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Gordon Brown is still six weeks away from his first anniversary as Britain’s prime minister, a job he hankered after so keenly during much of the 10 years he served as chancellor of the Exchequer and Tony Blair’s No. 2 that the two men ended...
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Leading politicians from the three main parties are putting pressure on the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, to halt the disappearance from care of hundreds of suspected victims of child trafficking.
The Guardian revealed last month that more than 400...
So, why are the Kenyan roads bad?” an international journalist posed. The gentleman had travelled on our roads, those of Somalia, Rwanda, Congo and Uganda and he wanted to get some Africa bad roads 101 from me! Guess my answer? Our roads are bad...
The fair-trade banana has become a staple in the well-meaning fruit bowl of life. Sales of fair-trade coffee are booming in Starbucks, and rumour has it that Coldplay’s Chris Martin is shortly to take delivery of a fairly traded 4×4, one...
Fitting in with the local culture is often the most difficult of tasks when traveling. But if you’re a young adult headed to Europe this summer, acting like a European might only entail living up to frat party standards. According to a study...
It is not the sort of appointment Gordon Brown would make to his cabinet.
But then Mr Brown is no Silvio Berlusconi, playboy and man of ostentatious political gestures.
The Italian prime minister, long known for his fondness for pretty women, has...
As Israel toasts its 60th anniversary in the coming weeks, rejoicing in Jewish national rebirth and democratic values, the Arabs who make up 20 percent of its citizens will not be celebrating. Better off and better integrated than ever in their history,...
If ever the substance of that cliché - where East meets West - is to be thoroughly understood, one place to start is in the Shanghai of the 1920s and 1930s.
The city was often called the Paris of the East, but before Lynn Pan’s brilliant book,...
Rebecca Hosking’s moment, when a happy English farm girl cried tears that changed her life, came on a speck of sugar-white beach in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
“All you could smell was death,” Hosking recalled, sitting snugly in...
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