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Schoolgirl's Odyssey
Posted on March 2, 2010
Schoolgirl's Odyssey follows Malala, a Pakistani schoolgirl and her father as the deteriorating security situation forces them to leave their home in the Swat Valley. But what is even worse for the family is that, due to the Taliban restrictions on education for girls, Malala is stripped of her education and her father loses his livelihood – he runs a well-respected girls' school.
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    • BBC staff revolt after spending cuts announced
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    BBC staff have reacted angrily to a package of proposed cuts, including the closure of BBC 6 Music and the Asian Network, outlined by the corporation's director general Mark Thompson.
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    'America's Army' Blurs Virtual War, 'Militainment'
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    America's Army, an online combat game developed by the Pentagon, has helped boost military recruitment. The game's technology is not all that different from the tools used in today's war zones to guide unmanned drones and perform other tasks.
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    Cord blood: a wasted lifeline?
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    The blood from umbilical cords may be a better source of stem cells than bone marrow. Simon Usborne meets the couple campaigning to make donation of it easier
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    Michael Winner: Big mouth strikes again
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    He usually arrives at restaurants in a private jet. What will Michael Winner make of the Golden Arches? Deborah Ross treats him
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    British orphans: 'It broke our hearts to see them go away'
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    Thousands of British orphans sent to Australia faced a life of violence, rape and virtual slavery. But what of the children left in the UK? Lynne Wallis reports
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    The logical way to find love
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    When it comes to choosing a partner, we should forget about romance and let science be our guide, claims the author of a new book. Ifu Ifeacho discovers how
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    Richard Hamilton: Altered images
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    Richard Hamilton's manipulations of news photographs show just how tricky taking a moral stance in art can be, says Tom Lubbock
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    Today's Comments
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    Dominic Lawson: Critics of faith schools won't acknowledge why they succeed
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    • China's wealth gap the widest since economic reforms began
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    China has recorded its widest wealth gap since economic reforms began in 1978, a split that is a "serious threat to social stability", the government has said.
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    Criticism of Israel is not “anti-Israel” - or worse, says U.S. congressman
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    The deplorable humanitarian situation in Gaza and the West Bank demands immediate attention - says U.S. Congressman Brian Baird.
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    • The Sports Report
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    Football:
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    • Asia review
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    Junta rejects Suu Kyi appeal as election looms
  • Indian women take their revenge              
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    • Schools test 'interactive graphic novel' version of Macbeth
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    The latest attempt to get an audience of multimedia-savvy schoolchildren and teens engaged with Shakespeare is an interactive graphic novel version of the play, complete with voiceovers by Derek Jacobi and Juliet Stevenson.
  • Interactive version of Macbeth            
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    Immigrants Rally for a Nationwide Strike in Italy
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    MILAN — In an effort to heighten awareness about the contributions made by foreign workers to the Italian economy, the promoters of the first strike by immigrants in the country invited workers to stay home and to boycott shopping for one day.
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    • Probe into Spanish Civil War’s greatest mystery lands judge in hot water
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    Spain’s Judge Baltazar Garzon is facing criminal charges for attempting to initiate an investigation into the disappearance of over 100,000 people during the Spanish Civil War.
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    • Probe into Spanish Civil War’s greatest mystery lands judge in hot water
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    Spain’s Judge Baltazar Garzon is facing criminal charges for attempting to initiate an investigation into the disappearance of over 100,000 people during the Spanish Civil War.
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    • Spanish Judge Accuses Venezuela of Aiding Basque and Colombian Militants
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    MADRID — A Spanish judge on Monday accused the government and armed forces of Venezuela of facilitating high-level contacts between Colombian rebels and Basque separatists, helping the groups learn bomb-making techniques and share intelligence for possible plots to assassinate Colombian politicians, including the president.
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    Patriot Act extended without privacy protections
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    President Obama, this weekend, signed a one-year extension to several provisions of the Patriot Act – the main counter-terrorism law in the US allowing spying on Americans and seizing personal records and private data.
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    • Karadzic defends Serb aggression as 'just and holy'
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    The wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, defending himself against charges of Europe's worst genocide since the Holocaust, told judges yesterday he was not the barbarian depicted by UN prosecutors, but was protecting his people against a fundamentalist Muslim plot.
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    • Hillary Clinton offers to help solve Falklands dispute
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    The US Secretary of State said America would not get involved in the dispute itself but was ready to mediate.
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    Chile Calls for Outside Aid as Devastation Sinks In
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    ANGOL, Chile — Chile’s government, after initially waving off outside aid, changed course Monday as the devastation from the powerful earthquake sank in and the nation’s pressing needs became clear.

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    • Metronet failure cost taxpayers £410m, MPs find
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    A "cavalier" attitude and inadequate management by the Department for Transport over failed Tube maintenance company Metronet have cost taxpayers up to £410 million, a report by MPs said.
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    Pound falls to 10-month low as election uncertainty takes hold
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    An assault on the pound by hedge funds and the increasing prospects of a hung parliament has sent sterling to its sharpest intra-day fall in more than a year.
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    Are we really going to let ourselves be duped into this solar panel rip-off?
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    Those who hate environmentalism have spent years looking for the definitive example of a great green rip-off. Finally it arrives, and nobody notices. The government is about to shift £8.6bn from the poor to the middle classes. It expects a loss on this scheme of £8.2bn, or 95%. Yet the media is silent. The opposition urges only that the scam should be expanded.
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