Revealed

Scandal of Britain's fruit-farm workers

Exclusive: Bulgarians are flown to Britain, live in packed caravan compounds and pocket just £45 a week to pick fruit for Britain's biggest retailers.

Fruit pickers: 'The money we earn is not worth getting out of bed for'

There are claims that cannabis can rescue California from financial crisis

Smoke dope and save the state of California, dude

Activists fund TV ads that claim legalising drug could solve financial crisis

One child in Britain 'is killed like Baby Peter every week'

A study reveals how signs of violence and abuse are routinely missed by GPs, social workers and police. Cahal Milmo reports on Britain's betrayed children.

The families driven apart by Israel's red tape

Donald Macintyre: New regulations are making it increasingly difficult for Palestinians from Gaza to see their relatives in the West Bank.

G8 leaders and heads of the five fastest developing market economies
greet Barack Obama in L'Aquila yesterday

Obama plans nuclear talks to lift threat of proliferation

Britain insists £25bn Trident programme 'not on the table' in March meeting

UN chief: G8 must go further on emissions

Yard rules out inquiry as hacking row simmers on

Recriminations fly after allegations that News of the World phone-hacking targeted thousands of phones.

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Breast cancer screening blamed for 'false alarms'

Thousands of women undergoing unnecessary treatment, researchers say

Secret to a longer life lies on Easter Island

Scientists have found an anti-ageing drug that works on mice – and could do the same for humans

Beckinsale accepts libel payout

The actress Kate Beckinsale accepted £20,000 libel damages from Express Newspapers yesterday over a claim that she had been passed over for her dream role as Barbarella.

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A model presents a creation by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier during 2009/2010 Autumn-Winter Haute Couture collection show in Paris

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50,000 students could miss out on university

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Steven Wells: Journalist celebrated for his 'ranting poetry' and iconoclastic pop writing

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