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Feat of engineering: Incredible photographs show construction beneath New York's Second Avenue
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Charles Saatchi accepts caution for assault over incident in Scott’s restaurant when he put his hands on throat of wife Nigella Lawson
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Special Report: US troops are stationed in Japan to protect the nation. But to sex workers in Okinawa, they bring fear, not security
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Police examine photographs of Charles Saatchi with hand on Nigella Lawson's throat
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Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria
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Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
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Charles Saatchi accepts caution for assault over incident in Scott’s restaurant when he put his hands on throat of wife Nigella Lawson
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Anatomy of a waiter: Service staff spill the secrets of their trade
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Exclusive: Cristiano Ronaldo advised to stay at Real Madrid for another 18 months before making possible switch to Manchester United
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Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria
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Beards, brawn and body art
Meet London’s new batch of male models
Scandi-geeks descend on Nordicana for fan-convention
British love of shows such as The Bridge, Borgen and The Killing shows no sign of fading
The Great Green Wall of Africa,
Behind the rhetoric what is really being done to combat desertification?
Laughter Inc
The cheering growth of the chuckle industry
The bad science scandal
How fact-fabrication is damaging UK's global name for research
Female aristocrats battle to inherit the title
A passionate protest is gathering pace among the women of Britain's aristocracy, who believe that men should no longer automatically inherit the family pile and title.
In pictures: JFK's visit to Berlin in 1963
Photographer Ulrich Mack accompanied Kennedy on the entire trip. The results are an astonishing record of a watershed moment.
Mark Hix gets creative with English peas
English peas and their offsprings, such as mangetouts and sugar snaps, are great tossed into a salad, says our chef.
Chef Martin Morales: Ceviche with a smile
Morales has turned South America's elegant cuisine into one of London's hottest food trends
Incredible edible: Guerrilla gardeners
Holly Williams joins the volunteers who have turned a small town into a thriving community with a guerrilla gardening scheme that has provided a blueprint for sustainability.
Seasoned to taste: Food institutions
In an industry famed for short-lived success and pop-up pretenders, it takes something special to stick around.
Anatomy of a waiter: Staff spill their secrets
Next Sunday is the first ever National Waiters' Day. To celebrate, we share tales from the restaurant trenches by those in the front line.
Drink in the sun: The season's best wines
From complex English sparkling wine to juicy Sicilian reds...
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After 163 years India sends its final telegram -(Stop)-
Mobile phones and the internet have superseded the once-essential service
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