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Malaysians win global Internet popularity contest

Malaysians are the most popular people on the Internet, while Japanese are the least, according to a global survey which shows how national cultures are reflected in online behaviour.

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A sucker for succulents: See them through the frost, and you'll have Californian sunshine all year round

My grandma sounded very pleased on the phone earlier; she'd just persuaded my uncle to come round and collect her plants. Not all of them. Just the precious collection of succulent plants that sit in pots on her balcony – they are off to spend the cold spell in his greenhouse. Succulents are desert plants that survive in the wild by filling their leaves with stored water – a reservoir that makes them prone to frost damage when the temperature goes down. Which it does, every so often, in the non-deserts of mid-Oxfordshire.

Collages by Linder feature in pop-up shop House of Voltaire

On the agenda: House of Voltaire; Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City; Cinnamon Club; Erdem Moralioglu; Hay-on-Wye's Crunch festival; Xbox

What's the point? We're off to Hay to find out. Plus, Erdem gets floral for Matches

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There are a growing number of claims against individual doctors for negligent prescribing benzodiazepines

Drugs linked to brain damage 30 years ago

Nina Lakhani: MPs and campaigners predict class action after failures to mount full-scale research into warnings left millions of patients at risk.

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Mini retro: Thanks to its new two-cylinder engine, the Fiat 500 is the car it should have been when it was first reincarnated three years ago

Fiat 500 Twinair

The sound of a car is important, and the new Fiat 500 makes all the right noises

Going it alone: Hamsters are solitary creatures and should not share cages unless you are breeding them

Pet of the week: The Syrian hamster

Undeniably cute with his twitchy whiskers, pouchy cheeks and shining eyes, it's easy to see how the hamster has snuggled his way to our hearts. Unlike Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny, the hamster has never needed an animated alter-ego equivalent to do the talking for him. Not unless you count Richard Hammond...