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'Excessive' use of face-down restraint
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:04:06 GMT

Ministers are considering a ban on face-down restraint in English mental hospitals as figures show the technique is being widely used.

Assange vows to stay in embassy
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:01:50 GMT

Wikileaks website founder Julian Assange vows to remain in the Ecuadorian embassy in London even if accusations of sex crimes are dropped.

In pictures: Brazil protest banners
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:38:06 GMT

Mass protests in Brazil

Day in pictures: 18 June 2013
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:59:58 GMT

Twenty-four hours of news photos: 18 June

In pictures: Singapore haze
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:24:00 GMT

Forest fires in Indonesia create haze

In pictures: On solid ground
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:00:01 GMT

Marking World Refugee Day

In pictures: Afghan army's elite special forces
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:49:44 GMT

Thwarting high-profile militant attacks

Day in pictures: 17 June 2013
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:05:59 GMT

Twenty-four hours of news photos: 17 June

In pictures: Tanzania's traditional healers
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:30:29 GMT

Healers in Tanzania’s southern highlands

In pictures: India's dying telegram service
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:34:39 GMT

Images from the last days of India's telegram service

The air force pilot who took her baby on missions
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:30:48 GMT

The air force pilot who took her daughter on missions

Glimmers of hope in Detroit
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:14:22 GMT

Is down-at-heel Detroit on the brink of a comeback?

How Israel keeps Holocaust memories alive
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:43:30 GMT

As witnesses die, will the Holocaust be forgotten?

Russia: Faberge eggs symbol of power
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:56:56 GMT

Russia falls again for eggs once despised as tsar’s playthings

Apartheid's roots: The Natives Land Act
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:21:57 GMT

The 100-year-old law still dividing South Africa