• 08 Feb 2010 20:51

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  Tuesday February 9, 2010

  • We're living in broken Britain, say most voters

  

  We're living in broken Britain, say most voters

  

  Poll for The Times finds voters are deeply pessimistic about Britain today and believe society is heading the wrong way

  • COMMENT: Broken Britain?

  • IN FULL: Times poll results

  Bully and liar: Met chief thought he was above law

  

  Commander Ali Dizaei becomes the most senior policeman to be convicted of corruption offences in more than 30 years

  • VIDEO: night that led to his downfall

  • PROFILE: Ali Dizaei - a bully in uniform

  400 Cadbury staff to lose jobs despite pledge

  The Somerdale plant at Keynsham, near Bristol, will in effect shut down, although it may remain open with a skeleton staff

  • IN DEPTH: Factory is more than a place of business

  • Top Cadbury bosses first to go in Kraft purge

  Sri Lanka opposition leader held for 'plotting coup'

  General Sarath Fonseka, former Army chief who led campaign against Tamil Tigers, seized by military police at party HQ

  • ANALYSIS: A political rival humiliated, but at what cost?

  • Commonwealth takes centre stage in Colombo

  

  Ed Balls to answer your questions

  

  McDonald's enjoys a UK burger boom

  

  Campbell: just another sob story

  

  India considers GM crop despite warning

  Bt brinjal, a new aubergine variety, could help to avert a food crisis — or it could poison humans, scientists warn

  Archbishop to fight unease over women bishops

  Dr Rowan Williams’s speech at the General Synod is expected to address forcefully the infighting in the Church of England

  Saudi girl, 12, wants to divorce husband, 80

  Country’s Human Rights Commission is supporting the girl in her case, which could lead to a ban on child marriage

  Dignity on the ward?

  

  Flimsy UK hospital gowns to get makeover

  

  Sterling weakens as eurozone’s problems unsettle the markets

  The pound has plummeted by nearly ten cents since mid-January amid fears over how countries will meet debt obligations

  Myners says bonuses are bleeding pension funds

  The City Minister will tell institutional investors that an excessive bonus culture is hitting British pensions

  Allen & Overy expands to Australia

  The firm's arrival in Sydney and Perth will be followed by a recruitment drive aimed at hiring more than 40 junior lawyers

  Commentary   

  

  For the euro, Greece remains the biggest worry

  David Wighton

  

  Indian billionaire sets sights on Liverpool

  Mukesh Ambani is one of two tycoons from the sub-continent competing to buy a controlling stake in the Merseyside club

  • Americans must raise £100m, says Purslow

  • Hicks and Gillett agree re-finance package

  Letting Strauss opt out is big risk, says Warne

  Australian legend says the England captain has shown a "lack of respect" for Test cricket by refusing to go to Bangladesh

  Brees delights after the hurricane

  Saints’ victory over Indianapolis Colts in the Super Bowl brings joy to the community devastated by Katrina in 2005

  

  Arsenal closing in on Bordeaux's Chamakh

  

  'Aints to Saints'

  How victorious New Orleans football team won hearts of the nation

  

  How Amnesty chose the wrong poster-boy

  Collaboration with Moazzam Begg, an extremist who has supported jihadi movements, looks like a serious mistake

  • David Aaronovitch

  They’re all ignoring political climate change

  Both Labour and the Tories are stuck playing short-term games when the voters are crying out for true repentance

  • Rachel Sylvester

  This beard thing is growing from the roots up

  Facial hair is everywhere. But who is setting the trend?

  • Robert Crampton

  

  the best of travel

  

  Live Weds: European festivals

  

  Cultural Istanbul wakes up

  

  Dinner with a West Papuan tribe

  

  'Baby brain' and 12 other pregnancy myths

  When it comes to having a baby we still rely on old wives’ tales. From morning sickness to stretch marks, does the evidence stack up?

  ‘Locking up children doesn’t work’

  Half the children in custody are there for non-violent offences. A new campaign aims to get more of them out

  Dear Tanya: My daughter won’t see her dad

  My eight-year-old doesn’t want to visit to my ex with his new girlfriend

  Archive blog

  

  Murder most foul: Dr Smellie's female pills

  

  An Old World newly minted

  Tate Modern is right to champion this enigmatic Modernist who, after tragic beginnings, reinvented himself in America

  Royal Ballet’s new boys take over the Garden

  Two young choreographers have a chance others can only dream of - taking on the main stage at Covent Garden

  25 years of EastEnders women

  A live episode revealing who killed Archie Mitchell will show how key the soap’s leading ladies are to its success

  Interview

  

  Jeff Bridges opens up his Crazy Heart

  • A bully and a liar: Met chief Ali Dizaei...
  • The 50 Biggest Movies of 2009

  

  TheGame: should Wenger admit he's got it wrong?

