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Nancy Pelosi talks on desertion in Congress

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Mysterious case of Russia’s ‘Zuckerberg’

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Chelsea Flower Show: Centenary special

Landscapes, gizmos and erotic plants by the world’s leading garden makers
Investigation: How Qatar seized control of a revolution

Why is the small Gulf state playing such a big role in Syria’s revolution? Roula Khalaf and Abigail Fielding-Smith report
Wrinkle-free zone

How far do you want to roll back the years?

From UK 4:05pm

Fury as senior Tory calls activists ‘loons’

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron leaves after the funeral service of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in St Paul's Cathedral in London

Prime minister under pressure to discipline aide over ‘act of lunacy’

From MARKETS 12:00am

Backlash to hit scandal-tainted City

Executives of miner ENRC to face grilling

From WORLD 12:41pm

Hollande signs gay marriage into law

France becomes ninth European country to allow full marriage

Video France approves gay marriage
Simon Kuper Preaching to the unconverted

From COMPANIES May 17, 2013

EU bonus cap to catch more bankers

Regulator widens definition of staff affected by clampdown

From COMPANIES May 17, 2013

US energy revolution gathers pace

Obama approves wider LNG exports as door opens to Japan and EU

Person in the news: Jamie Dimon

Joe Cummings' illustration of Jamie Dimon

Should America’s most famous banker remain chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase?

The HIV hunter

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

©Roberto Frankenberg

Thirty years ago Françoise Barré-Sinoussi found a virus in an Aids patient. It won her a Nobel Prize

From WORLD May 17, 2013

EU regulates restaurant olive oil bottles

Move defended as necessary to protect diners from fraud

Syrian demo

©AFP From WORLD 11:56pm

US condemns Russia over Syria missiles

Pentagon warns anti-ship arms will embolden Assad

From GLOBAL ECONOMY May 17, 2013

Global economy lacking demand growth

For every nation reporting good news, there are weaker data elsewhere

Man sitting on a sofa watching tv with hands folded behind his head

©Dreamstime From UK 11:33pm

Singleton households dominate marketing

Data show nearly twice as many one-person homes as family ones

Single-minded

Sam Palmisano

©Bloomberg From COMPANIES May 17, 2013

Ex-IBM chief to lead Bloomberg review

Company steps up response to privacy concerns

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Temples at Lalish

On holiday in Iraq where the horrors of tyranny are being replaced by hospitality and hope

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Image of the giant, active galaxy NGC 1275 was taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in July and August 2006. It provides amazing detail and resolution of fragile filamentary structures, which show up as a reddish lacy structure surrounding the central bright galaxy

©Getty Darwin’s theory of natural selection is helping cosmologists understand the universe

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©Raymond Biesinger Are online friends good for the soul? Not really according to a number of studies

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