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- Babies don't suffer when mothers return to work
  
  Findings overturn earlier research. Gains of employment outweigh disadvantages
- Pakistan condemns Cameron claims
  
  Yousaf Raza Gilani's comments follow cancellation of trip to Britain by Pakistan's spy chief
- Rwanda looks set to re-elect Kagame
  
  Economic boom has made the president the overwhelming favourite to be re-elected next week
- Coalition budget faces legal challenge
  
  Commons vote could be overturned if MPs were not told that bulk of the £8bn cutbacks would hit women
- Grant's career ends in conviction
  
  Footballer's career with Millwall, Wycombe and Bradford ends as he is convicted of a 2004 shooting
- Wikileaks under fire over Afghanistan revelations
  
  Founder, Julian Assange, thrust into the public eye over one of the biggest intelligence leaks of all time
- End of term report
  
  Three months on, lessons of the coalition
  
  Last week Britain's first coalition government since the war completed its first parliamentary session
- Gove accused of exaggerating support
  
  Education secretary faces fresh accusations after just 62 apply for his 'free schools' policy - less than a tenth of the number he said had shown interest
- 'Greece will become a war zone'
  
  Security forces fear wave of terror as austerity programme provokes protests, and an assassination
- Bollywood's hit Bin Laden comedy
  
  Low-budget box office hit about a fake video is banned in Pakistan but will be released in the US
- World's first transsexual supermodel
  
  Lea T emerges from backstage onto catwalk to front Givenchy's new campaign

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Stewart Lee: my life on the shelf

Comedian Stewart Lee on the compulsive collecting, and the hazards of extreme storage

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Our taste for bluefin tuna is driving the fish to extinction. But what if there was another, more abundant, equally delicious fish to share the load?

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This scientist plans to retire to Mars

SpaceX founder, Elon Musk, is convinced that humanity's survival rests on its ability to move to the red planet

'I can help humans live to be 1,000'

Molecular biologist, Aubrey de Grey, believes we don't have to get sick as we get older

Sport

Dan Carter inspires as freewheeling New Zealand crush Australia

Dan Carter scored one try and kicked 14 points as New Zealand thrashed Australia

Kevin Pietersen just needs reassurance to bat through fragility

Kevin Pietersen needs more encouragement and less criticism as his batting problems are mainly due to a lack of confidence

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