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Defence secretary Liam Fox goes public with row over who funds £20bn nuclear missile system

BP's cautious, cryptic statement says firm will 'take this day by day', but Louisianans see light at the end of a long tunnel

Four authorities, all volunteers, have been chosen to run services they think they can administer better than Whitehall

Prisoner says his complaints about Bagram detention centre were blacked out by British security service officers

Zoe Williams: BBC Radio 5 live show wasn't tearjerking, but it was a strange mix of the banal and interesting

Apple chief rises to top spot after success of 'game-changing' iPhone and iPad, while Rupert Murdoch is back up to fourth

Teachers failing to correct pupils due to misplaced fear of interfering with self-expression, says mayor-backed pamphlet

Scientists believe the flu patch could increase influenza vaccination rates in developing countries

Survey shows rise of 11.5%, the biggest recorded since tracking of quarterly premiums began

Britons targeted by cold callers pretending to be from Microsoft phoning to fix a fake computer problem

Researchers photograph and measure the Horton Plains slender loris, but fear there could be fewer than 100 left alive

Conservative says Beijing may be 'playing the bad guy' to grab green profits 20 years ahead

Westminster, and Hammersmith and Fulham councils' attempt to slash budgets by pooling resources is first such move in UK

Company apologises for posting 'offensive' status updates to users' profiles as part of Dr Pepper internet campaign

At least 45 dead as attacks target government-supported Sons of Iraq group in Baghdad and Qaim

The US state's new immigration law is threatening to divide America with panicking Hispanic families fleeing

Sheriff Joe Arpaio has proved highly popular with voters, and other states are now following his lead

Former EU commissioner Chris Patten calls Gaza blockade an immoral failure and says bloc must be more independent

Students overcome scant resources to put green prototype on Hebron's diesel and donkey polluted roads

The Dreamliner's first UK customer is Thomson Airways, which will receive its first delivery in January 2012

Bets 'risk most vulnerable in the world starving' as commodity speculators push cocoa to 33-year high

Gary Younge: The left must show this for the elective surgery it is: cuts born of ideology, where the many pay for a crisis created by the rich

Peter Preston: As polls on the ground show, Afghans know full well what their future holds – and it doesn't involve us

Jackie Ashley: Now the legacy of 9/11 is fading, Britain is too small a player to matter. To the Tories' unease, the real talk is at EU level

Editorial: You don't use the London Library, you explore it and, unlike academic libraries, books are available to take home

Editorial: Reviews into sentencing, torture and terror laws must affect real change and there's a chance they could

Editorial: With 800 million undernourished, anything that reduces the food supply has potential for tragedy

Tony Greenbank: Lake District

The letters editor on the correspondence that's not for publication

Charismatic composer best known for his groundbreaking choral work African Sanctus

Actor with starring role in 80s sitcom Bread

Owner of Spanish magazine ¡Hola! and its UK edition, Hello!