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• Banks will have to accept lower profits, finance watchdog warns

  Oct 12 2008:

  International group say post-credit crunch world will mean greater caution and smaller returns

• Tourism beats aid

  Oct 12 2008:

  Mike Power: Want to help Colombia escape its violent past? Come here and spend your cash

• Robot girl mix up

  Oct 12 2008:

  How "cut and paste journalism" created one robot out of two.

• Brown calls for EU-wide banking system bail-out

  Oct 12 2008:

  PM holds key talks with European officials desperate to prevent continent-wide meltdown in banking sector

• Water: a source of Middle East peace?

  Oct 12 2008:

  Václav Havel et al: Nations in the region are using more water than arrives on a renewable basis. Cooperating to secure it is the only way forward

• A hero of the Crimean war

  Oct 12 2008:

  Tim Campbell: Mary Seacole's entrepreneurial skill and dedication to helping others through nursing makes her a perfect role model

• Politics, war and religion - how Hollywood learned to do serious

  Oct 12 2008:

  From Che Guevara to the Iraq war, US studios will unleash an unprecedented clutch of heavyweight films

• Without real leadership, we face disaster

  Oct 12 2008:

  Will Hutton: A lethal new threat is emerging at the dark heart of the financial system. We must have a unified global response or an already perilous position will become a calamity

• A new order must be imposed on the City

  Oct 12 2008:

  Editorial: British banks guessed that they are so vital to the economy that politicians would never let them fail

• TV contest tries to change the face of beauty

  Oct 12 2008:

  Gok Wan's new show to judge women on their confidence, sex appeal, spirit and brains

• Mandelson to pocket a £1m Brussels pay-off

  Oct 12 2008:

  Business Secretary eligible for 'golden goodbye' after just four years as Britain's European Commissioner

• Power deal crisis as top jobs seized by Mugabe

  Oct 12 2008:

  Mugabe attempts 'ambush' by claiming all key cabinet posts and control of the state security forces

• Election pendulum swings back to Obama in Ohio's dying downtowns

  Oct 12 2008:

  Sarah Palin may be making all the headlines but in Canton it has always been about the economy

• Children die in flat fire

  Oct 12 2008:

  Five people die in New York apartment as some take refuge in bathtub and underneath sink

• Canoeing star's eggs frozen for babies after 2012 Olympics

  Oct 12 2008:

  Helen Barnes believes operation will allow her to train for games without sacrificing motherhood

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