  

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• 08 Feb 2010 01:16

  

  Not having a degree didn’t seem to worry Alan Sugar, Richard Branson or Jeremy Clarkson

  Roland White

  Monday February 8, 2010

  • Toyota set to recall Prius hybrid over brake failure

  

  • Who Dat? Super Bowl win brings an early Mardi Gras for New Orleans Saints

  Toyota recalls Prius hybrid over brake failure

  

  In a further humiliation for the company, the owners of 300,000 cars will be told that their brakes may fail on icy surfaces

  • 'Business as usual' reports car dealer

  • Toyota boss breaks his silence over recall crisis

  Cameron in personal attack on Brown

  

  Tory leader calls the Prime Minister ‘shameless defender of the old elite’ as Conservative poster campaign fails

  • MP claims he was told he could move cash

  • Brown calls in Obama team for TV debate help

  Couples offered gene test to cut disease risks

  Procedure costing £700 will screen for mutations that could cause conditions such as cystic fibrosis in children

  • Case study: 'forewarned is forearmed'

  • Screening ‘can stamp out genetic disorders’

  Special Forces chief in Iraq book battle

  Book describing in 'tactical detail' operations carried out by in Iraq from 2003 to 2009 opposed on security grounds

  • SAS joining the fight against Taleban

  • General Petraeus hails SAS after Iraq success

  

  Unchained melody helps Haiti charity

  

  Legal battle over visitor from space

  

  The show went on for Dankworth

  

  American military contractor kidnapped in Iraq

  Iranian-backed terrorist group announce that they are holding Issa Salomi, a 60-year-old Iraqi-Amercian

  CoE refuses to compromise on women bishops

  Traditionalists warned that decision will trigger an exodus from the Church of England of priests and lay people

  Yanukovych claims narrow Ukraine poll victory

  Exit polls showed that Yuliya Tymoshenko, leader of the Orange Revolution, had been beaten by only three percentage points

  Power plant blast

  

  Dozens feared dead in US test run disaster

  

  Xstrata resumes payouts despite profits slide

  Anglo-Swiss miner today reinstated its dividend as Mick Davis predicts a continuing recovery in metal demand

  Two-year dividend famine is set to continue

  Because of capital raisings, shareholders have been in the position of being net payers to companies rather than recipients

  BoE condemns draft EU hedge fund legislation

  European lawmakers will be presented with about 2,000 amendments to the draft legislation

  Economic view   

  

  People with neither talent nor inclination cook, garden, teach, drive and shop

  Jamie Whyte

  

  Terry still at the heart of Capello’s England

  Former captain’s importance as a player is not lost on the manager despite his decision to take away the coveted armband

  • Ferdinand to quit FA fight to appease Capello

  • Capello praises £7m Johnson

  Haskell and Care enjoy trip for England

  England 30 Wales 17: Wales pay high price at Twickenham for injudicious act from Alun Wyn Jones, their lock forward

  Britain battling cash meltdown at Winter Olympics

  Dumper trucks and helicopters import snow amid unseasonally mild temperatures while admin problems also beset Vancouver

  Premier League

  

  Drogba leaves Arsenal title hopes in tatters

  

  Palin has her sights on the White House

  But she concedes: 'I sure as heck better be more astute this time'

  

  Why China wants war of words with US

  Beijing’s belligerence is a diversionary tactic. There’s nothing like nationalist outrage to sweeten unpopular economic reform

  • Bill Emmott

  We might err, but science is self-correcting

  If claims about climate change need to be debunked, you can rely on scientists to do it. Scepticism is what we are all about

  • John Krebs

  ‘Modern’ people are awfully dated

  Contemporary religion, art and voting

  • William Rees-Mogg

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  Best of Education

  

  How tight will university squeeze get?

  

  Should parents set up schools?

