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A prom amid deep poverty in Booneville, Kentucky – in pictures
The residents of Owsley County, deep in Appalachian Kentucky, struggle with a lot of things: lack of jobs, drug addiction, poor health. Some 41.5% of its 5,000 people live below poverty level – one of...
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Letters: Keep the bus lanes for buses – and bikes
The chairman of a minicab firm considers it anticompetitive that taxis are permitted in London's bus lanes but that his own vehicles are not (Tory minicab donor fires first shot in battle of the bus...
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Letters: Ballet in Cambodia
Great to see the work being done by Stephen Bimson in Phnom Penh (Report, 24 April). But isn't it misleading to talk about "bringing ballet to Cambodia" and to suggest that "traditional folk dance" was...
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Letters: It was Hollande's victory not Le Pen's
What was it about the first-round French election results (Report, 24 April) that made the media turn a win by François Hollande into a triumph for Marine Le Pen? They virtually ignored her other...
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Shell makes £1.1bn Cove Energy bid
Oil company looks to take prime position in east African gas reserve market in face of competition from Asian firmsShell has edged ahead of Asian competition in the scramble for east Africa's gas...
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Nato's fuel-run truckers washed up on Karachi promenade
Drivers who run Taliban gauntlet on road to Afghanistan halted by retaliation for US killing of Pakistani troopsOn the fifth-floor balcony of an exclusive apartment block in Karachi, Iqbal Amlani...
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Europe's terrible blunder can be rectified. Remember 1931
The euro was a blood sacrifice to the Eurocrats' fanaticism. But Europe's democracy may save us from Europe's single currencyI write from America, where those who care about Europe ask one question...
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James Murdoch lifts the veil on News Corp's influence | Michael Wolff
The larger question for Leveson is whether this is how money and media always work, or just how the Murdochs operateWhat we learned on Tuesday at the Leveson inquiry …News Corporation is an aggressive,...
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Barack Obama slow-jams for student loans in appearance on Jimmy Fallon
The president's first appearance on Jimmy Fallon's late-night talk show is part of a two-day trip to woo the youth votePresident Barack Obama didn't play saxophone during his appearance on Late Night...
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The investment we all have in asteroid mining | Dan Gillmor
Whatever the sceptics think, humanity has no long-term future unless we think seriously about colonising spaceThe doubters are having a field day with Tuesday's announcement of a private venture,...
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Former BP engineer charged with destroying evidence in Gulf oil spill
Deepwater Horizon drilling engineer – the first to be charged in 2010 spill – allegedly deleted hundreds of text messagesThe US justice department has made the first arrest in connection with the Gulf...
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Is major league baseball more drug-free now? | Poll
The trial of Roger Clemens, who denies that he perjured himself when disavowing use of performance-enhancing drugs, has shone a spotlight again on the 'bad old days' when widespread steroid and HGH...
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Primark seeks eurozone expansion
George Weston, chief executive of parent company, says he is not deterred by fears of a long recessionPrimark is pressing ahead with expansion in the crisis hit eurozone as the cheap chic formula that...
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Kenyans allege British involvement in rendition and torture in Uganda
Claims by two Muslims accused of role in bomb attack during 2010 World Cup date from after coalition came to powerTwo men facing terrorism charges in east Africa are accusing the British government and...
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Primary day may be last hurrah for Newt Gingrich - the day in US politics
• Anticipating blowout wins, Romney plans major stump speech • All eyes on Gingrich as campaign vows he won't quit• Santorum plans TV appearance on top of Romney speech11am: The Republican presidential...
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Governments failing to avert catastrophic climate change, IEA warns
Ministers attending clean energy summit in London to be gravely warned about continuing global addiction to fossil fuelsGovernments are falling badly behind on low-carbon energy, putting carbon...
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Bradley Manning judge orders release of state documents
Colonel Denise Lind makes order to determine the level of damage to US from leak of state secrets to WikiLeaksA military judge has ordered the state department to release into her hands official...
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Obama calls disgraced secret service agents 'knuckleheads'
Obama says majority of secret service agents perform work admirably, blames bad behaviour on 'couple of knuckleheads'President Barack Obama has blamed a Colombian prostitution scandal engulfing the US...
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Romney sweeps five states and turns his focus to Obama
Mitt Romney seals nomination with victories in Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode IslandMitt Romney finally declared the Republican presidential race over on Tuesday night after...
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Republicans rally to Mitt Romney - as it happened
• Mitt Romney seals nomination with five primary wins• 'A better America begins tonight,' Romney declares• Newt Gingrich hints that he will end campaign soon• Barack Obama officially wins Democratic...
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