23 February 2012 Last updated at 04:50 ET

Paralympic chic A new branded accessory for the amputee athlete Sarah Reinertsen

Midnight hour Is it better for us to sleep in four-hour chunks? Woman awake

Tongue tied Is English or Mandarin the language of the future? Mandarin-English dictionary

Ashes to ashes Titanium hips and cobalt-chrome knees, reborn Surgical implants

Being hyperpolyglot How hard is it to learn 18 languages? Illustration of people speaking different languages

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people looked for jack russells on Battersea Dogs Home's website as terrier Uggie attended the Baftas

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Dickens of the day

“The rags of the squalid ballad-singer fluttered in the rich light that showed the goldsmith's treasures, pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food, hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass - an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India”

A coach party from the provinces reaches the bustling streets of London, in Nicholas Nickleby

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