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Met to probe MI5 over torture claims new

Officers are to investigate allegations by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed that MI5 officers were complicit in his torture.

Romanians leave south Belfast in June after being forced out by racist groups

'Get out – or you die' new

That was the chilling message delivered to Belfast’s immigrant population. David McKittrick reports on racism that continues to scar Northern Ireland

Man killed and Briton hurt in Pamplona bull run

A Madrid runner became the first person to be gored to death at the event in nearly 15 years.

Colin Hendry and his wife Denise, who died on Thursday from an infection after undergoing surgery to correct a botched liposuction procedure

Ex-football star's wife dies after botched surgery new

Jerome Taylor : Denise Hendry never fully recovered from operation

Tories may sacrifice Africa for climate change fight new

Andrew Grice and Michael Savage: Warning from campaigners over Conservative plans to rethink Britain’s aid budget

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Migrant workers walk near Leominster, Herefordshire

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Jerome Taylor: Bulgarians are flown to Britain, live in packed caravan compounds and pocket just £45 a week to pick fruit for our biggest retailers, an investigation by The Independent has found.

Flintoff is frustrated by Australia

Australia take Ashes lead  new

Australia were today setting their sights on a major first-innings lead in the opening Ashes Test after overcoming the loss of three quick wickets to frustrate England's efforts.

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Chris Boardman: 'I just didn't have enough testosterone for the Tour'

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View from the top: Aidan Gillen as Gus in 'Freefall'.

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From 'Queer as Folk' to 'The Wire', Aidan Gillen is an actor who refuses to be typecast. Next up, he plays a high-flying City boy in 'Freefall', the BBC's new credit crisis drama.

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, (left) chats with Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft.

Google OS will be 'game changer,' says Schmidt

Eric Schmidt spent his first six years as Google's CEO resisting a push by the company's co-founders to develop their own operating system for personal computers.

50,000 students could miss out on university

Almost 50,000 potential students could be denied a place at university this year due to a sudden rise in the number of applications.

The ranter: Wells performs at a gig during the 1981 Right to Work - Jobs Not Yops [Youth Employment Programme] campaign in London,
at which he appeared with Attila the Stockbroker and the Jam

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

Few cancer memoirs have happy endings. Nine days before his death from enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma, the British journalist and pop, sport and political polemicist Steven Wells wrote his last column for the Philadelphia Weekly.


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Terence Blacker: The true driving force is cash

The realities behind the energy debate

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