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Chinstrap Antarctic penguin (Image courtesy of Discovering Antarctica website)

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Not many people know a lot about Antarctica other than it's a frozen, windswept continent with no permanent inhabitants.

Bulgarian poster - protecting children on the web

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Internet use in Bulgaria is big and while that has many benefits it also carries many risks, particularly for children. To tackle the potential dangers head-on, a number of projects have been launched with UK help.

Black-browed albatross, Falkland Islands. Ann Brown, Falklands Conservation

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How the FCO is helping Britiain's far-flung Overseas Territories protect their animals and birds

Audience at a Radical Middle Way meeting

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The Radical Middle Way is a Muslim grassroots movement dedicated to making mainstream Islam relevant to young British Muslims.

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As a candidate for EU membership, Croatia is working hard to get its courts operating to EU justice standards.

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Despite the bouts of political instability suffered by Pakistan over the years, the country's youth are being put through their democratic paces.

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Imagine you’re an average teenage girl. Maybe you’re worried about getting good A level results or even GCSE grades. Then one day you’re forced to travel to your family's homeland......and forced to marry a man you’ve never even met.

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Last year, FCO's British Hajj Delegation (BHD) helped more than 25,000 British Muslims make a safe, sacred journey to Mecca.

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China-UK links are growing fast. Not only does the UK run the quickest visa service in China; more and more Chinese students and tourists are coming to Britain.

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US states are moving faster than the US government to cut carbon emissions and increase their alternative energy sources. The latest to sign up is Florida.

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The UK is doing its bit in Guatemala by encouraging parents to register their children at birth.

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Here is Philip Barclay on how Zimbabwe's environment and wildlife is suffering.

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FCO staff worldwide have to keep up to speed with all the political or social changes in the country to which they have been posted. Peter Wilson, our political counsellor in China, is no exception and here is an extract from his latest blog.

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The UK has helped launch a full commercial stem cell service in Canada offering a cure for injuries to horses' tendons and ligaments.

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The FCO is helping the small west African country of Guinea Bissau to heal the wounds of conflict by funding a programme to collect and destroy small and light weapons.

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Meet Ayesha from Morocco. Her life has changed for the better. She now feels confident about discussing her rights with her husband since learning about the country's new family law.

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A British company is giving many amputees back their former dexterity with its groundbreaking bionic hand.

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The FCO Arabic website closely mirrors the look and feel of the FCO main website and will eventually provide our Arabic readers with the same tools.

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The FCO Urdu website closely mirrors the look and feel of the FCO main website and is gradually providing our Urdu readers with the same tools.

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Many children suffering from polio in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, have been helped by the charity, Stand Proud, supported by local Foreign Office staff.

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Highly-skilled Indians who want to work in Britain can now apply for their visas under the new UK points-based system (PBS).

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Electricity consumption in parts of the city of Betim in eastern Brazil has gone down by 40 per cent over the past few months, helped by a project supported by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

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The UK has helped launch what is possibly the world's first sustainable biofuel company.

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How about swapping the Archers and Ambridge for a barber's shop in a rural Afghan village? Three times a week almost 14 million people across Afghanistan tune into the radio soap opera New Home, New Life – funded by the FCO and produced by BBC.

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One of the problems for countries in the former Soviet Union has been the quality of some of their statistics, particularly those dealing with energy.

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Defence attaches at UK embassy in Moscow honour Russian war veterans by cycling 1000 miles in 10 days

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Stem cells from babies' milk teeth are being frozen by a UK company as an insurance policy against diseases they might develop when they grow up.

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