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Weekend Interviews
Posted on January 31, 2010
A show to Bragg about: The South Bank Show frontman Melvyn recalls his most memorable moments
  • 'They like us naive': How teenage girls are groomed for a life of prostitution by UK gangs
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    Thirteen-year-old Emma was a happy child from a loving family when a gang of boys she met at a shopping centre introduced her to a charismatic older man. He plied her with gifts and drinks... then raped her and forced her into prostitution. Now aged 20 and in hiding from the gang, Emma talks candidly about how she was groomed – and how she is trying to help the growing number of others being picked out for a similar fate
    Haiti reports
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    UN to start major Haiti food distribution programme
  • Special report: The rise of 'the African Taliban'
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    More than 500,000 displaced people live along the 20-mile Afgoye Corridor, west of Mogadishu. Many have lost everything, including their families, in their flight from the Shabaab – Somalia's terrifying Islamist militia
  • The young French women fighting to defend the full-face veil
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    The debate over a proposed French law banning the niqab in public buildings features some unexpected divisions
    Greeks protest over debt crisis
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    For the first time in the modern history of Greece, anti-government protesters last night pitched tents outside the large standstone building of the Athenian parliament amid growing public anger and unprecedented international concern over the country's dire public finances
  • Barack Obama finds out who really holds power
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    On both sides of the Atlantic, the same group of people decide who wins elections, says Janet Daley
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  • The Evidence of Witness 69: Blair has shown himself more a fool than a liar
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    The most revealing thing about the former PM's evidence was how little he understood about the situation on the ground
  • Why British students are flocking to America
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    Forget Oxbridge. The cream of Britain’s undergraduates are being seduced by North American universities. Where does this leave our own stuffy, underfunded institutions?
    Today's Comments
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    Catherine Bennentt: Why are so many young girls still being lured into the beauty trap?
  • Taliban in no mood for concessions: analysts
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    KABUL — Foreign and Afghan leaders may be driving a new peace initiative, but observers warn it will take more than the lure of money for emboldened Taliban leaders and fighters to give up their eight-year war.
  • China Leading Global Race to Make Clean Energy
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    TIANJIN, China — China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.
    Gordon Brown: I will go on and on
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    GORDON BROWN is making secret plans to stay on as Labour leader after the general election even if his party is defeated.
  • The Sports Report
    Posted on January 31, 2010
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