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The British theatre changed for ever when Joe Melia, asthe sardonic teacher Bri, pushed a severely disabled 10-year-old girl in a wheelchair on to the stage of the Glasgow Citizens in May 1967 and proceeded tomake satirical jokes about the medical profession while his marriage was disintegrating. The play was Peter Nichols's A Day in

Once the worlds biggest city, the Silk Road metropolis of Merv in modern Turkmenistan destroyed by Genghis Khans son and the Mongols in AD1221 with an estimated 700,000 deaths. It never fully recovered

The Philippines signalled its intention to get tough on crime yesterday when it carried out its first execution in 23 years. Leo Echegaray, aged 38, a house painter convicted of raping his stepdaughter, was executed by lethal injection at the New Bilibid prison on the outskirts of Manila. He was the first prisoner put to

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When these young entrepreneurs bought a remote ski resort in Utah, they dreamed of an exclusive, socially conscious community. Is this the future, or Mt Olympus for Generation Me? Jeff Rosenthal is standing near the top of his snow-covered mountain wearing a fluffy jacket, fingerless gloves and ripped jeans. Its surreal, man! he says, shivering