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Ten thousand prisoners are to be released, posing questions about why they were incarcerated. President Emomali Rakhmon of Tajikistan has announced an amnesty that could free half the country's prison population Photo: EPA... [read full story]
It's a little-known - and slightly ironic - fact that when Lehman Brothers exploded last year it did so as the proud owner of 500,000 pounds of yellowcake uranium: enough to make a nuclear bomb. Uranium’s appeal was as a...
Normal service was resumed at Old Trafford, but not before Sir Alex Ferguson had likened Manchester United's unhealthy knack of wasting chances this season to missing a bus. Another one goes begging: Owen beats Sylvain Distain,...
Silvio Berlusconi faces damaging new disclosures about his private life this week with the publication of the memoirs of a former escort who claims she slept with the Prime Minister and recorded the encounter.
Departmental wrangling over "feed-in tariffs" scuppers Ed Miliband's aim to have policy in place by Copenhagen summit Ed Miliband's hopes of having a key government policy on renewable energy in place before the Copenhagen...
