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• 2010-09-08 15:00800 inmates escape during attack on Nigerian ... Suspected Boko Haram gunmen break locks and set fire to prison allowing inmates, including Muslim extremists, to ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 14:22Line in the sand on taxes | ... Let us say first that yes, on balance, I probably think that the Bush tax cuts should ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 14:31Rodney King to marry member of jury ... Police beating victim reportedly to marry Cynthia Kelley after calling her on impulse four months ago - ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 14:32John Lennon killer Mark David Chapman denied ... Review board refuses sixth bid for freedom by man convicted of shooting former Beatle in 1980, saying ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 14:46Ranulph Fiennes caused crash while asleep at ... Veteran adventurer fined £1,000 for dozing off at the wheel after marathon and driving into oncoming car ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 14:5124 hours in pictures A selection of the best images from around the world read more »
• 2010-09-08 14:58Video: Pakistan bomb survivors describe police compound ... Scenes of devastation after a car bomb rips through a police compound in the north-western Pakistani city ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:57Video | BP Deepwater oil spill report: ... The Guardian's head of environment, Damian Carrington, outlines the main points of BP's report into the Deepwater ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:00The wholly fallible Ben Bernanke | Dean ... Despite three crucial errors at the Federal Reserve, its chairman is still revered as if he is ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:02Truth and consolation | Andrew Holding As sceptics and atheists we should be less self-righteous: we have no right to deprive other people ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:15guardian weekly September 8 Test how well you've been following world events over the last week. read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:17My legal hero: Barack Obama Afua Hirsch : Lawyers struggle to bring about a better world but the American president reminds us ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:08Pakistan floods: The displaced and the saved Flooding has left 10 million people without shelter, the UN has said, as the Pakistani authorities rush ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 16:01Belarus under pressure to investigate death of ... Human rights watchdogs join Belarussian opposition in demanding inquiry into death of Charter 97 campaigner Oleg Bebenin ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:50Video: Baby elephant rescued from marshland in ... A one-year-old elephant is pulled from marshy wetland by forest officials and villagers in Assam, north-eastern India read more »
• 2010-09-08 14:30PMQ's: Nick Clegg faces phone-hacking row questions Nick Clegg faces Jack Straw in the House of Commons as the phone-hacking row is raised at ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:08Top prosecutor backs murder by degree Life sentences for every murderer could be scrapped after the country's top prosecutor backed a radical shake-up ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:42Underwood / Deloitte Ignite Festival, Royal Opera ... Jah Wobble and Talvin Singh perform in a sublime collision of eastern and western cultures. Rating: * ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:17Hawke, Lyonne and Rubin-Vega to Star in ... The theater company announces some casting plans for the coming season. read more »
• 2010-09-08 14:58Meredith Monk, Antony and the Johnsons Join ... Some additions to the lineup before the Oct. 28 opening. read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:19A Host Is Not at Home: Ellen ... On a visit to New York, Ellen DeGeneres makes appearances at "Promises, Promises" and David Letterman's "Late ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 14:192 ‘Trees’ Return to World Trade Center They are 70 feet high, made of steel and weigh 50 tons each. And they will be ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:18Schools Open With New Challenges and Tight ... After a summer of sharply mixed news, the city school system throws opens its doors to its ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 15:25An Insider Running as an Outsider Also in the Morning Buzz: The school year begins in New York City (and Fashion Week is ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 12:13Tony Blair cancels A Journey launch party ... Called off after anti-war campaigners threatened to target Tate Modern. read more »
• 2010-09-08 13:09Britain's envoy to Afghanistan quits after 'Taliban ... Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, has quit with immediate effect amid reports of a clash with Nato and US ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 12:05Muscle Beach annual bodybuilding competition Muscle Beach in Venice, California, is one of two historic bodybuilding locations and took over as the ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 12:06Australian court rules that there is no ... Australia's federal court has ruled that there is no copyright in newspaper headlines. The decision has far-reaching ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 12:30Japanese kidnap victim tricks Afghan captors with ... A Japanese journalist who was held hostage in Afghanistan for five months managed to send out reassuring ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 12:45Video: US preacher to go ahead with ... Pastor Terry Jones rejects calls by US secretary of state Hillary Clinton to abandon plans to burn ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 12:46Video: The blitz in colour Footage shot by Alfred Coucher, wartime mayor and chief air raid warden of Marylebone, west London. It ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 12:55Are co-pilots on short-haul flights necessary? Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary wants to use just one pilot per flight as part of his drive ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 13:36The Vatican is a real state | ... Geoffrey Robertson's case against recognising the Holy See as a state falls with an elementary error of ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 13:06Why the French make pensions a cause ... Over the channel they take to the streets over raising the pension age. Here we have a ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 13:14Muslims protest against US church plans to ... Muslims around the world called for Barack Obama's death at protests to denounce a US church's plans ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 13:23Hong Kong roadside air pollution hits record ... Friends of the Earth calls on city chiefs to do much more to banish 'unhealthy air' Roadside ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 13:30Divine dispatches: a religion roundup | Riazat ... Avram Grant's Yom Kippur habits; Rosh Hashanah via TV or internet; Glenn Beck goes Mormon; secular extremism ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 13:39What to say about ... Clybourne Park Bruce Norris's new play is about the prejudice that lurks within outwardly liberal people. So what did ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 12:31Proms 2010: Prom 71 / Orchestre National ... Daniele Gatti conducts a tightly knit audience winner of a programme. Rating: * * * read more »
• 2010-09-08 10:26Eyewitness: Flexing their pecs Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series read more »
• 2010-09-08 11:09A re-balancing is needed | Jo Confino Increasing numbers of people in the west recognise that capitalism as it is now does not answer ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 11:00Disarming Lebanon's Palestinians | Ahmed Moor Palestinian refugees must be properly integrated into Lebanese society if the country is to put the scars ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 11:35UN has failed Congo mass rape victims, ... Atul Khare's report for security council tells of 500 attacks blamed on rebels, militia and Congolese army ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 11:44David Cameron rushes to France after father ... The Prime Minister has broken off his political engagements to rush to France where his father, Ian, ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 11:46When will the SNP foot soldiers stop ... Contrary to what many may think, this column has always had a soft spot for the poor ... read more »
• 2010-09-08 12:00Creating An Alternative To 'Freemium' Software maker Atlassian collects a token amount for its base product and donates it to charity. read more »
• 2010-09-08 09:31Mercury Music Prize: Electronic band The xx ... Electronic trio from south London, The xx, win the prestigious album award. read more »
• 2010-09-08 10:07Mercury Prize 2010 winners the xx: from ... Group named winners of Mercury Prize for debut album "The xx". read more »
• 2010-09-08 10:33Brian Clarke: rock star of stained glass Brian Clarke is having an ecclesiastical moment, having fled the shadow of church architecture. read more »
• 2010-09-08 09:15Bodies found in Mexico could be those ... Papers found on bodies in Tamaulipas suggest they are those of local police who were investigating massacre ... read more »