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One response to the phone hacking scandal has been to blame the readers of tabloid newspapers, rather than editors and owners, for the disgrace.

The phrase "If you want to know the time, ask a policeman" is informative. It has nothing to do with the police being helpful. It came from their reputation for stealing the watches of Victorian drunks.

Millions in Egypt came back onto the streets on 8 July to demand justice for the families of the martyrs killed during the uprising, and a purge of the interior ministry.

Spain’s workers successfully threw back an attempted military coup against a radical government in 1936. Their heroic acts were the beginning of three years of bloody fighting for the soul of Spain.

The Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya was designed for 90,000 people.

Troops and gangs of plainclothes police attacked a mass march in Egypt’s capital Cairo last Saturday.

The timing couldn’t be better for the launch of this new BBC Two newsroom drama.

An Act of Love is an extraordinary book that thoroughly explores trust, pain and decision-making.

Some 200 Unite union members at David Brown Gear Systems in Lockwood Huddersfield staged a 24-hour strike on Friday of last week.

Holmfirth in West Yorkshire, the home of TV show Last of the Summer Wine, has seen an energetic campaign to save its adult education centre.

Essex fire bosses are refusing to talk to the FBU union after it exposed their pay rises and expenses claims.

The word "nass" in the exhibition’s title is the Egyptian Arabic word for "people".