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Students, discuss: are degrees the new sub-prime bubble? | Jeevan Vasagar
As in the housing boom, cheap money is chasing overpriced education assets. The challenge is to avoid poor-value university coursesLike an addict back on the smack, the country is hooked on hope once...
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Guantánamo Bay files: Star informer freed after implicating 123 prisoners
Mohammed Basardah rewarded despite unsupported claims and interrogators' doubts about sheer number of names he gave upA star informer at Guantánamo Bay has won his freedom by making statements against...
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Guantánamo Bay files: Al-Qaida assassin 'worked for MI6'
• Leaked Guantánamo papers link UK to Algerian militant • At least 123 prisoners incriminated by one informerAn al-Qaida operative accused of bombing two Christian churches and a luxury hotel in...
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Iraq's own Arab spring | Jonathan Steele
A renewed sense of nationalism is uniting protesters over delays to US troop withdrawalStretched close to the limit by combat in Afghanistan and determined not to get into a ground war in Libya, the...
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US tipped off about al-Qaida cell that did not exist
Leader of al-Qaida cell in London turned out to be an 11-year-old boy who had never left his village in Saudi ArabiaThe US military created a detailed intelligence file on a London-based al-Qaida cell...
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Human cannonball stuntman dies after safety net failure
23-year-old performer dies in hospital after accident at Scott May's Daredevil Stunt Show at Kent county showgroundA man performing a human cannonball act at a stunt show in Kent has died after a...
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Guantánamo Bay files: detained cleric was working with British officials
American forces believed Mullah Haji Rohullah Wakil was running drugs and plotting to destabilise the Afghan governmentA senior Afghan cleric and politician who spent six years in Guantánamo Bay after...
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Tanks and troops enter towns and villages for the first time as scores of people are reportedly killed across SyriaSteve Bell
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City bonuses shrink – but basic salary rises more than make up for it
Bonus payouts shrank by 8% over last 12 months at the same time as permanent 7% rise in basic salaries in Square MileWorkers in the City of London who have seen contentious bonus payouts shrink by 8%...
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The Guantánamo files: Tale of two prisons | Editorial
Guantánamo embodies the failure of the Afghan war, which began amid bombast in 2001, but which collapsed long agoAs a metaphor for everything that has gone wrong with the Afghan war, the story of two...
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Invasive species: Killer shrimps and English parrots | Editorial
Striped and suitably vicious-looking, a creature, which likes to kill its prey without eating it, has arrived from the Black SeaDikerogammarus villosus, a visitor to this country so unpopular that even...
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In praise of … hazy imprecision | Editorial
Life is imperfect and its rounded edges and knocks from experience have an appealWe are often exhorted to define our terms and there is merit in that. Ian Richards and Charles Ogden were not indulging...
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Chernobyl's legacy: no likely return to normality and a never-ending bill
Chernobyl has brought greater cancer risks, economic hardship and homes uprooted – and no one can predict when it will endTwenty five years on from the world's worst nuclear accident, the number of...
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Forest fires around Chernobyl could release radiation, scientists warn
Consortium says $13.5m is needed to improve firefighting and monitoring in radiation-soaked plantations around stationA consortium of Ukrainian and international scientists is making an urgent call for...
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Inside Chernobyl's control room, 25 years on
The nuclear plant's silent nerve centre and the abandoned town of Pripyat are monuments to a failed Soviet dreamThe control room where Soviet atomic staff fought a losing battle to prevent a nuclear...
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Letters: Fear and loathing at the ballot box
Martin Kettle is baffled by the virulence of the criticisms made of Nick Clegg (This hatred of Clegg says more about us than him, 22 April). I am not one bit bemused. I still have the Lib Dem election...
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Corrections and clarifications
• A report on the Welsh assembly election campaign made mention of Owain Glyndwr, famed Welsh leader of the late Middle Ages, but spelled him Glyndwyr. It also misnamed Iwan Huws, a first-time Plaid...
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Letters: Bill to shake up export finance
Tomorrow MPs will be asked to back a bill to radically shake up the Export Credits Guarantee Department. Since 1919 this little-known government department has used taxpayers' money to insure high-risk...
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Letters: Images of the cross and Piss Christ
I would have hoped that Christians might welcome any image of Jesus Christ being subjected to cruel indignities (albeit artistically), given that the real-life cruel indignities described in the...
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BBC defends filming cancer patient's death
BBC science series Inside the Human Body will show final breaths of 84-year-old manThe BBC has braced for criticism after filming the dying moments of a terminally-ill man whose family agreed for the...
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