Wednesday, 6 October 2010

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Wednesday: The First Post's super-quick catch-up on the main news talking points, sponsored by Saab

Paris fashion week

In pictures: Highlights from the Spring/Summer 2011 shows

Gamu’s exit isn’t racism - she didn’t fit the script

Johnny Dee: Justice can be done if Cheryl Cole saves Gamu with a ‘wildcard’

Saudi prince ‘battered his manservant to death’

Sexual element to attack by King Abdullah's grandson on his companion at London hotel, court hears

Liverpool ‘sold’ to Boston Red Sox owners

But civil war breaks out as Hicks and Gillett try to block the sale and sack the board

McQueen protégé Burton wows Paris with pagan chic

New creative director brings Alexander McQueen alive in Paris but adds her own romantic touch

Toxic alumina mud flood in Hungary

In pictures: Hungarian villagers have been evacuated after a two metre-deep flood of contaminated mud

Why has graphene won a Nobel Prize?

The atom-thick layer of carbon could replace silicon in the technology of the future

‘Communist Facebook’ gets a shrug from Vietnamese

The Party goes online: Vietnam gets its own, state-run social networking site