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Report on MPs' pay by end of year new

A Westminster sleaze watchdog will report on MPs pay and perks by the end of the year, it announced today following calls from party leaders for its investigation to be speeded up.

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Porn: A dirty little secret?

Joan Smith: Jacqui Smith is 'mortified'. But should a woman be ashamed of her husband watching adult movies?

Brown says vital for G20 to act together new

Britain calls on G20 leaders to supply "the oxygen of confidence" to save the world economy from recession.

Is this the soul leaving the body? Or the last, dreamlike act of a dying brain?

Near-death experiences: Heaven can wait

Roger Dobson: Tunnels, bright lights, visions of the deceased. Do near-death experiences really offer a glimpse of the afterlife?

UK troops begin Iraqi withdrawal new

Britain's forces transferred over coalition command of the Iraq province of Basra to the US today.

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Spring on Mars: warmer weather and lots of gas

Spring on Earth is marked by daffodils and budding leaves. However spring on Mars sees plumes of carbon dioxide vaporising from solid blocks of dry ice as they warm up in the sunlight towards the end of the Martian winter.

Jai ho! By the final run-though, even Alice-Azania Jarvis manages to do everything right. Well, almost

Keep fit the Bollywood way

Blame it on 'Slumdog Millionaire' – modern Indian dance is fast becoming the next big fitness trend. Alice-Azania Jarvis gets into the groove

<b>16. Queen Elizabeth II's headscarf:</b> I do love a headscarf and the Queen has worn one all her life; even while driving a tank. It's a fabulous design as it's a simple square of fabric, practical, disposable, yet individual. In the 1950s every housewife wore one.

Pandora: Her Majesty calls on Big Brother for a gift

Pandora very much doubts that the Queen harbours many an anti-establishment tendency – though the prospect is, rather delightfully, raised by news of her gift to the Mexican President: a copy of the classic dystopian novel, 1984.

Jarre shows off the Oscar he won for the score for 'A Passage to India' in 1985

Maurice Jarre: Composer who won three Oscars for his work with David Lean

Maurice Jarre, who won three Oscars – all for films by David Lean – was one of the last of the "silver-age" film composers, perhaps best known for scoring large-scale films but equally at home with more intimate fare.



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Dominic Lawson: MPs are like bankers...

... they love spending other people's money

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Mary Dejevsky: World leaders can make a difference

We have an example within living memory of leaders who acted at a crucial juncture

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Terence Blacker: We are enshrining right to be angry

There is something ugly about this surge in public virtue

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