  

  Browse the school league tables

  

  Dr Mark Porter: The five vitamins you should be taking

  How to navigate the hyperbole about the benefits of vitamin supplements

  The happiest men in the world

  A Buddhist monk and a British peer have very different views on the secrets of a contented life. Were they still smiling after East met West?

  Nutrition advice: are avocados fattening?

  Half a medium avocado gives you around 132 calories, which is less than a 100g portion of hummus

  Luxury

  

  How to get holiday luxury for less

  

  Where there isn’t a Will...

  She stole the show in Will & Grace. Now actress/singer Megan Mullally is bringing her band and her musical chops to London

  Making comedy out of climate change

  The Friends actress Helen Baxendale has produced a budget film about two misfits on mission to the North Pole

  Single ladies take over the world

  How Beyoncé's routine turned into a dance craze leading babies, TV shows and too many men in leotards to put a ring on it

  Jeff Beck

  

  True guitar hero?

  • Sarah Palin has her sights on the White...

  • How many Facebook friends is too many?

  • M&S leads high street chains selling...

  • American bald eagle back to health after...

  • Iran cuts cultural links with British Museum...

  

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• 07 Feb 2010 07:16

  

  There is a word for the condition of worrying about having too many friends

  Minette Marrin

  Sunday February 7, 2010

  • Home Secretary's fury as expenses MPs claim privilege

  

  Sunday February 07, 2010

  

  • Who have we drawn? England and Wales to face off in Euro 2012 qualifiers

  Home Secretary's fury as expenses MPs claim privilege

  

  Alan Johnson lambasts prospect of three MPs evading trial for fiddling expenses while receiving golden handshakes

  • Three more peers face charges

  'Climategate' professor considered suicide

  

  Phil Jones reveals that he was so traumatised by the backlash against him that he considered ending his life

  Tougher standards shock for university applicants

  Universities accused of raising A-level entry requirements because of a surge in applicants and severe government cuts

  • John Terry, the lion finally brought down

  • Accidental poster boy for press freedom

  

  Survival tactics for a Wag's life

  

  Hopkins: I'm still an outsider

  

  Laureate: all poetry is about love

  Prayers held for murder-suicide family

  Family friends say Hugh McFall, suspected of murdering his wife and daughter, was devoted father with no money worries

  Australia remembers victims of worst bushfires

  A minute’s silence and flags at half-mast mark the first anniversary of the worst bushfires in Australia's history

  Dankworth dies

  

  Britain’s first great jazzman dies aged 82

  Ferdinand set to quit fight with FA

  Rooney starts rout as Portsmouth implode

  bottom side in freefall after three own goals at Old Trafford opponents to send United top

  

  Bonus storm as RBS £7bn down

  Treasury expected to approve a total bonus pool of about £1.3 billion despite bad debts driving state bank into the red

  G7: Greece must be rescued by Europe

  A "European" solution promised to the problems affecting Greece, Portugal and Spain

  • Markets await EU move on Greece debt plan

  • EU sets tough targets for Greece rescue

  Santander readies £15bn float of British banks

  Santander is considering a number of capital-raising options to buy a network of 300 Royal Bank of Scotland branches

  

  Why should executives get paid hundreds of times more than, say, a brain surgeon

  Dominic O'Connell

  

  The truth behind the Hudson miracle

  What really happened when an Airbus crash-landed onto the river

  

  Harman is on a crazy crusade

  The deputy leader of the Labour party still believes that the state will set us free from the tyranny of individual choice

  • Dominic Lawson

  Granny’s a godsend; don’t make her a burden

  Hats off to thousands of carers, but I don’t understand how forcing people to look after their elderly relatives would work

  • India Knight

  Competition for the most imaginary friends

  How cross some of my smartest acquaintances would be if it were suggested to them that they had only 150 Facebook friends

  • Minette Marrin

  Gerald Scarfe

  

  So shall ye reap...

  • Scarfe in 2009

  Women

  

  The relative value of single aunties

  

  Brad-Ange-Jen is about good vs bad

  

  Yes, you can wear leather shorts

  

  The world's most beautiful clothes

  Super-feminine gowns, exquisite embellishments and diamond-encrusted phones. Take a front-row seat for Paris couture 2010

  What would you pay for a quiet life?

