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Army must recruit more than 100,000 soldiers to continue Afghan fighting

MPs' attack provokes the wrath of Murdoch

Seminal report by Culture Select Committee outlines major changes to press regulation and libel laws.

Jo Glanville: Unanimous backing for real freedom of the press

Brown is the PM of negative growth, says Osborne

George Osborne will today accuse Gordon Brown of becoming the first prime minister to preside over a slide in the size of the British economy.

Bank warns on house prices as QE anxiety hits sterling

Taoiseach link to address used by Dubai killer

Dublin house owned by brother of former Irish PM Albert Reynolds

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Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen in "Alice in Wonderland."

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Property prices may have further to fall, and recovery in the euro area has stalled

Coral reefs in danger of being destroyed

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Applications and OS, not hardware driving mobile handset sales

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John Sergeant: Draughtsman celebrated for his still lifes and self-portraits

As a black-and-white draughtsman John Sergeant was supreme; he loved chiaroscuro and relied almost entirely on the tint of his carefully chosen Ingres papers to illumine and enrich the subtlety of his lustrous black charcoal drawings.