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Obama on tour: 'If it's Saturday, it must be London'
The Democratic presidential candidate has shored up his foreign-policy credentials with his carefully orchestrated globe-trotting. But it remains to be seen whether this will impress the folks back home, says Foreign Editor Raymond Whitaker
Firm with licence to print Mugabe's money
The Mugabe regime's final lifeline is a small Vienna-based software company that helps it to keep printing the money it relies on for its survival, The Independent can reveal.
Britain's war on food waste
The Government is to launch a campaign to stamp out Britain's waste food mountains as part of a global effort to curb food prices.
Fritzl daughter questioned
The woman allegedly held captive by her father for 24 years has been questioned by prosecutors for the first time, it was reported today.
House prices plunge again – as estate agents raise their fees
Many of Britain's biggest estate agents are raising their prices in a desperate bid to increase their earnings from the ever-dwindling number of homes they are now able to sell.
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Columnist Comments
• Deborah Orr: Face the facts: men are more prone to violence than women
What is murder? It is a much more complicated question than it may seem
• Mark Steel: Why do the unions keep handing over money?
Where unions have defied the trend and grown has been where they're seen to be defending the workforce