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The former PM is said to be furious that his reputation could be 'shredded' during the inquiry

Iraq: The war was illegal

Then Attorney General Goldsmith was 'pinned to the wall and bullied into keeping quiet' while the Prime Minister kept the Cabinet in the dark.

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KPMG lined up in $30bn Dubai rescue mission

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Big name banks have lined up KPMG, the big four accountant, to salvage more than $30bn (£18bn) that they lent to Dubai World, the emirate's failing flagship global investor.

Tajori prepares food. Her husband, Gul Saeed, was one of six policemen shot dead by the Taliban

The Taliban are being routed, but at a terrible price

Sunday, 29 November 2009

The IoS Christmas Appeal: The West applauded the crackdown by Pakistan's army, but many have lost everything.

Ronnie Cadwallader, 76, (pictured with his wife Anne) was exposed to asbestos as a welder and metal-worker, and was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the end of 2007

Lost or missing insurance policies leave asbestos victims without compensation

Sunday, 29 November 2009

The industry's own scheme is supposed to track down missing details that would help claims. It has failed in its task in half of the cases

A Russian police officer guards a damaged coach at the site of a train derailment near the town of Uglovka

Home-made bomb derails Russian express, killing 26

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Death toll expected to rise, as police search for men who planted device on Moscow-St Petersburg track

Kip Chillingworth, 22, from north London, was diagnosed with epilepsy when he was five years old

The export of prescription medicines

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Exclusive: Watchdog ready to warn manufacturers and wholesalers that they face possible legal action.

Afghan police officers stand guard near the site of a small explosion in Kabul yesterday

Afghanistan: The hokey-cokey strategy

Sunday, 29 November 2009

On eve of Obama's surge, Brown aims to convince voters he has a plan for withdrawal.

Hazira Bee, 53, lives in one of the worst affected areas. The leakage blighted her entire family: one son has spent his life in and out of hospital; all her children missed their education, leaving her as the sole breadwinner

Bhopal: The victims are still being born

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Twenty-five years on, the world's worst industrial accident continues to kill and blight many lives. And still there's been no trial

Lee Hall at the National Theatre, where his play 'The Pitmen Painters' about the aspirations of ordinary men has started a new run

Lee Hall: 'Cambridge taught me I was short'

Sunday, 29 November 2009

The 'Billy Elliot' writer was raised on Brecht, Marx and Shakespeare – but he still found people looked down on him when he went off to university.

Belize PM warns Cameron about role for Ashcroft

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Barrow: My government is in 'state of war' with peer

Posters of the far-right Swiss People's Party depicting a woman wearing a burqa against a background of a Swiss flag with several minarets. It reads in French 'Stop - Yes to the ban on minarets'

Swiss voters back minaret construction ban  new

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Swiss voters have approved a proposal to ban new minarets, initial projections showed today.

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