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A spirit bear in British Columbia. A recent study revealed that the white bear is rarer and more vulnerable than previously thought. Photograph: Jack PlantA spirit bear in British Columbia. A recent study revealed that the white bear is rarer and more vulnerable than previously thought. Photograph: Jack PlantThis land is your landEnvironmentAdept at catching salmon because they blend into the daylight, the white bears are small in number – yet First Nations are stepping in to help

CoachellaReviewFrom his recent apocalyptic anger back to his early screwball humour, Eminem acknowledges his star has waned – but he’s still a funny, anthemic star Paris Hilton is in the crowd at Eminem with her fiance, but are the millennials? I am standing between her and a sixtysomething white-haired man who will soon be swaying his hips to every bar. Before Em appears, Paris – who became infamous during that same weird late-90s MTV era as the rapper – takes selfies with everyone, happy to be recognised: like Eminem, she’s fighting to stay around.

‘The Islamic fundamental of marriage is that a woman should feel safe’… Dr Amra Bone hears a divorce request at Birmingham Central mosque. Photograph: i-Images‘The Islamic fundamental of marriage is that a woman should feel safe’… Dr Amra Bone hears a divorce request at Birmingham Central mosque. Photograph: i-ImagesSharia lawSharia councils say they offer Muslim women a way out of religious marriage but critics argue this parallel legal system can leave vulnerable people trapped in abuse.

New Jersey This article is more than 2 months old‘Our little uniter’: New Jersey town bereft by capture of Turkules the wild turkeyThis article is more than 2 months oldLocal celebrity spent weeks outwitting animal control officers and was praised by residents of West Orange for bringing ‘town together’ Residents of West Orange, New Jersey, have been left heartbroken after a wild turkey named “Turkules”, whose resilient nature and ability to evade capture “brought the town together”, was finally snared by state officials.

The amazing world of animals Oregon Portland, Oregon, family call 911 after cat 'holds them hostage’ – video report A recording of a 911 call by a family in Portland, Oregon, requesting police assistance after their 22lb Himalayan cat trapped them inside a bedroom after attacking their seven-month-old baby. The family says the cat, named Lux, has a history of violent behaviour and they could not stop him after he went 'crazy' Source: ITN

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NetherlandsThe Netherlands’ Green leader, Jesse Klaver, has quadrupled his party’s polling in a few months and is now closing in on Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom party It isn’t hard to see why, with only a hint of tongue-in-cheek, Jesse Klaver is described by some in the Netherlands as “the Jessiah”. Amid so much doom and gloom about the fate of the left across Europe in the face of seemingly unstoppable populist movements, the success of the bright-eyed 30-year-old leader of the Green Left party in the polls just two weeks from the country’s election day is proving to be something of a buoy that many progressives are holding on to for dear life.

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The nature of ...Marine life This article is more than 5 months oldA horseshoe crab: it is only when you see the shell wet from the water, close up, that you know they are realThis article is more than 5 months oldHelen SullivanThey have milky blue blood that can detect toxins – and people in lab coats want it Every day in bright clinical rooms in countries all over the world, horseshoe crabs are strapped into specially designed harnesses and drained of a third of their blood by people in lab coats.