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The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
There have been many pretenders to the Pop art crown worn by Andy Warhol. Forget Damien Hirst or Jeff Koons. An unlikely contender has stepped forward to claim the throne. It is Tim Burton, the film director and animator whose darkly surreal vision has created modern fairy tales such as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Beetlejuice.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
They still don't get it, do they? MPs and their lucky relatives on the public payroll insist they're a special case. Thousands of families are facing a bleak Christmas with factories closing, shops going bust and factories operating on short time. But MPs live and breathe in a bubble where hardship is something they quantify differently from the rest of the country.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Bespoke shoemakers are cashing in on the growing demand for exclusive, good-quality women's shoes, fuelled by celebrity devotees such as Kate Moss and Freida Pinto. With sky-high heels de rigueur on Britain's streets, women are resorting to expensive measures to make their feet stand out from the crowd.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Note to the religious Right: if you're going to ask a surgically enhanced beauty queen to promote family values, it's best to check that her previous career hasn't involved soft core pornography.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Stealthily, cleverly, implacably, the officials of Sao Paulo – its 20 million inhabitants make it one of the world's largest cities – are after their prey. Since the first day of 2007, morning, noon, night and at weekends, Argus-eyed, they wait and watch for it on foot and in their vehicles. Their weapon is the Lei Cidade Limpa, the Clean City Law.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
With his gangly frame and thick-rimmed spectacles, Alex Riley makes an unlikely assassin. Unfortunately for Britain's £182bn-a-year food and drink industry, his wisecracks about its unsavoury practices in a new BBC TV series are little short of deadly.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
This Remembrance Sunday, Britain's mission in Afghanistan is under question as never before. Three choices face Gordon Brown: stay as we are and stick it out; a staged, unilateral withdrawal; or a radical change of strategy.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The opening night of a new restaurant, and the place is buzzing. The music is a mixture of rock and pop and there is no shortage of alcohol. A normal city scene, except the city is Kabul, and some of those at the party at the Martini are UN staff about to be evacuated out of the country because of the rapidly deteriorating security situation.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Barack Obama's top general in Afghanistan is considering a radical realignment of Britain's role in the country amid fears that the Taliban will target UK troops in the run-up to next May's general election.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Army investigators working to reconstruct in second-by-second detail the one-man rampage inside a soldier processing facility at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, are asking how the assailant had time to fire at least 100 rounds from a single handgun. The incident left 13 dead and more than 30 wounded.
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
PARENTS face a 20 per cent rise in the cost of school trips because of changes to the tax system brought in by the European Union.
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Corrente (Free subscription) | yesterday
Telegraph : Pupils in England will be given classes in sex and relationships from the age of five under Government plans to cut teenage pregnancies. Children will learn about parts of the body, the facts of life and puberty in primary school. At secondary school, they will be taught about pregnancy, contraception, HIV and homosexual relationships, it was disclosed. Morning-after pills available to...
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EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA (Free subscription) | yesterday
The case of Anucia, which Tony blogged about last month , seems to have struck a chord with you all: there are over 60 comments and counting on the post. Many are critical of Anucia's failure to research the government's requirements for a teaching post. A lot of people seem to have missed the critical point: if we want better teachers, we need to recognise more good universities. That's basically...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
The UK produces woefully few civil engineers, yet it is a uniquely satisfying trade. Ian Wylie meets one man who is proud to say he has tunnel vision There is just one question I want to ask Martin Kelly as a crane lowers our cage 40m down a huge concrete hole so we can admire the 4m-wide, 10km-long sewer pipe which he and his colleagues have been building. And that is: Why? Yes, it's a dirty job....
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
With catchment areas, playing the system reinforces the system It has come to our attention that there are some readers of this column who lie about their postcodes in order to fall within the Guardian's catchment area. One popular ruse is to rent an inexpensive studio flat in the left-leaning liberal consensus and claim it as a main address. Another scam is to exploit the sibling rule by claiming...