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A demonstrator kicks in a window at Millbank Tower as students and lecturers protest against university funding cuts

Student riot marks end of Coalition's era of consensus

Tory HQ wrecked in worst street violence since 1990 poll tax riots.

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Mervyn King: 'I hope that at the G20 meeting we will get a co-operative message rather than some of those that we have been getting in the last few days and weeks'

King urges G20 to get its act together

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Sean O'Grady: Bank worried international trade and currency disputes could derail recovery.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith will say five million people are trapped on out-of-work benefits

Jobless who refuse work will lose benefits for up to three years

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Andrew Grice and Nigel Morris: Tough new sanctions to be announced by Government today.

US Army soldiers on a joint Iraqi security operation in al-Noor village in Kirkuk province, north of Baghdad, yesterday

Sun sets on US influence in Iraq as deal on new government looms

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Patrick Cockburn: The United States is facing a decisive political defeat in Iraq over the formation of a new government.

Sir Peter Viggers' £1,645 'Stockholm' duck house

Still in the duck house? Life after the expenses row

Thursday, 11 November 2010

At the last election, dozens of politicians left under a cloud. Oliver Wright and Kevin Rawlinson ask what they did next.

David Cameron speaks to students at Peking University in Beijing

Showdown looms as leaders head to G20 summit

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Nigel Morris: World leaders flew into South Korea last night to meet and try to avert a 'currency war'.

The number of soldiers being treated for mental health problems is soaring

Soldiers struggle to cope with post-Afghanistan life

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Mark Hughes: Greater numbers of soldiers are returning with mental health problems.

While clients sometimes chafed at Hone's abrasive style, he was also described by a friend as 'one of nature's nurses'

Angus Hone: Charismatic economist who fought bipolar disorder to work for institutions such as the UN and World Bank

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Larger than life, a complete original, an entire Oxford generation's candidate for "the most unforgettable character I ever met," Angus Hone was a jobbing development economist, a sort of flying consultant-economist to UN agencies, the World Bank, sovereign countries and entire industries. He had also worked recently as night porter in a Worcester hotel. With the generosity, Dionysian energy and bravura of a character in fiction, he reminded me of Thomas Mann's Indonesian Dutch planter, Mynheer Peeperkorn, combined with the connections of Proust's Charles Swann.

Sale growth shows Sainsbury's is outpacing its rivals

TV dinners boost profits at Sainsbury's

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Sainsbury's is banking on continued demand for its top-end food range and and the results of its expansion drive to overcome the challenging economic environment.

Simon Turl travels up to 30,000 miles a year visiting Roadchef's 19 sites

Simon Turl: The biker who gives motorists a break

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Roadchef's Harley-riding boss is investing in the future

Goldman caterer is accused of 'discrimination'

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Unite has called on Goldman Sachs to intervene in a furious row with its caterers over allegations of racism.

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