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Students demonstrate at Indonesian parliament Indonesian police fired teargas and warning shots at 10,000 student demonstrators who stormed the gates of the parliament in Jakarta demanding...
Students demonstrate at Indonesian parliament Indonesian police fired teargas and warning shots at 10,000 student demonstrators who stormed the gates of the parliament in Jakarta demanding...
FINANCIAL TIMES Every college and university in Wales is to appoint an academic as "entrepreneurship champion" as part of a £50m four-year project to remedy the shortage of business start-ups. The...
Call to combat animal rights extremists Scientists have urged the home secretary to strengthen proposed laws to combat animal rights extremists. The Research Defence Society said ...
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Start the Week (9.00 am R4). Slovenian sociologist Slavoj Zizek is among Paxman's guests. » Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Monteverdi. The Real Captain Bligh (11.00 am R4). The...
SATURDAY January » Breaking the Seal : Domesday (9.30 am BBC2). The Open University begins a re-run of its series on archives, first broadcast last year, with the Domesday Book. Verdi Day (from 9.00...
Chasing Shadows

As the Labour Party quietly celebrates its centenary, Gordon Marsden finds continuities between Labour old and new. Anniversaries are tricky affairs. Certainly they give an opportunity to highlight...
The Albert Memorial
Form Follows Finance - The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940
Delhi: the Built Heritage
Emperors of Dreams
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a hard-boiled novel (and film) about Los Angeles: " It was one of the mixed blocks over on Central...