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Aug 25 2009
Nearly 400 sixth-formers were given places at a leading university - only for them to be retracted or have the conditions changed, it has emerged. Teenagers told how their elation turned to despair after two separate blunders by Exeter University....
Aug 3 2009
Rabble-rouser Anjem Choudary’s cohorts accused British troops of wiping out the civilian population in Afghanistan and said it was Her Majesty’s fault because she is “the head of this country”.
Jul 28 2009
A “deeply religious” man hacked off the head of his next-door neighbour and put it in a wheelie bin after he heard voices telling him to protect his toddler son, a court heard today. Eric Cruz, 32, who has paranoid schizophrenia, launched...
Jul 17 2009
The abductions in Chechnya started nearly a decade ago. In 2000, Russian forces took control of practically the entire territory of the republic, and started extensive mop-up operations in villages. Thousands of murders and abductions took place; these...
Jul 17 2009
Their mother, Susan, and stepfather Kevin, managed to escape from the house with six other children. The fire tore through the property in Openshaw, Manchester, at around 5.20am. Carly died shortly after the blaze. Jordan and John, who were both said...
Jun 22 2009
During the student uprisings of May 1968, the Franco-German, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, was known as Danny the Red, but now he is Danny the Green, and he has directed and ridden the suddenly fashionable political wave of environmentalism into considerable...
Jun 13 2009
BY conventional lights, the Rev. Mitro Repo’s candidacy for the European Parliament never should have succeeded. As a Finnish Orthodox priest, he was bucking his superiors, who have strict rules about the mixing of politics and piety. As a Social...
Jun 12 2009
So many questions. How did Silvio Berlusconi and Colonel Gaddafi become friends in the first place? Even more pressingly, how did Muammar Gaddafi - expeller of Libyan Italians, aggressive-wearer of sandals, unelected thug, deployer of hit squads,...
Jun 11 2009
Thousands of patients are dying unnecessarily because hospital doctors are missing the signs of kidney failure, a national inquiry reports today. Half of people who die from acute kidney injury (AKI) do not receive a good standard of care because of...
Jun 3 2009
The Prince of Wales will represent Britain at this weekend’s D-Day 65th anniversary commemorations after he stepped in at the 11th hour to demand an invitation from the French. The dramatic U-turn came just five days after Buckingham Palace admitted...