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Chechen President hits back over claim he ordered activist's murder
Kadyrov plans to sue Natalaya Estemirova's human rights group
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French bistros gobble tax break meant for diners
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Hefty VAT cut has not led to cheaper meals for customers
Three men held over 'sex tape blackmail' of heiress
Saturday, 18 July 2009
German police arrested three men suspected of attempting to blackmail Susanne Klatten, the country's wealthiest woman, by claiming they had a secret video of her affair with a Swiss gigolo, prosecutors said.
A searing indictment of Putin's protegé
Friday, 17 July 2009
A report by Natalya Estemirova, murdered in Chechnya as she investigated human rights abuses.
Can anyone stop Blair becoming the first president of Europe?
Friday, 17 July 2009
Andrew Grice: Former PM is strong favourite to be given job – if he can demonstrate that he wants it.
BMW heiress victim of new sex blackmail
Friday, 17 July 2009
German police arrested three men suspected of attempting to blackmail Susanne Klatten, the country's wealthiest woman, by claiming they had a secret video of her affair with a Swiss gigolo, prosecutors said today.
Catholic Church wakes up to the wisdom of Wilde
Friday, 17 July 2009
The Vatican's official newspaper praises the homosexual writer for being "an aesthete and a lover of the ephemeral"
Pope leaves hospital after breaking wrist
Friday, 17 July 2009
Pope Benedict XVI has left the hospital where he underwent surgery after breaking his right wrist in a fall in his Alpine vacation chalet.
Swaggering bully in a sky-blue tracksuit
Friday, 17 July 2009
Ramzan Kadyrov's first response to his father's assassination in May 2004 was to travel to the Kremlin to meet Vladimir Putin. In bizarre televised images at the end of the tête-è-tête, Mr Putin offered the young, ginger-bearded Chechen – the first person ever to turn up to the Kremlin in a sky-blue tracksuit – his condolences and squeezed his hand.
Mourners ask: 'Who will answer for this? Who will be next?'
Friday, 17 July 2009
Mourners at Natalya Estemirova's funeral pointed the finger of blame at Chechnya's pro-Kremlin leader.
Brown formally backs Blair as candidate for 'President of Europe'
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Post will be created as early as January once the Treaty of Lisbon is ratified
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1 Exclusive: The unseen photographs that throw new light on the First World War
2 The Vatican wakes up to the wisdom of Oscar Wilde
3 Three men held over 'sex tape blackmail' of heiress
4 French bistros gobble tax break meant for diners
5 World's oldest mother dies, leaving her two-year-old twin sons orphaned
6 From beyond the grave: A searing indictment of Putin's protegé
7 Can anyone stop Blair becoming the first president of Europe?
8 Oligarch pays for party that enraged Putin
9 Brown formally backs Blair as candidate for 'President of Europe'
10 Chechen President hits back over claim he ordered activist's murder
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1 The Vatican wakes up to the wisdom of Oscar Wilde
2 Exclusive: The unseen photographs that throw new light on the First World War
3 Chechen President hits back over claim he ordered activist's murder
4 Can anyone stop Blair becoming the first president of Europe?
5 From beyond the grave: A searing indictment of Putin's protegé
6 Three men held over 'sex tape blackmail' of heiress
7 €400bn energy plan to harness African sun
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• Terence Blacker: The new British way of mourning
A whiff of mass sentimentality adorned some of the scenes this week.
• Howard Jacobson: We could all do with Johnson's chicken feed
That throwaway line is fatuous, distasteful, contemptuous and cruel.
• Christina Patterson: Why I love self-help books
Don’t you love the exclamation marks? I love the perkiness and the confidence.
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