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Nick Clegg retreats on no-confidence votes

Coalition government's U-turn on rules governing dissolution of parliament
Nick Clegg - the lonely schoolboy who dreams of a perfect state

Simon Hoggart: In his imagination, Clegg has created an ideal state in which justice, fairness and sheer practicality fight each other for position
AV referendum: May date gets cross-party challenge

Opponents say it is 'confusing' to vote in referendum on electoral reform on same day as local elections

Pope's UK visit to cost taxpayers up to £12m

Government reveals bill for papal visit is up to £4m more than estimated, before policing costs are taken into account
Gay bishop for Southwark 'will split Church of England'

Dr Jeffrey John nominated for Anglican diocese but parishes could seek leadership abroad, conservative clerics warn

National lottery millionaire to keep caravanning

Wally Jinks shared £2,033,705 with friend Alan Stringer after they matched all six numbers in a lotto rollover
British seaside resort takes a pier into the future

£51m has rebuilt the Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare 'bigger and better' after the pavilion burned down two years ago
GNM shares Coffey award for Katine partnership

Launched in 2007, the campaign seeks to improve education, health, livelihoods, sanitation and community empowerment for 25,000 people in Katine
Bosnian former leader Ejup Ganic fights extradition on war crimes charge

Former president Ejup Ganic is fighting extradition to Serbia, which has accused him of committing war crimes in 1992
Woman alleges 1968 attack by Peter Tobin

Woman claims on BBC's Crimewatch that Tobin put something in her drink before assaulting her in a Glasgow tenement

Britons admit they just can't live without home internet

Domestic web connection joins holidays, mobile phones and fridge-freezer among necessities of modern life, Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds
Labour leadership hopefuls shouting from the sidelines

Michael White: The contenders have done their separate best to hammer the Tories at the dispatch box

Aberystwyth University wins gay-friendliness prize

Welsh town takes top spot in Stonewall online guide
Cheryl Cole has malaria, say friends

Singer got the disease after being bitten by mosquito during holiday in Tanzania, according to reports
Interpol appeals to online gamers in hunt for dangerous fugitives

International police agency releases names, aliases and descriptions of 26 serious offenders on the run
School building programme scrapped in latest round of cuts

Some 715 projects axed as government ends Building Schools for the Future programme in £1bn education budget cuts

Global emissions targets will lead to 4C temperature rise, say studies

Studies predict major extinctions and collapse of Greenland ice sheet with temperatures rising well above UN and Copenhagen targets
British specialists help save Ethiopia's ancient Garima Gospels

Garima Gospels, possibly among earliest surviving illustrated Christian manuscripts, preserved by Anglo-French team working at remote monastery

Queen wears 3D glasses … but one must still have one's bling

Angela Kelly, the Queen's dresser and personal assistant, came up the idea of crystal trimmings for the glasses
Royal spending cut by £3m a year

Buckingham Palace says fewer foreign trips by Queen helped to trim expenditure on official duties by 12.2% to £38.2m
Man jailed for stabbing pair during 'lollipop row'

Darius Antoine told he must serve a minimum of six years after stabbing incident outside a West End nightclub
Iraq humanitarian effort 'hampered by Clare Short'

Chilcot inquiry hears that Sally Keeble, deputy to international development secretary, claimed her decisions were disastrous
Cristiano Ronaldo becomes a father – but mother keeps mum

Identity of the mother a mystery amid speculation that former Manchester United forward had arranged for a surrogate

Public sector cuts: ministers to impose lower redundancy payouts

Government plans to bring severance terms into line with private sector by imposing a lower cap on redundancy payouts
UK's collusion with Islamists 'catastrophic'

Mark Curtis, author of Secret Affairs, says that the past is returning 'to haunt British policy in Afghanistan'

Planck telescope sends back a postcard of the universe

This image from the Planck telescope is a first instalment from its survey of the universe's hidden structure
Tortured terror suspects to get official inquiry at last

Cameron to announce terms of reference, although security agencies want proceedings kept private
Brixton stabbing: Mother urges families of her son's killers to turn them in

Zac Olumegbon, 15, from Brixton in south London, was stabbed to death as he arrived at his school on Friday

Public sector cuts: Stephen Dorrell warns against ringfencing NHS budget

• Ex-health secretary's thinktank proposes vouchers plan
• Cuts elsewhere 'will have adverse effects on health'
BFI launches hunt for missing Hitchcock movie

Britain's film institute wants to find scores of lost films, including famous director's The Mountain Eagle