Newspaper of the year | 10 September 2011
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- Breivik stands by militia claim - PA
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- US condemns attacks on West Bank mosques - AP
- Lawson: axe 'foolish' 50p tax rate - PA
- Ex-Mass. House Speaker DiMasi sentenced to 8 years - AP
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How MI6 deal sent family to Gaddafi's jail
Exclusive: Libyan reveals how wife and children were 'rendered' before Tony Blair visit -
NYC on alert over terror warning
Police stopping vans and lorries after reports that a car bomb was planned to disrupt Sunday's 9/11 anniversary -
Israeli embassy in Cairo broken into
Storming of building comes after demonstrations two days before Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits country -
Syrian soldier defections increase
News comes amid reports of troops being executed over refusals to target anti-Assad protesters -
MPs' planning regulations 'hypocrisy'
Osborne and Pickles push for planning changes but oppose developments in their own constituencies -
IMF: Britain may have to change tack
Christine Lagarde says UK may have to alter fiscal deficit reduction plan if economy struggles to recover -
AOL and Yahoo 'in merger talks'
AOL chief sounds out Yahoo's advisers over combination of internet companies -
1,000 join Duggan funeral cortege
Community leaders call for unity and peace at the funeral service of man whose shooting sparked riots -
Project Gutenberg founder dies
Michael Stern Hart created the free online ebook library long before the advent of Kindle or Nook -
Free school critics 'defending failure'
David Cameron pledges to raise education standards and raises prospect of eliminating illiteracy -
Markets dip after Stark resignation
German ECB official's decision to quit fuels speculation that central bank policymakers are split over Greece -
Colombia makes Farc top priority
Defence minister Juan Carlos Pinzón sworn in with instructions to come up with definitive strategy -
Lib Dem donor on run in Caribbean
Michael Brown, who gave party £2.4m, is now hiding in the Dominican Republic under a false British identity -
GP referrals fall amid 'rationed care'
Data shows 4.7% fewer patients referred for first hospital consultation in April-July period of this year
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Fukushima disaster: it's not over yet
Six months after the meltdowns, the streets have been cleared but the psychological damage remains -
Interview: Vanessa Redgrave
The actor and activist talks about bad habits, brother Corin and why the battle for the beleaguered Travellers of Dale Farm matters so much to her -
Bad science: statistical errors
The same mistakes are appearing throughout the most prestigious journals in neuroscience -
The mad scramble for school places
How far will you go to get your kids into the right school? Zoe Williams on the parental paranoia that leaves principles at the school gate -
Are party conferences any use?
TV newsman Gary Gibbon and writer Mary Ann Sieghart debate the usefulness of the parties' big annual get-togethers -
Hitchens: 9/11 to the Arab spring
Over the past decade Christopher Hitchens has taken a combative stance on world events. He reflects on these writings -
Lenny Kaye: 'learning how to gallop'
As a new compilation, Outside Society, brings together the best of their work, the guitarist recalls life in the Patti Smith Group -
Walliams takes on the river Thames
Zoe Williams watches from the towpath as crowds come to support the comedian's 140-mile swim -
Best in show: knit your own cat
A dose of feline fun to satisfy the most fanatic fan, here are 10 knitted cats from a brand new book
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Photographers recall a day of horror
Photographers describe the carnage they saw and explain the power of pictures to capture a moment- Did 9/11 really change the world for ever?
- Is al-Qaida a spent force?
- News anchor's view: 'suddenly there was mayhem'
- Pregnant survivors transmitted trauma to children
- Mona Eltahawy: being a Muslim in post-9/11 US
- Share your memories of 9/11 10 years on
- Interactive guide: 10 years of terror attacks
- 9/11 memories: the story behind your submissions
- NY fashion week to lift spirits on 9/11 anniversary
- Paul McCartney's 9/11 film to premiere at Toronto
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9/11 stories: Second Skull
A new short story by Rob Magnuson Smith, part of a series by different authors for the 9/11 anniversary
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Murray reaches US Open semi-final
Andy Murray experienced a familiar meltdown in the third set against John Isner before winning the tie-break in the fourth -
England win, but India show fight
England won a rain-affected one-day international in which India at last showed some promise at the end of a long, hard summer
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De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
Steve Rose celebrates the modernist pavilion that rebranded the experience of British seaside towns -
UK architecture: an autobiography
Identifying architecture is like learning a language: if you learn its secrets you can read dramatic tales of kings and heretics, fires and revolutions
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Black magic: New Zealand by night
New Zealand's seas and starlit skies are another world, says Jonathan Freedland -
A taste of the old South Pacific in Fiji
On Vanua Balavu, Kevin Rushby gets a taste of the old South Pacific – giving gifts to the chief and swimming with sharks
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Werner Herzog on Into the Abyss
The director talks about his death row documentary – 'a gaze into the abyss of the human soul' -
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