  For anyone in search of peace, quiet homes are hot property — especially within striking distance of civilisation

  It’s a mess, darling, but you did try

  A new book trashes modern parenting ideas about constantly praising children. Our author, father of two, puts it to the test

  Singles

  

  The no-fear guide to travelling solo

  

  The skeletons in Henry Moore's closet

  His drawings of Londoners in the Blitz made him a national treasure. But the bluff Yorkshireman had a file of murky secrets

  Taylor Swift, America's sweetheart

  The country-music megastar's sugar-coated style is a perfect antidote to her nation’s ills. Will she be one of the greats?

  Mo Mowlam deserves better than this mess

  The Labour politician was fallible, funny, brave and real, but AA Gill finds a biopic on her life full of unnecessary scenes

  Jeff Bridges

  

  The coolest Oscar nominee on earth

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  • Blur beat Mozart in IQ music chart

  • Listen up, 007, we call it the Puffin

  • Vroom for the electric racers

  • Grisly reading for 8-year-olds

  

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• 06 Feb 2010 13:51

  

  I draw the line at being lectured on plastic overuse by a chuffing toy retailer

  Carol Midgley

  

  • Why Anthony Hopkins still feels like an outsider

  Shock for university applicants

  

  Universities stand accused of raising A-level entry requirements because of a surge in applicants and severe government cuts

  • Private schools plan to set up university

  • Huge cash cuts to hit teaching at universities

  Climate scandal professor considered suicide

  

  Professor Phil Jones has revealed that he was so traumatised by the backlash against him that he considered ending his life

  • Scientist says UN panel is losing credibility

  • The leak was bad. Then came the death threats

  Accused MPs may still get huge payoffs

  Elliot Morley, Jim Devine and David Chaytor may be entitled to the payments despite being charged with false accounting

  • More face court in expenses scandal

  John Terry’s ‘£750,000’ legal gag

  The former England captain has paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to his former mistress to guarantee her silence

  • How to survive a Wag's life

  • John Terry, the accidental poster boy for press freedom

  

  Murdered girl hoped to be a doctor

  18 year-old A-level student Francesca McFall was found dead at her home in Oswestry, Shropshire, with her mother Sue, 56

  Heathrow airport expansion cover-up

  The DfT faces criminal investigation following a complaint that it deleted internal emails about the expansion of the airport

  Queen primed for hung parliament

  The civil service has quietly begun preparing for a hung parliament, codifying in a single document the role of the monarch

  Love and death

  

  Powerful images of Mexican drug wars and UK romance

  

  Ferdinand to spare FA blushes

  The new England captain is considering dropping his appeal against an FA ban to try to smooth his introduction to the role

  • Fit-again Ferdinand is the right man for the job

  • Europeans keep it zipped about soccer sexploits

  Rooney starts rout as Portsmouth self-destruct

  Man United 5 Portsmouth 0: bottom side left in freefall after contributing three own goals to Old Trafford opponents

  Ireland begin defence with comfortable win

  Ireland 29 Italy 11: Six Nations holders secure easy win but struggle to impress against tournament's minnows

  Six Nations

  

  Forward thinking lets Haskell punish Wales

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• 05 Feb 2010 19:36

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  Saturday February 6, 2010

  • Accused MPs argue they are above the law

  

  • Sacked England captain John Terry 'paid to keep former lover silent'

  Accused MPs argue they are above the law

  

  Three Labour MPs charged with theft over fraudulent expense claims aim to use parliamentary privilege to avoid trial

  • IN DEPTH: MPs in court as election starts

  • ANALYSIS: Privileges put to the test

  BAE inquiry ends with minor accountancy charges

  

  The six-year investigation that began with allegations of billion-pound bribes to Saudi princes ends with £285m fine

  • ANALYSIS: A stain from BAE's past removed

  • SFO charges Count in BAE bribery case

  Husband guilty of murder despite lack of a body

  Adrian Prout shows no remorse as jury returns majority verdict with life sentence the mandatory punishment for the killer

  • IN DEPTH: Diary of a marriage breakdown

  • ANALYSIS: Missing, presumed dead

  US extremists come to the fore at Tea Party rally

  A dark underbelly of xenophobia has been exposed at the first national gathering of the Tea Party movement in Nashville

  • COMMENT: Reagan would never have taken ‘purity pledge’

  • US Tea Party 'revolution' threatened by discord

  

  Benicio Del Toro on life as The Wolfman

  

  Lord Browne on the day he was outed

  

  The 10 best and worst paying jobs

  

  Mystery as 'family man' kills wife and daughter

  Hugh McFall killed his wife, Susan, and their daughter, Francesca before driving to his office to commit suicide

