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Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) is in crisis after its leader, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, sacked the entire executive body.

A helicopter crash in Afghanistan has killed 38 Western troops—30 of them from the US.

The Syrian state has killed more than 2,000 people over the past five months.

Millions of Egyptians watched their former dictator, Hosni Mubarak, in a court cage last week. Many of us were speechless.

Employers often use injuries sustained at work as a reason to force workers into taking early retirement.

Around 100 people joined a march in Doncaster in support of journalists who are in their fourth week of an indefinite all-out strike against job cuts.

Riots of the poor and dispossessed spread through Britain this week. The police struggled to crush an uprising against their own racist brutality and poverty.

By Monday evening the rioting had spread outside London.

"This timebomb has been ticking for a long time.

The political establishment, or those bits that have returned from holiday, has lined up to condemn the riots.

From the Tory right to the liberals, politicians are calling for the government to arm the police further in order to crush the rioters.

These are dark days for journalism. As corruption and scandal have spewed out of News International and onto the doorstep of Downing Street, via Scotland Yard, it’s been easy to forget that there is another side to the news.