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Forget cuts and keep spending, Brown told

Sean O'Grady: Fiscal stimulus is more important than reducing deficit, says Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.

Enron by Lucy Prebble at the Royal COurt

Royal Court renaissance

Arifa Akbar: Fifteen nominations at the Laurence Olivier Awards are a tribute to the theatre's radicalism.

PM faces Labour revolt over vote reform

Gordon Brown is braced for a Labour rebellion today against moves to scrap the first-past-the-post voting system.

Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, arrives at court in LA yesterday

Final act of Jackson drama begins in LA

Guy Adams: Doctor pleads not guilty to manslaughter as full autopsy report is released on internet.

'This is the pinnacle of my life. Now I can die'

Rupert Cornwell: Super Bowl win was more than just sport for post-Katrina New Orleans.

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The Statement from the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, was suitably sober and contrite. "Commander Ali Dizaei has been a police officer for nearly 25 years," he wrote. "It is extremely disappointing and concerning that this very senior officer has been found guilty of abusing his position and power."

Looks could kill: Uma Thurman as Medusa and Logan Lerman as the half-god, half-human hero, Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson: Gods and monsters

Chris Columbus had huge hits with Harry Potter and Home Alone. Will lightning strike again with his new boy hero, Percy Jackson? Nev Pierce reports

The study found that people with a damaged amygdala had a higher inclination to risk losing money as a result of reckless gambling

Genetic disorder turns risk-averse into gamblers

The brains of people who risk everything when gambling may be wired up differently to those of the naturally cautious, according to a study that appears to have discovered a neurological basis for reckless behaviour.

A phone that translates 6,000 languages in real time, really?

Google is getting all futuristic on us with plans to implement Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-worthy mobile phone translation software in the next generation of telecommunications gadgets.

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Students to miss out as university applications soar

A record number of students applied for university places this year but unions warned funding cuts would leave many disappointed.

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Sir John Dankworth: Saxophonist who pioneered modern jazz in Britain and became a patron of music education

One of the first British musicians to grasp the fundamentals of "modern" (post swing) jazz, the saxophonist Johnny Dankworth eventually surpassed his bandleading days to become a skilled composer of film music, a prominent patron of the arts and head of a burgeoning musical dynasty.


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Mary Dejevsky: Ukraine is throwing off Cold War shackles

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