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Does the carbon trapped in its barbs affect a bird’s ability to regulate its own body temperature?

Here in liberal Hollywood, you may have expected jokes and barbs toward US president Donald Trump - but his name didn't come up even once.

Then noting that there are some jokes “that I’m not even brave enough to tell,” O’Brien stepped aside for the members to deliver the barbs.

He turned and pointed to a yawning, barbed wire-ringed pit sitting beneath denuded hills.

Elen, from Anglesey, said she suffered with pain that felt like "barbed wire around her stomach" before her diagnosis, which she was told was "just period pains".