Tuesday 3 November 2009

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Western democracy is not what Afghanistan needs

‘Bottom-up’ tribal system would have been the best way to stop corruption

Czech court rules Lisbon Treaty can be signed

The Mole: Cameron's pledge to hold a British referendum goes in the bin

How China learned to fix the weather

Beijing snowfall was created by cloud-seeding to help solve water shortages

Simon Mann ‘freed’ by the president he tried to oust

British soldier of fortune is pardoned after serving only one year of a 34-year sentence

Rio Ferdinand strongly defended by Alex Ferguson

Man Utd manager launches a broadside at critics of the England centre back

Even the great Neil Simon can flop on Broadway

In the age of The Office and The Hangover, the public taste in comedy has moved on

Fernando Torres battles hernia to play against Lyon

The Spaniard is one of seven walking wounded flying out to France with Liverpool

What they are saying about the sacking of Prof Nutt

Pick of the media comment on a fundamental clash of science and politics

London's X-philes

A new diagonal pedestrian crossing has opened at London's Oxford Circus