Conservationist who devoted his life to the study and preservation of the African elephant

The British scientist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who has died aged 83, became the world’s leading authority on the behaviour of African elephants and played a vital part in ensuring their conservation.

His efforts to save the African elephant began in 1965 when, as an Oxford zoology graduate who had also just...

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Three crew members left the International Space Station and landed back on Earth after 245 days in space.

The cosmonaut and station commander, Sergey Ryzhikov, handed over a symbolic key  to the Nasa astronaut Mike Fincke during a change of command ceremony onboard the station.

The spacecraft landed at 8.04am Moscow time near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan.

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The work of surgeon and artist Joseph Maclise is the focus of a show at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds

It is an image of an unnamed black man with his eyes closed and his innards exposed. Drawn with care and precision, the image may be the only anatomical drawing of a black body made during the Victorian age.

Now it is part of a new exhibition that focuses on the work of Joseph...

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