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In Iraq and Afghanistan the bloody toll is still rising as the daily brutality and terror of war and occupation continues.

My union was on strike last week when we heard that Gordon Brown had made bosses’ rep Sir Digby Jones a trade minister in his government.

A former British National Party election candidate and a dentist stockpiled chemicals as part of a bomb plot, a court heard yesterday.

Today, women are working in unprecedented numbers, have broken their chains to the home, thrown out the traditional "feminine" roles, and have choices that our grandmothers couldn’t have imagined.

I write after the fantastic support for the union’s stance last Friday against Royal Mail’s "slash and burn" race to the bottom strategy.

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Last week’s conference of the British Medical Association (BMA) passed policy calling for women to have easier access to abortion.

Ciudad Guyana is not one city but two. Several hundred kilometres south east of the capital Caracas, it is split by a tributary of the Orinoco river. On one side of the bridge is San Felix, a crowded poor town of potholed roads and very basic houses.

Biofuels sound like the perfect way to save the environment and cut spiraling carbon emissions. They are made from plants and leave no nasty waste products. They produce less emissions than fossil fuels and, supporters argue, their emissions are offset by the carbon absorbed by the plants as they are growing.

The How We Are: Photographing Britain exhibition currently showing at London’s Tate Britain gallery certainly can’t be faulted on grounds of scale or ambition.

In Colombia biofuel projects are expanding in different parts of the country – though now we tend to use the term "agrifuels" rather than "biofuels", since the processes used to make them are no more biological than many other energy sources.

This excellent production is written and performed by singer Anna Zapparoli and songwriter and pianist Mario Borciani.