George Osborne was on Wednesday urged by the International Monetary Fund to rethink his plans for a £10bn tax-and-spending squeeze this year, as part of a broad based attack on the coalition's economic policies.After a fortnight's fact-finding mission in

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Hit the austerity pause button. Invest more in social housing, schools and road repairs. Growth is more important in the short term than deficit reduction. Couched in suitably polite language, that was the uncomfortable message from the International Mone

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Business

Gareth Bale has admitted he found Tottenham Hotspur's latest failure to qualify for the Champions League hard to stomach. Bale rounded off a remarkable season on Sunday by scoring his 26th goal of the campaign, but his winner against Sunderland was not en

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Sports

An Oxford philosopher this week described their drug experiences in a survey by online student newspaper the Tab. "Having dinner with parents while seeing the world in monochrome and feeling supremely dizzy! I think my speech was barely coherent.&quo

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Of course Google doesn't want to pay its taxes to the British crown, like a loyal corporate subject. In Google's mind it secretly thinks that it is now something like a state, and we are all its subjects. It is we who should pay tribute to it – and we do.

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Technology

In the grip of its longest recession and battling problems from soaring youth unemployment to bank credit stagnation, the eurozone has more than enough to worry about as it is.But now there are reports of a fresh and rather more basic challenge to the sin

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Kenya's president has received a long-awaited report that names him and his deputy as being among those suspected of planning and financing the country's 2007-08 post-election violence, in which more than 1,000 people died.Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto

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A Russian space capsule containing mice, ghekos, gerbils, snails and fish returns to earth after a month-long mission in space

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When the main US federal emergency agency arrives at the scene of a disaster-hit area, one of the first places it turns to is the local Waffle House – and not just for its officials to grab a quick bite.Craig Fugate, the head of the Federal Emergency Mana

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There are no shortage of scares to be found in new Channel 4 drama The Returned. Zombies, for a start, along with a series of gruesome murders and a cannibalistic serial killer.But the real shock, which once would have had viewers of a sensitive dispositi

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Hedgehogs are disappearing as fast as the tiger. And if the latter was roaming our countryside it might have more of a fighting chance: I wouldn't find two dead tigers squashed on the road within a mile of each other like the little prickly carcasses I sa

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Cheating students: you've probably had a few in your class. But cheating isn't always the sophisticated process some may think. According to Bernard Bull from Concordia University Wisconsin, who has set up a course for academics to look into why and how s

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George Osborne is preparing to set out his plans to return bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland to the private sector after the International Monetary Fund called on him to devise a "clear strategy" for the two banks.The Wa

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Syria's main opposition alliance has urged fighters from around the country to reinforce a rebel-held city under attack by government troops and Hezbollah militants.The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) sought to bolster on Wednesday embattled rebel fighter

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I am of the view that nobody's sex life is of concern to anybody else. OK, if you're cheating on your wife, that's of concern to your wife; if you're pregnant by someone other than your partner, that's a legitimate objection for your partner to raise, and

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Analysis by a clinical psychologist at Oxford University has shed new light on the gender disparity in mental health. How great are the differences between men and women? Take our quiz to find out

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