  Blunders that cost lives of troops revealed

  The US military released parts of its investigation into a notorious Taleban attack that nearly overran an American base

  Bishop: Labour has erased God from political life

  Tom Wright, the fourth-most-senior in the Church, says the British public has been left to "lurch in a sea of amoralism"

  20 years on

  

  Audio: Times reporter on Mandela's release

  

  Johnson to kick sterility into touch

  Players from all teams believe that they are better than the laws allow. They will be out to prove it in the Six Nations

  • Tait starting to find his feet again

  • Cipriani a rebel without England cause

  Premier League previews: Vieira set for debut

  All the team news, injury problems and squads from around the grounds for the weekend matches in the top flight

  Wenger: finishing third better than winning Cup

  Arsenal manager claims that third place in the league would be a better achievement than winning the Carling Cup or FA Cup

  Football

  

  England spotlight now falls on Ferdinand

  

  Kraft to produce more of its brands in Britain

  US chief says company will manufacture more of its global brands in the UK as it completes its integration with Cadbury

  Tory defends £45m sale of shares before slump

  Michael Spencer, the Conservative Party treasurer, has strongly defended selling the shares in Icap, his interdealer broker

  • It’s all about timing — ask investors at Icap

  • Icap shares plunge 19% on profits warning

  Credit binge bites with 134,000 insolvencies

  Figures boosted by middle-class professionals going bust last year as their debt-fuelled lifestyles hit the buffers

  

  For things to have got so much worse at Icap in so short a time will strain the credulity of some

  Patrick Hosking

  

  Special effects: a substitute for good acting?

  Thespians get jumpy after the success of Avatar's virtual characters

  

  The Enlightenment was a capital idea, Sir

  Admittedly, we can do without the worst effects of the scientific revolution, like the Toyota Yaris, but really . . .

  • Giles Coren

  I’d rather Cameron was patient than brave

  Those calling for a radical Tory manifesto should be careful. Brilliant ideas have a habit of frightening the voters away

  • Matthew Parris

  Our bird brain is nothing to crow about

  Wild Notebook

  • Simon Barnes

  • Watch Nicky Clayton's bird dance

  

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  Clowning at Club Med, Provence

  

  Cheerleading with Miami Dolphins

  

  Mandela's prison, 20 years on

  

  Naomi Wolf: sleep is a feminist issue

  Sleep, say US feminists, is the next big issue for women to address — doing less and enjoying more duvet time is the way to go

  Tracksuit bottoms are back

  The celebrity contingent has already taken sweat pants to heart. But try to like an off-duty dancer, not an on-couch potato

  The lost boys of Hebden Bridge

  Why does this pretty Pennine town have one of the highest suicide rates in England? Local boy Mark Piggott investigates

  Alpha Mummy

  

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  The true Brits spirit

  Jarvis Cocker’s bottom, Geri Halliwell’s dress ... as the awards hit 30, the stars recall pop's most iconic moments

  David Sedaris: The unquiet American

  The satirist David Sedaris has sold millions of books and filled Carnegie Hall but lives a low-profile life in London

  Born again to the Renaissance

  In a hidden studio at the National Gallery, a 15th-century painting is magically restored to its former glory

  Television

  

  The top ten small-screen bitches ever

  • John Terry dropped as England captain
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  • Expenses MPs to defy courts over prosecutions

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• 03 Feb 2010 02:11

  

  Some children would rather do hours of violin practice than discuss sex with their parents

  Roland White

  Wednesday February 3, 2010

  • Gordon Brown aims to end first-past-the-post voting, but not yet

  

  Exclusive:Tories plan leadership revolution at the BBC

  

  Chairman will be first casualty in a shake-up of the corporation if the Conservatives win the next general election

  • COMMENT: Separation of powers

  • IN DEPTH: BBC Trust 'living on borrowed time'

  Churches win fight over discrimination

  

  Equalities Minister will no longer demand amendment to stop religious groups discriminating on recruitment

  • NEW: Thousands sign petition against visit

  • ANALYSIS: attack on equality misses point

  Detroit bomber giving FBI 'useful intelligence'

  FBI following up 'actionable and current intelligence' from failed Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

  • A former London student's journey to jihad

  • Would-be bomber radicalised while at UCL

  Jackson doctor 'to face manslaughter charge'

