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Cameron and the EU: Britain's phoney war | Editorial
Even after 70 years, it doesn't take much to get the British press to refight the second world warEven after 70 years, it doesn't take much to get the British press to refight the second world war. So,...
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Spain's king blocks scandal-hit son-in-law from royal duties
Iñaki Urdangarin agrees to step aside while investigation into alleged fraud and misuse of public funds continuesIn an unprecedented move to clean up an increasingly tarnished reputation, Spain's royal...
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Climate change: ambition gap | Editorial
What was nearly a complete failure to agree even to go on trying to agree became instead a plan about a planThere are times when inching forward can look like progress. The slender eight-clause...
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Downton Abbey's Matthew Crawley to be Booker judge
Man Booker judges' panel to be chaired by Sir Peter StothardActor Dan Stevens, best known as Downton Abbey's Matthew Crawley – the war hero consigned to a wheelchair for life before making an abrupt...
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In praise of … non-trivial pursuits | Editorial
The Higgs boson is a theoretical entity of the kind that scientists like to call non-trivial. It is the thing that makes matter massiveThe Higgs boson is a theoretical entity of the kind that...
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Sherlock Holmes: a Game of Shadows – review
A rousing bit of slash-fiction that occasionally feels more indebted to Flashman or Bond than Sir Arthur Conan DoyleShould you require an antidote to the bloat and lethargy of Christmas, you could do a...
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Proton beam radiotherapy machines to be introduced in NHS
Machines can target cancer cells with precision not currently possible on National Health ServiceThe government is to spend up to £150m on three new state-of-the-art proton beam radiotherapy machines,...
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Indian billionaire Ravi Ruia charged over mobile licences
Investigation into alleged corruption in India's mobile telecoms sector widensRavikant Ruia, the Indian billionaire, former Vodafone business partner and chairman of London blue chip stock Essar...
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Modern Warfare 3 hits the $1bn mark in record time
The latest game in the Call of Duty franchise reaches $1bn in sales just 16 days after releaseIt took James Cameron just 17 days to take $1bn (£640m) at the box office with his 3D blue-skinned aliens...
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Could Mikhail Prokhorov be the man to take on Vladimir Putin? | David Hearst
Russia's third richest man could have seen an opportunity – or it could just be a move to give the illusion of oppositionOn paper, Mikhail Prokhorov has everything it takes to give Vladimir Putin a run...
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NHS reform plans for London could put lives at risk, warns thinktank
King's Fund says government making mistake by handing NHS budgets to GPs without any body having oversightA "leadership vacuum" caused by the government's plans for the health service puts lives at...
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Age of criminal responsibility is too low, say brain scientists
Parts of the brain responsible for decision-making and impulse control are still developing during a person's teensThe age of criminal responsibility in England, Wales and Northern Ireland could be...
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Family of dead Chinese protester dispute heart attack claim
Official explanation of Xue Jinbo's death in police custody dismissed by relatives, who believe he was beaten to deathThe family of a Chinese protester who died in police detention have rejected...
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Hezbollah names CIA spies in Lebanon
Militant group steps up campaign against US intelligence agency by revealing identities of 10 undercover officers in TV broadcastHezbollah has revealed the identities of CIA officers working undercover...
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Iran rejects US calls for return of spy drone
Defence minister demands apology from Washington for invading Iranian airspace and says plane is now its propertyIran has rejected US calls for the return of a spy drone captured by its military and...
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Pakistani police rescue 54 students chained up in madrasa basement
Pupils say they were tortured and barely fed in the Zakariya school on the outskirts of KarachiPolice in the Pakistani city of Karachi have rescued 54 students from the basement of an Islamic seminary,...
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Russian editor fired over anti-Putin jibe
Alisher Usmanov axes Kommersant Vlast editor-in-chief after magazine publishes photos insulting PMThe editor of a prominent Russian magazine has been fired after publishing a photograph containing an...
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Brazil warns of humanitarian crisis as Haitians arrive in their thousands
Migrants make dangerous journey looking for work but they arrive to find squalid camps and no legal statusHuman rights activists and politicians in the Brazilian Amazon have warned of an imminent...
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From the archive, 13 December 1923: The gospels of Shaw and Wells
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 13 December 1923Mr. St. John Ervine lectured in the Albert Hall, Manchester, last night on the religious beliefs of Mr. G. B. Shaw and Mr. H. G....
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