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What really happens when the UK deports failed asylum-seekers

Billy Kenber: An investigation by The Independent reveals details of the secret flights used to return failed asylum-seekers, including the companies and airlines involved, the conditions on board, and the techniques permitted.

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The secret of living to 100 is all in our genes, according to new research. Not for me, thanks, says John Walsh.

Prime Minister is backing the old politics

Mary Ann Sieghart: Britain’s most refreshing political observer on why Cameron is wrong on voting reform.

Most Islamist terrorists in UK are born here

The majority of Islamist terrorists in the UK are under the age of 30, educated and employed.

Leading article: Money alone is not the answer

Tell me lies: Robert De Niro's despotic character in 'Meet the Parents', used a polygraph on his potential son-in-law (played by Ben Stiller). But science does not offer a method for isolating deceptive brain activity

The science of lying: Why the truth really can hurt

Studies show there are clear biological benefits to dishonesty, writes Alice-Azania Jarvis.

Advice on suntanning may risk vitamin deficiency

Steve Connor: Health bodies to acknowledge need to tan during peak hours – despite cancer risks.

Oliver Gillie: Time to abandon this outdated view on staying out of the sun

Plans to curb civil service compensation payments new

Civil servants were today potentially facing sharp cuts to their "golden goodbye" payments.

Public sector finds itself in dire need of cost controllers to wield the knife

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In 1964 the German artist Gerhard Richter gave an interview to a critic called John Anthony Thwaites in which he made a number of surprising revelations; among them, that his pictures had been used to torture inmates in concentration camps and had, by their sheer power, killed off Joseph Stalin.