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Frozen Planet's polar bear footage was standard practice, claims BBC
Corporation says shots of newborn cubs in wildlife centre, rather than their natural habitat, were 'editorially and ethically justified'The BBC has denied misleading viewers in its Frozen Planet series...
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Leeds-Bradford airport spends £11 million on terminal improvements
But the £2 drop-off fee stays and the forecourt isn't going to be snazzy for a while yetRecession or not, Leeds-Bradford airport is spending £11 million on improving its terminal high on a hill north...
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Occupy aims to shut down West Coast ports - live coverage
Occupy is bidding to shut down America's west coast ports in support of an ongoing International Longshore Workers Union battle. Picket lines are expected in Oakland, Los Angeles, Portland and more –...
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EU veto 'no threat to coalition'
Danny Alexander defends coalition partners' right to disagree as Labour's David Miliband lambasts PM for 'achieving nothing'The chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, has said the EU veto...
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The pirates of YouTube
The real villains of YouTube are the multinational companies cashing in on public domain footage they claim is their ownWhen you hear about "piracy" in connection to YouTube, perhaps you think of the...
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Lehman Brothers: financially and morally bankrupt | Richard Wolff
The lesson of Lehman Brothers' failures of fiduciary duty is that large-scale lending should not be entrusted to private banksLast week, federal court Judge James M Peck approved the final phase of the...
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German neo-Nazi group's landlord arrested
Prosecutors say the man helped the far-right extremists who are believed to be responsible for killing at least 10 peopleGerman police have arrested another suspected supporter of the neo-Nazi terror...
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Syria holds elections amid crackdown
• Clashes between Syrian defectors and army spread• Low turn-out expected in local vote as opposition calls for boycott• Speculation of Homs assault mounts ahead of 'deadline'• Read the latest...
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Eurozone crisis live: Italian debt costs climb as S&P summit verdict due
• S&P decision on eurozone downgrades awaited• Italy raises €7bn in debt auction as bond yields soar• Greece begins talks on new bailout package• Italian unions to stage three-hour strike in...
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Politics Live blog: David Cameron's Commons statement on Europe
• Lunchtime summary3.39pm: Cameron says the new agreement will mean eurozone countries losing powers to an unprecedented degree. Some will have their budgets rewritten for them.Cameron says talks are...
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Dagestan newspaper chief shot dead
Masked killer fired 14 rounds at Khadzhimurad Kamalov as he left his newspaper's office in MakhachkalaThe prominent founder of an independent newspaper in the volatile Dagestan republic has been shot...
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Three dead after clashes at Cairo sit-in
• Security forces try to evict protest outside cabinet building• Outrage in Bahrain as police handcuff and drag woman activistAt least three people are thought to have been shot dead in Cairo amid...
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Bradley Manning hearing – live updates
• Pre-trial hearing gets under way at Forte Meade, Maryland• Manning accused of leaking military secrets to Wikileaks• Judge rejects defence petition to step down over 'bias'• At Forte Meade: Ed...
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The harsh reality is that the EU has already failed | Deborah Orr
Only the fear of disorderly and unpredictable collapse is keeping alive the vestiges of its grand ambitionsThere are moments – usually when I'm in a busy, public place that is dominated by a giant...
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Christopher Hitchens, defined | Ana Marie Cox
Hitchens was warm, not caustic, in person, and his ability to shatter an argument was matched by his generosity to peopleI was mugged walking home from Christopher Hitchens's apartment, just a few days...
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Bad Santa: your pictures of harrowing mall encounters
Send us your best pictures of creepy Santas and miserable tots and we'll feature our favourites in this galleryAnyone with a child knows that taking junior to the mall to be photographed with Saint...
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Britney Spears engaged to boyfriend Jason Trawick
Message on Twitter and celebrity media reports indicate Britney Spears has accepted marriage proposalBritney Spears is engaged to her boyfriend Jason Trawick, according to media reports. The singer...
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Bradley Manning hearing: defence lawyer turns fire on military accusers
On first day of preliminary hearing, investigating officer rejects defence's demand that he recuse himselfEighteen months after his arrest in Iraq for allegedly orchestrating the largest leak of state...
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The Lost Word by Oya Baydar - review
A welcome spotlight shone on Turkey's Kurdish warSnow, the 2002 novel by Turkey's Nobel literature laureate Orhan Pamuk, was set in north-eastern Anatolia in the 1990s, as war with secessionist Kurds...
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Light reading: the illuminated manuscripts of the dark ages
In the digital age we should look back in wonder at illuminated manuscripts: medieval Europe produced some of the most moving images of readers and reading that existFrancesca da Rimini's beauty and...
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