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John Paul II takes first step towards sainthood in Rome
Beatification of the late pope John Paul II in the Vatican City presided over by his successor, Benedict XVI More than a million Roman Catholics set aside the scandals that have rocked their church to...
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Mark Padmore and Friends - review
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonIn 1908, with most of his major scores still unwritten, Vaughan Williams took himself to Paris to study with Ravel, two years younger but already a successful composer....
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Pet care hit as recession bites, says charity
Blue Cross says owners are struggling to find an average of £11.04 each week to care for their petsAs economic times get tough, pets are some of the first to suffer with thousands of owners now saying...
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David Cameron using AV to trash us, say Lib Dems
Prime minister accused of using referendum to ruin Nick Clegg's leadership as new poll shows No lead cut to 10 pointsThe deepening loss of personal trust at the top of the coalition government...
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Cheshire police charge man with murder of teenage mother
Kelsey Marie Shaw, 17, was found unconscious in a Widnes flatA 19-year-old man has been charged with the murder of 17-year-old Kelsey Marie Shaw, who was discovered unconscious at a flat in Widnes,...
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Desert Crossings
Marine Theatre, Lyme RegisFriday may have universally been branded Kate and Wills day, but it was also Unesco World Day of Dance 2011. And down at the Lyme Regis Fossil festival, in among the bunting,...
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Air France crash: black box recovered by search team
French investigators hope data will solve debate over whether faulty sensors caused 2009 accidentA black box flight recorder from an Air France plane that crashed off the coast of Brazil in 2009,...
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Sir Henry Cooper obituary
His warmth and indomitable personality gave him a popularity far beyond the world of boxing's normal boundariesSir Henry Cooper, beloved of British postwar generations as no heavyweight boxer before...
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After the wedding and that party, the palace pleads for privacy
William and Kate play cat and mouse with the press – and it's round one to the royal coupleThe ink is barely dry on the wedding register but already the game of cat and mouse between the press and the...
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World's fair exposition celebrated by Google doodle
World's fair exposition in the Crystal Palace at Hyde Park in 1851 is celebrated by the search engine's latest doodleThe first world's fair exposition, the Great Exhibition, which happened 160 years...
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Holl/Schiff - review
Wigmore Hall, LondonA caprice of planning has decreed that two illustrious duos would perform Schubert's Winterreise song cycle at the Wigmore Hall within less than a fortnight. But who's complaining?...
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Libyans set British embassy alight after Nato attacks
UK expels ambassador after Tripoli crowds trash embassy in response to air strike that killed members of Gaddafi's familyThe British embassy in Tripoli was set on fire and other western missions were...
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Odd Future - review
Village Underground, LondonThis is the first London gig proper by Odd Future – or Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All to give them their full title. It is also, because of the notorious Los Angeles...
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New York aims to become a great harbour city once again
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces three-year plan to spend £215m reclaiming 520 miles of shoreline for the peopleThe view from pier six on the Brooklyn side of the East river is breathtaking: the...
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Presenter and author Clive James has leukaemia
The Australian, 71, treated at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge after being diagnosed in 2010Clive James, the Australian television presenter and critic, has leukaemia, it has emerged. James, 71,...
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Bitter arguments over electoral reform have led to a deepening loss of personal trust at the top of the coalition governmentMartin Rowson
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Corrections and clarifications
• An article misspelled Howard Stoate, former Labour MP for Dartford, as Stoat; similarly, the universities and science minister, David Willetts, appeared as Willets ('This lack of respect for women...
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Tax property, not people, for a fairer society
Levies on land values do not depress or distort wealth creation and are easy to assess, cheap to collect and hard to avoidAmid all the talk of rebalancing the economy, there is little mention of the...
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Letters: Tantrums, tiaras and Toynbee
Giles Fraser is on his journey from left to right, as befits his geographical move to the City (Comment, 30 April). Fine. But he must stop these meaningless generalisations about the rest of us. He...
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Sleep changes associated with loss of brain power in middle age
Study of people aged between 45 and 69 finds adverse changes in sleep duration associated with poor cognitive functionDo you find yourself getting much less sleep as you reach middle age? Or are you...
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