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G20 leaders on brink of $1tn rescue deal new

G20 leaders made headway today on tackling the world's financial crisis, with possible deals to give more money to the IMF and clamp down on tax havens.

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'All 16 killed' in North Sea helicopter crash new

Police say that everyone on the helicopter that went down off Scotland's north-east coast was killed.

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Hamilton did not lie, says his team boss new

McLaren defended the F1 world champion after he was stripped of his third place at the Australian Grand Prix for misleading race stewards.

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Police raided two "squats" today linked to violence at the G20 protests. Eighty people were detained at the addresses in east London, Scotland Yard said.

British officials claimed that Nicolas Sarkozy (bottom left) and Angela Merkel (bottom right) are playing to their domestic audience

G20: Deal? Or no deal?

Andrew Grice: Brown and Obama claim to be on brink of global accord for 'recovery and reform'. Sarkozy and Merkel insist on tough rules to give 'capitalism a conscience'

Terry to the rescue after England fail to impress

England 2 Ukraine 1: As John Terry ran to the corner flag in celebration of his winning goal it was tempting to think that this latest England break had begun with a minor theft and ended with a major one.

No boost to spending as Britons pay off mortgage

Sean O'Grady: Households are reversing the trend that saw many consumers using their homes as "cash machines" to fund spending

Aristotle believed the sex of a child was linked to the man's ardour at the time of insemination

The equatorial enigma: Why are more girls than boys born in the Tropics – and what does it mean?

Aristotle once suggested that the sex of a child was determined by the ardour of the man at the time of insemination, whereas other ancient Greek philosophers thought that it had something to do with the left and right sides of the body.

The Big Question: What are national parks, and why do we have so many of them?

Study finds 6,000 rare Irrawaddy dolphins off Bangladesh

An oil painting of George Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson

The madness of George Frideric Handel

The composer was notorious for his love of food. But new research suggests his greed was the consequence of a pathological condition

Andrew Keen: The new culture wars new

Give me Twitter or give me death says a skeptical Ian Brown in the Globe and Mail. But rather than death, Brown actually discovers a new culture war via Twitter

Faffing about on Facebook? Good work new

Internet-surfing workers relax: employees who regularly sneak a peek at Facebook or shop online during office hours could actually be boosting their productivity.

Spotify takes on iTunes

Tim Walker: Latest sensation signs a ground-breaking deal to start selling songs as well as playing them

Imperial College goes international

London's Imperial College aims to be the first leading British university to set up a campus abroad. Sir Roy Anderson, its new rector, tells Lucy Hodges why the Gulf region is the ideal place

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Cable has refused to criticise Barack Obama despite the President's costly entourage

Pandora: Vince turns a blind eye to Obama circus

The peculiar paradox of Obama's credit-crunch-busting entourage appears lost on the upper echelons of the Liberal Democrats. Or, if not lost, then studiously ignored (Pandora suspects the latter).

Parkes was quick and strong, he never shirked a physical challenge and he was also ahead of his time in that he enjoyed an occasional foray into opposition territory

Harry Parkes: Reliable and tenacious Aston Villa full-back

Harry Parkes's prowess as one of the best uncapped English full-backs did not represent anything like his full value to his only professional club, Aston Villa, in the decade following the Second World War.

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