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Dr Liam Fox

World must neutralise Tehran’s threat

Iran’s pursuit of the bomb and its sponsoring of terror has to be met with sanctions that bite

Frank Skinner

I look like a python that’s eaten a goat

Those 12 hours of telly a day, combined with the intake of a five-man Everest expedition, take their toll

How to avoid next year’s hangover

How was last night? Good? Indifferent? Positively awful? If the last, I’m betting you are English, and were in England

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A Christmas card to Times readers, from President Obama

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Antonia Senior

How to Kindle your love of e-reading

Surprisingly, it was love at first sight. It turns out it’s the words that count, not where they are read

James Charles

A tale of two downturns and debt

How money and wealth has fluctuated since 2000

The decade in international conflict

News from far corners of the globe makes the world seem more dangerous. But is it?

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Joan Bakewell
 

In this noisy, twittering world, loneliness is never talked about  

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Gulf of mistrust

The principal foreign policy challenge of 2010 will be to deal with an Iranian regime that destabilises its neighbours and suppresses its dissidents

Age of austerity

Britain faces severe constraints on economic policy because of the budget deficit

Professing poetry

The best medal a poet could wish for is a wider readership

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Vatican defends sainthood move for wartime pope

Jewish groups have reacted angrily to the current Pope’s approval of a decree recognising the 'heroic virtues' of Pius XII

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Santiago braces itself for the Holy Year bonanza

The pilgrimage to the shrine of St James at Santiago de Compostela is experiencing its greatest popularity since the Middle Ages

Rural idyll where priest lived in fear

Mutterings of dark forces after rector says he was bullied

'Shakespeare was a secret Catholic’

Mysterious signatures at a Catholic college in Rome suggest that the playwright sought refuge there during his “missing years”

Faith Central

Saint or sinner? Susanna Maiolo

Obituaries  

Tim Hart

Tim Hart

Pioneer of the electrification of English folk music in the late 1960s and founding member of the band Steeleye Span

Stennett-Willson

Ronnie Stennett-Willson

Glassmaker, designer and salesman who introduced the Swedish style to Britain and provided inspiration for Terence Conran

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Russian film star who made his name internationally in the 1967 version of War and Peace and was honoured by his countrymen

Rusty Kanokogi

Judo champion who won the right for woman to compete in the sport at the Olympic Games after a long battle with the IOC

Robert Enke

Obituaries in the news

Lives that made headlines in death: from Germany's goalkeeper Robert Enke and the pop icon Michael Jackson, to the stage and film actress Natasha Richardson

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No Trade in Hostages

The welcome release of a British captive in Iraq cannot obscure the depravity of the crime and the futility of bargaining with kidnappers

Lack of buyers threatens UK housing recovery

New-buyer registrations have fallen, raising prospect of further falls in prices over the next year

Tories deny wanting 'licence to kill burglars'

Lawyers say it would be unwise to go beyond allowing people to use "reasonable force" to protect themselves and their homes

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Lessons on loneliness from a life in solitary

For the elderly, small human contacts can keep the threads of optimism and sanity intact

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