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The 40 million children who just didn't exist

One charity's campaign to register the births of all children in the developing world is transforming millions of young lives.

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War in Afghanistan: Not in our name

71% of Britons back IoS call for withdrawal of forces within a year

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British soldiers sexually abused us, claim Iraqis

Graphic torture allegations emerge as lawyer warns of hundreds of legal cases

Demand for illegal ivory soars in booming China

Twenty years after a worldwide ban, there's a new black-market trade in elephant tusks from Africa

Waterlow murder hunt police think suspect is still in Sydney

Australian police hunting the killer of a British art curator and his daughter said they had no reason to believe their prime suspect - named by sources as the victim's son - had left the country.

America's 'first Pacific president' woos China, North Korea, and Burma

US President Barack Obama pledged yesterday, in the first major speech of his extensive Asia tour, to deepen dialogue with China rather than seek to contain the rising power.