Venezuela: Livingstone to advise Chávez on urban issues
Former London mayor to take up role as consultant on policing, transport and other municipal issues in Caracas

Anti-violence groups call for ban
Pressure groups demand tougher controls on deactivated firearms following Berkshire gun bust

Ascension Island. Barren, 4,044 miles from Land's End, but ours says the FO
Life as normal on British territorial outpost as its volcanic rock takes centre stage at United Nations

Guilty: the man who ran a garden-shed gun factory linked to nine murder scenes
Replica conversion racket responsible at one point for a fifth of all shootings in London, experts believe

US warning to court in alleged torture case
Disclosure of information in case of alleged UK torture victim could cause damage to US security relations

Exodus across London as 120 evicted squatters move into homes for veterans
Five-month stay in MoD property ends in repossession of Balham housing estate

Prison officers join critics of Titan superjails
Turnkeys latest addition to list of 34 criminal justice organisations objecting to new detention plans

Europe must stand up to Russia says UK after Georgia crisis
Miliband says west must re-examine every aspect of relations with Moscow

Seumas Milne: Georgia is the graveyard of America's unipolar world
Seumas Milne: Russia's defiance in the Caucasus has brought down the curtain on Bush senior's new world order - not before time

Hadley Freeman: Only the clotheshorses can buck fashion's thin fixation
Hadley Freeman: The labels won't, and nor will the glossies. It takes the likes of Kate Moss to challenge the addiction to skinny models

Roy Hattersley: It's a windfall. Now share it
Roy Hattersley: Energy firms' profits are unearned. In hard times, it is intolerable that they cash in as people go cold

Mystery of missing millionaire, wife and daughter after home is set ablaze
Police wait for all clear to investigate possible arson attack on remote three-storey mansion

Matt Scott: Just how bad was our Olympics show?
Matt Scott: Having to project London's Olympic credentials to an audience of 1.5 billion in only eight minutes was never going to be easy

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