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The coffin of Lance Corporal Dane Elson, who was killed in Afghanistan, at RAF Lyneham yesterday

Afghanistan: This bloody war

Five British soldiers were killed yesterday in a devastating roadside bombing, the largest number to die in one single attack, bringing to eight the number killed in the most deadly 24 hours of the Afghan campaign.

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President Obama, his daughters Malia and Sasha and his wife Michelle arrive in Accra, Ghana, to a heroes welcome last night

'We want him to rule all African countries'

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Richard Dowden in Ghana reports on the frenzy generated by President Barack Obama's visit.

Gordon Brown hailed Colonel Muammar Gaddafi as an example to other world leaders yesterday because he had renounced nuclear weapons

G8 admits its failure to meet Gleneagles aid pledges

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Campaigners say rich nations are $15bn short of their $50bn target.

Olympic shopping centre struggles to attract retailers

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Only three anchor tenants have so far signed up to 300-unit centre in Stratford

Kiraly, talks with fellow Hungarian refugees Jozsef Kovago, the mayor of Budapest during the uprising, and Anna Kethly, a former foreign minister, before testifying to the UN Investigating Committee in New York in January 1957

Bela Kiraly: Soldier who led Hungarian resistance against the Soviet Union during the 1956 uprising

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Major-General Bela Kiraly was 39 years old when he was sentenced to death by Hungary's Communist authorities at the beginning of 1952.

Stephen Foley: Helicoptor's blades may not cut it

Saturday, 11 July 2009

US Outlook: It is the political parlour game of the summer on Wall Street and in Washington, handicapping Ben Bernanke's chances of a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Lord Ashcroft's lavish bankrolling of the Conservative Party has earned the gratitude of successive Tory leaders including William Hague and David Cameron

Ashcroft to be banned from giving more money to Tories

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Straw backs change in law that would deprive Conservative Party of vital source of funding

Phone hacking allegations are irresponsible, says Wade

Saturday, 11 July 2009

News International says accusations are untrue and misleading the public.

David Cameron thinks that Canada can show us how to slash public debt. Is he right?

Saturday, 11 July 2009

As a younger Gordon Brown was bolting the New in front of Labour in the mid-Nineties, he made frequent schoolboyish field trips across the Atlantic to study the slick campaign and policy lessons from Bill Clinton's victories in the US. This is the stuff of opposition, to learn from those who have blazed a trail you want to follow – and also to lodge in the public consciousness back home the idea that, yes, you are destined to follow them.

Thousands of victims still to be identified 14 years after Srebrenica

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Anniversary marked with burial of 500 men / Ethnic tension persists in Serb-dominated town

Feeling low on energy? Have a bath in a barrel of crude oil

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Azerbaijan has found a therapeutic use for its excess supply of oil. Louis Imbert reports from Baku

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