Newspaper of the year | 17 October 2011 | Last updated less than one minute ago
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Cameron vows to bring down energy bills
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UK borders still detaining children
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Has the X Factor lost the X Factor?
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Care should focus on basic needs
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Help, I've been promoted too soon
Dear Jeremy: The more I learn about my new field the less confident and more despondent I feel -
Greener meat: the offal truth
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That's the way to do it
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Shahidul Alam's best shot
'The fisherman told me the river is a destructive animal. It had destroyed his home many times' -
The Twitter gene: FOXP2
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The fashion briefing – in pictures
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British driver dies in IndyCar crash
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Liverpool back Suárez in race row
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All Blacks smash Australia
Rugby World Cup: New Zealand record 6-20 victory over Australia to power way to place in final against France
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Science Weekly: nanotechnology
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Video: Andy Burnham on the NHS bill: 'Tories distrust national healthcare' (4min 29sec)
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Video: Obama dedicates Martin Luther King memorial in Washington (1min 54sec)
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The scale of Europe's debt hangover
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Japan needs a European recovery
Dan Milmo: Tokyo wants eurozone to sort out its debt crisis so EU economies can hoover-up Japanese exports
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'Italy's been in decline since the 80s'
In Naples Jon Henley finds out why the Italian economy – the fifth largest in the 70s – has slowed down -
Rioters hijack Rome Occupy protest
Italian police search for ringleaders after bomb planted, cars set ablaze and shops looted by violent breakaway group
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