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Boxing: Level on points after the insults, but Adrien Broner should beat Gavin Rees in ring
Saturday 16 February 2013
Welshman promises to silence “disrespectful” American – but the odds are heavily against him
It’s now accepted that learning has to be profitable to be valid
Tuesday 12 February 2013
Sussex University has decided to go private - and the students aren't happy
A hammer blow for French Communists
Monday 11 February 2013
The old phrase “workers of the world, unite thee” is looking a bit stale this week.
'We believe the EU is stronger with the UK's involvement': Joe Biden to discuss referendum worries with David Cameron
Tuesday 05 February 2013
The US Vice President, Joe Biden, is in London today for a working lunch with David Cameron, on the last day of a tour of European capitals.
Spanish corruption scandal further dents support for Rajoy government
Monday 04 February 2013
Spain's opposition Socialist Party called yesterday for the resignation of the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, over a corruption scandal as a poll showed the lowest support on record for his centre-right People's Party (PP).
The women who changed Britain forever
Sunday 03 February 2013
Veteran campaigners will gather today to tell how the act of protest transformed their lives
Super Bowl: San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver sorry for anti-gay remarks during media day
Thursday 31 January 2013
Culliver was talking in the build-up to this weekend's showpiece event
African Cup of Nations: Ramos strikes late to put debutants Cape Verde into the quarter-finals
Sunday 27 January 2013
Angola beaten 2-1 by Cape Verde
Mark Jones: The last place you want to be – the hotel business centre
Sunday 27 January 2013
The hotel tour is one of the small inconveniences of the travel professional's life. For 30 minutes you trudge in a group from floor to floor, room to room, trying to think of something polite to say. ("And here is the bedside table." "Yes … it is.")
club want new fourth tier
Friday 25 January 2013
Macclesfield Town chief executive Jon Harris has asked the Football League to consider establishing two new regionalised League Two divisions, including the strongest of the sides in the Blue Square Premier.
Real Madrid move quickly to deny stars demanded Jose Mourinho sacking
Friday 25 January 2013
The Real Madrid president, Florentino Perez, has angrily denied a report in Marca saying there was a rift between coach Jose Mourinho and club captains Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos. The two Spain internationals backed Perez and Mourinho with a separate statement on the club's website, denying the newspaper's story of a "him or us" ultimatum.
I wanna eat you all up! Why pictures of cute animals could make us feel violent
Thursday 24 January 2013
Researchers claim to have found a link between cuteness and aggression
Chalk Talk: Teachers find it's even grimmer up north
Wednesday 23 January 2013
To the North of England Education Conference in Sheffield last week – a quaint little ritual whereby the great and the good in the world of education gather in January in one of the areas of the country most likely to be snowbound.
Bishop of Liverpool launches scathing attack on Government cuts programme
Friday 18 January 2013
'Social diabetes' warning offered to cities hit hardest by budget changes
- 1 Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
- 2 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 3 Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
- 4 Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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