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Join Urban Times and GE Healthcare on Weds 26 June for our #GetFitChat tweet chat, where we will take part in the global #GetFit challenge to encourage cancer prevention.

Last week Russian Parliament (the Duma) passed a law that forbids ‘gay propaganda’ among minors – a dangerous indication of the growth of Christian fundamentalism.

Urban street art typically presents itself at the human scale - across walls, billboards and pavements. Urban Times takes a look at those artists who are playing with scale in the city by asking us all to look a little closer...

In spite of itself, The Fast and The Furious movie franchise may be the right tool to teach you about failure.

3D printing will change our world and we must change our laws as well, especially as 3D printing equipment gets cheaper and cheaper and technological limits begin to fade away. But flexible regulatory limits will need to be introduced and adjusted.

Paying the restaurant bill should not be a complex or time-consuming procedure. It often is. This is the second of the 'Logic Rules' Series – examining the many logical behaviours we eschew for illogical reasons.

A new documentary highlights an endemic culture of abuse, and aims to challenge a system of self-policing in the military that is failing to deliver justice.

Following the Bangladesh Factory Fire in May some of the world's biggest fashion houses are signing an agreement that requires they stop doing business with any factory that refuses to make safety upgrades.