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The US and UK have very different attitudes to military leaders, says David Cannadine.

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First class degrees have almost doubled in the past 15 years – so are students cleverer or are standards slipping?

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It’s not Sydney and it’s not Melbourne – so why are British people travelling 12,000 miles in record numbers to live in Brisbane?

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Peers are debating proposals to encourage low carbon technologies in the market place.

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Conservative MP Dan Byles is leading an adjournment debate on the role of part-time firefighters.

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Andy Schleck takes over the yellow jersey after a punishing stage nine of the Tour de France, leaving previous holder Cadel Evans in his wake.

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Additional funds needed to construct the Iter fusion reactor will have to come from within the EU’s budget, member states say.

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France’s lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approves a ban on wearing the Islamic full veil in public.

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The defence secretary says UK and Afghan troops will continue to work together, after an Afghan killed three British Army soldiers.

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Scotland’s largest police force brings in an immediate recruitment freeze in response to ongoing budget uncertainty.

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Tasers used by police attempting to stop gunman Raoul Moat from killing himself did not have Home Office approval, it emerges.

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An Iranian nuclear scientist at the centre of an abduction row is free to leave the United States, US officials say.

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A leading traditionalist warns it is ‘inevitable’ people will leave the Church of England after it voted to move ahead with allowing women bishops.

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BP will do a key test on its leaking Gulf of Mexico well to see if the flow of oil can be shut off with the help of the newly-installed cap.

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Is £200,000 too much for a head teacher?

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