  Dr Conrad Murray is expected to be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the coming days, according to reports

  • Michael Jackson's doctor goes back to work

  • Police raid home of Jackson's doctor

  

  Toe-curling: the tragedy of Britain's feet

  

  Who Dat?! Times backs the Saints

  

  Fans turn Terry into panto villain

  

  Corporal Riley was a legend, says Prince Harry

  Prince says he is “terribly sad” at the deaths in Afghanistan of former colleague Liam Riley and Lance Corporal Graham Shaw

  Fury as giant dam is approved in heart of Amazon

  Brazil has given the go-ahead for the controversial construction of a giant hydroelectric dam in the heart of the rainforest

  Plucky Brits and US stars bid for Oscars glory

  After Slumdog Millionaire, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth nominated, while Avatar receives nine nods

  Haiti

  

  Scientologists plan permanent base

  

  Toyota ordered to investigate Prius 'brake fault'

  Japan Government demands probe into claims of brake system failures in the hybrid favourite of Hollywood's green elite

  Credit Suisse payouts will escape bonus tax

  Senior executives in London will get multimillion-pound bonuses next month in a move that will lessen the tax blow

  BP blames US refineries for profits slide

  Oil refiner unveils weakest set of annual figures for six years and warns that recovery could take three or four years

  People in the UK oil business make much of the rivalry between BP and Shell

  

  Americans must raise £100m, says Purslow

  Liverpool co-owners have less than six months to secure £100 million investment or run risk of having to put club up for sale

  • Banks press owners on Liverpool debt

  • Hicks: Gillett can sell stake in Liverpool

  Ancelotti may give Terry time off from Chelsea

  Carlo Ancelotti said after draw at Hull that he is willing to give John Terry a break to solve his marriage problems

  Johnson stamps out Dallaglio scare stories

  Mathew Tait in team to face Wales as England team manager goes on the attack after criticism of his leadership

  Hull 1 Chelsea 1

  

  Hunt inspires another twist in the title race

  

  The future of the RAF

  ‘The Few’ are becoming fewer, but with a vital role still to play

  

  Remember Churchill when you think of Iraq

  If we had not invaded, what then? Our foreign policy now should depend, as in 1940, on assessing the risks of inaction

  • Daniel Finkelstein

  Failing out-of-hours care almost killed my baby

  In parts of the country one doctor is responsible for 300,000 people at night. I know just how dangerous that can be

  • Alice Thomson

  Cunning plan to become stinking rich

  Tokyo Notebook: become a jewel thief — it sounds good in theory

  • Leo Lewis

  

  

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  Cephalonia family sail holiday

  

  Couple who died with their adopted boy in Haiti

  When a couple travelled to Haiti to pick up their adopted son, but their dream turned to disaster

  The humble dog: man’s best-equipped friend

  In extracts from her new book, the American academic Alexandra Horowitz reveals the power of canine supersenses

  Get Kate Moss's grey hair

  Seriously. The supermodel’s silver streaks might have been an accident, but the look was big at recent couture shows

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  Luxury combat gear may sound like an oxymoron but it's the latest trend

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  The frock revolutionary

  The drag queen and gay rights campaigner Bette Bourne relives his life on stage in a show at London's Soho Theatre

  Van Doesburg saw the future; and it was square

  Tate Modern's thorny show might seem a maze of geometry but at its heart is the stunning vision of Theo van Doesburg

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• 01 Feb 2010 15:25

  

  I draw the line at being lectured on plastic overuse by a chuffing toy retailer

  Carol Midgely

  Monday February 1, 2010

  • Pope Benedict XVI confirms first state visit to UK

  

  • Ten missionaries accused of Haiti child-trafficking may face trial in US court

  Treasury loses as top earners dodge 50p tax

  

  Lord Myners warned that the Exchequer had 'significantly reduced' its estimate of revenue in the light of tax avoidance

  • Brown was warned from the start over 50p tax

  • Not yet safe to go back in the water

  ‘Slap on wrist’ for phosphorus officers

  

  Israel reprimands two senior army officers who were responsible for firing white phosphorus shells at a UN compound in Gaza

  • COMMENT: White Phosphorus

  • Reprimand 'unlikely to harm careers'

  Obama cancels flights to the Moon

  Education and defence are exempted from spending freeze designed to rein in record $1.6 trillion budget deficit

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• 30 Jan 2010 14:01

  

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