Guernsey's war memorial cannot cope with the number of people attending the Remembrance Sunday service, according to the man behind plans to move it.

BBC: Plan to move memorial over crowding

However, those older women who still had independent lives may be able to tolerate the treatment and so cancer specialists should not assume all elderly women with advanced cancer cannot cope with the drugs.

BBC: Elderly women denied cancer drugs

More importantly, the decision is a major boost to cheap life-saving drugs in a country where the healthcare system cannot cope with the demands on it and most people end up buying their own medicines if they can afford to.

BBC: Is Novartis ruling a watershed?

But Dr Mousseau suggests a more likely explanation is that evolution has already been at work near Chernobyl, killing off individual birds that cannot cope with the background radiation and allowing the genes of those that have some tolerance to be passed on.

ECONOMIST: Radiation and evolution

Officials in El Salvador say they cannot ask the United States to stop the deportations, but nor can they cope with them on any large scale.

ECONOMIST: Criminal gangs in the Americas

Although the human cells are very good at repairing this damage, they cannot cope with high doses of radiation.

BBC: Radon

Precisely because the exchange rate cannot adjust, it reduces a country's ability to cope with shocks, such as a big change in commodity prices.

ECONOMIST: The great escape