The co-chair of the Conservative Party is facing Labour calls for an inquiry into her accommodation expenses.

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Warsi’s expenses under scrutiny

Crows recognise and respond to familiar human voices and the calls of other bird species, according to researchers.

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Crows know familiar human voices

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt rejects Labour calls for him to resign over claims about his role in News Corp’s bid for BSkyB.

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Labour calls for Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to resign after Leveson Inquiry evidence on News Corp’s BSkyB bid, but Mr Hunt says he acted with ‘scrupulous fairness’.

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Hunt urged to quit over BSkyB bid

Labour calls for the government to reverse planned cuts to police funding in the wake of rioting and disorder across English cities.

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Miliband: Rethink police cuts

Rebecca Mansour, a top aide to Sarah Palin, sent a series of revelatory direct messages on Twitter roughly a year ago that were recently forwarded to The Daily Caller. The inflammatory messages to an online pal show that Palin, whom Mansour calls…

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MPs back the government’s Education Bill, which ministers say will “restore discipline and reduce bureaucracy” in schools, but Labour calls a “gamble”.

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MPs vote for school reform plans

Scotland’s video games companies are hoping an influential report will back their calls for the industry to receive tax breaks.

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Tax hopes over video games report

CAIRO – As pro-democracy demonstrators vowed to bring 1 million people to the streets of Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak offered a gesture of conciliation on Monday, directing his new vice president to begin talks with his opponents about changes to the country’s constitution.

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Egyptian opposition calls for massive protest; foreigners flee

Prime Minister David Cameron rejects Labour calls for a U-turn on the economy after a surprise fall in GDP.

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‘We’ll stick to course’ – Cameron

Pakistan’s minorities minister and an MP tell the BBC they will defy death threats they have received for their calls to reform blasphemy laws.

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Blasphemy reformer death threats

TUCSON – President Obama comforted a community suffused with grief and summoned the nation to recommit to a more civil public discourse as he delivered a eulogy Wednesday evening urging Americans to talk with each other “in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”

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Obama calls for healing, not blame

KABUL – President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that the United States must reduce the visibility and intensity of its military operations in Afghanistan and end the increased U.S. Special Operations forces night raids that aggravate Afghans and could exacerbate the Taliban insurgency.

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Karzai calls on U.S. to lighten troop presence

Gandhi is revered in India, but his calls for personal austerity and nonviolence have proved antithetical to the goals of an aspiring economic and military power.

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Obama Invokes Gandhi, Whose Ideal Eludes Modern India

Christopher Winfield said he tried to raise the alarm about an alleged thrill-kill cult inside the U.S. military in Afghanistan but that his calls went to voice mail and his warnings were ignored.

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GI’s dad: Thrill-kill cult in military