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Concern over human cost overshadows iPad launch

Martin Hickman: The American electronics giant Apple was investigating damaging allegations last night that Chinese workers making its new iPad device were subjected to such "inhumane" treatment that some of them took their own lives by jumping off factory roofs.

The factory with nets to catch would-be suicides

Let's talk dirty: British women in couples still spend two-thirds more hours on chores than men do

How to clean up your marriage

Shared housework means fewer divorces, a study shows. So in this age of equality, why does the issue of who does what still cause so much angst?

The battle to write the inside story of New Labour

Andy McSmith: Freed from the cares of office, party heavyweights are racing to get their version of the years in power into print

Judgement day looms for Neville's zero-carbon footprint

Jonathan Brown: The Man United star is passionate about his flower-shaped property – but others are less than convinced by it

Leading article: Kicking carbon

Children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic in Malawi

Anti-retrovirals 'could be best hope of curbing Aids'

Jeremy Laurance: The spread of Aids can be dramatically curbed by the use of anti-retroviral drugs which cut transmission of the disease by more than 90% a study has found.

Leading article: The final goal could be in sight

Right-wingers elected to lead 1922 Committee

Nigel Morris: Right-wing critics of Cameron's coalition deal with the Lib Dems were elected by Tory MPs to key positions on their powerful backbench committee last night.

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Reina admits Liverpool must lower sights

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Prescriptions to treat alcohol dependency reach record level

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Facebook bows to pressure to simplify privacy controls

Facebook, the world's most-popular social networking site, last night backed down and introduced simplified privacy controls after a storm of protest from users.

Newly discovered fossil revealed as the mother of modern-day molluscs

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