Newspaper of the year | 23 February 2012 | Last updated 13 minutes ago
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- Fast-track asylum delays criticised - PA
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- Early morning attacks across Baghdad kill 22 - AP
- Gillard puts leadership to the vote - PA
- Feds crack down on rhino horn smuggling ring - AP
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- Iraqi officials say morning attacks across Baghdad have killed 22 people - AP
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Assad under fresh pressure after journalists killed
Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik die as shell hits safe house for journalists in Homs -
More UN peace-keepers for Somalia
Somali prime minister says he hopes conference in London will mark tipping point in country's fortunes -
A4e made jobless work in its offices
Welfare-to-work company sent unemployed to work in its own offices in an apparent conflict of interest -
Romney and Santorum trade barbs
Republican presidential hopefuls both tried but failed to land a winning blow in Arizona debate -
Iran blocks UN nuclear inspectors
International Atomic Energy Agency team prevented from visiting suspect site by authorities in Tehran -
Labour MP 'arrested over assault'
Eric Joyce is alleged to have headbutted and punched Tory MP Stuart Andrew in Commons bar -
Australian PM calls leadership ballot
Julia Gillard's decision to settle matter of Labor leadership follows resignation of foreign minister Kevin Rudd -
At least 49 dead in Argentina crash
Hundreds brought to hospital on helicopters after Buenos Aires train ploughs into barrier -
Cherie Blair to sue over hacking
Tony Blair's wife to take action over the alleged hacking of her phone by News of the World -
Sex-selection abortions investigated
Secret footage shows consultants at British clinics agreeing to abort foetuses because of their gender -
RBS to pay out £400m in bonuses
Bank prepares to pay out bonuses despite reporting its fourth consecutive year of losses -
Atkinson hits out at BBC ageism case
Actor says Miriam O'Reilly's case was an 'attack against creative industries' and that BBC should have been allowed to drop her -
German threats over bailout funds
Germany is at odds with Dutch and IMF boss over the European Stability Mechanism -
Gleick faces Heartland papers fight
Pacific Institute 'deeply concerned' about scientist's use of deception to obtain confidential documents -
Lansley wins NHS risk register battle
Labour motion demanding publication of document defeated despite growing disquiet among MPs -
Scottish vote 'can be held in 2013'
Salmond challenged to hold referendum earlier after as UK MPs insist it can go ahead in September 2013 -
Degree courses cut by 27%
There are now almost 20,000 fewer full-time undergraduate courses available than in 2006 -
Abbottabad health workers sacked
17 low-ranking Pakistani employees punished for unwittingly aiding CIA's plan to kill Osama bin Laden
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Will Self to become a professor
Maverick writer will be teaching contemporary thought to his students at Brunel university -
Is giving the finger still offensive?
Flipping the bird seems to be all the rage for female singers. But has the gesture lost its power to shock? -
Judah Passow's best shot
'She is waiting, with a kid on her back, for the Gambia River ferry. The barrier looks like a giant chocolate bar' -
Lynda Benglis: 'Now you are ready'
Four decades after she posed naked with a giant dildo to advertise an exhibition, Lynda Benglis is having her first UK retrospective -
The perils of the Oscar interview
Highly choreographed yet prone to mishap, the red carpet moment should get more prominence -
Breivik play to be staged in Oslo
Second production of play based on manifesto of mass murderer to be staged in city where attack began
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Faith in Villas-Boas slowly eroding
Chelsea's defeat at Napoli has spread alarm among the club's hierarchy, and Roman Abramovich's patience is being sorely tested -
Pearce set to gamble on youth
Stuart Pearce has indicated he will name a young and experimental squad to face Holland at Wembley next week -
Daley 'can't have his cake and eat it'
Tom Daley should not be the Olympic poster boy and absolve himself of responsibility to win a medal, says Australian diver Matthew Mitcham
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Brits and ITV apologise to Adele
The singer who flipped the bird wins an apology after her best album acceptance speech is cut short at the Brit awards -
Music Weekly podcast: Brits verdict
Did Ed Sheeran, Rihanna, Blur and co put on a good show? Or was Adele being cut off the most exciting moment of the Brits?
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Stan Greenberg on GOP race
Economist and Democratic pollster says presidential candidate may not be winner of primaries -
Video: The Greek debt crisis: it's, like, totally over (2min 59sec)
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Video: London fashion week: Jonathan Saunders interview (7min 06sec)
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Video: London 2012: table tennis player Joanna Parker (5min 51sec)
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Remi Ochlik's photojournalism
The French photographer Remi Ochlik has died in Syria after a shell hit a safe house for journalists in Homs. Here we display some of his work -
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