she doesn't. Sarah is one of dozens of British children who use "

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Japan and China have been in a long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands that Beijing calls the Diaoyu. Japan has told Beijing to remove a buoy that it found floating in the sea near the disputed Senkaku islands, known in China as the Diaoyu islands. Tokyo says the buoy was found within its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The uninhabited chain of islands and rocks, which lie about 190 nautical miles southwest of Okinawa, have been controlled by Japan since 1895, but are also claimed by self-ruled Taiwan.

The case for language learningEducationFrom 'apples and pears' to 'weep and wail', an A to Z of Cockney rhyming slang and the meanings behind the east end's most famous linguistic exportMany of us know that "brown bread" is Cockney rhyming slang for dead, "china plate" for mate, and "bubble bath" for laugh. But how many know the meaning of the phrases? The historic native wit of this east end community (and its followers from around the world) often has an interesting logic to its phrases.

Thousands of people gathered in Yemen‘s war-ravaged city of Saada on Monday for the funerals of 51 people, including 40 children, who were killed in air strikes by a Saudi-UAE military alliance, backed by the US. Scores of cars covered in green, which is a hugely symbolic colour in Islam, transported the victims’ coffins from a hospital morgue to a large square for funeral prayers, in a ceremony which was attended by several high-ranking Houthi officials.