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Guardian UnlimitedLuggage blast could have holed Quantas jet
An explosion in the baggage hold or a broken panel may have caused Qantas airplane emergency
Panic as binge women try to 'get some air' at 30,000ft
Two British women cause panic on flight from Greece after attacking cabin staff
Njide Ugboma: Elegant, beautiful, historic ... and black
Njide Ugboma:Even when the models are not channelling their inner queen of the jungle, advertisers have tended to pen black models into specific areas
Paddy Ashdown: Bosnia is on the edge again
Paddy Ashdown: As the arrest of Radovan Karadzic is celebrated, we ignore warnings that the politics of his country are increasingly fractured
Barbara Ellen: It takes a real man to say he enjoys tofu
Barbara Ellen: To stand up and be counted as a male vegetarian must require cojones of immense size
The week that brought Gordon Brown to the brink. Can he survive?
A disastrous drubbing in Glasgow East means his time is now measured by his own ministers in weeks, not months
Olympics threatened by Islamic separatists
Beijing Games organisers play down threat as Turkestan Islamic Party warns of impending attacks
Wave of bomb blasts kills 29 and injures 88 as Indian city targeted
Up to 16 separate small bombs go off in Ahmedabad the day after Bangalore was rocked by seven explosions
New Lisbon vote would be suicide for Cowen
Public would punish party if a second EU referendum is held, says poll
One woman's fight to save the pit bulls
Sara Gunther is providing a refuge for the 'dogs of death' that can be put down under British law
Balkans: Guilty men
Others guilty of crimes against humanity
Empty stares of prisoners wondering what comes next
Extract from Ed Vulliamy's 1992 article exposing the existence of Bosnian Serb concentration camps
Karadzic lawyers fight extradition
War crimes tribunal in Hague still waiting to receive captured Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic
The Observer Profile: David Axelrod
Profile: Now the presidential hopeful and his power broker David Axelrod are within sight of the White House
World news in brief
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Role of energy giants in UK
Problems inside France's nuclear industry could not come at a worse time for Britain
Qantas air drama at 29,000ft: a boom, a rush of air, then holed jumbo makes emergency dive
Massive 2.5 to 3 metre hole that ripped open the fuselage was only discovered after aircraft landed
Credit crunch: Australian bank adds £480m to write-downs
National Australia Bank suffers biggest one-day fall in share price since 1987 crash to unsettle banking sector
The retreat from Moscow
Analysts suspect BP's Russian venture is a sinking dream and even question firm's vulnerability to takeover
Terry Philpot, Face to faith: The Catholic church is doing little to protect priests
The Catholic church has done much lately to protect children, but little to protect priests, says Terry Philpot
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