Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, the head of the civil service, is to step down from his post at the end of the year.

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UK’s top civil servant steps down

Indian activists dare the head of the country’s planning commission to live on half a dollar a day to test his claim that it is an adequate sum for an Indian villager to survive.

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Poverty line dare for India panel

Sudanese twins who were born joined at the head have been successfully separated by British doctors at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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Doctors separate conjoined twins

Len McCluskey – the head of Britain’s biggest union Unite – has said nothing should be ruled out when it comes to protests against government cuts.

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Union in civil disobedience call

Syria has canceled a visit by the head of the Arab League scheduled for Wednesday, citing unspecified “circumstances beyond our control” as anti-government protesters continued their calls for regime change.

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Syria cancels Arab League chief’s visit

The World Shakespeare Festival is the “trump card” putting “art at the heart of the Olympics”, the head of the Cultural Olympiad says.

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Shakespeare tops London festival

There are fewer clearing places available this year as universities accept more applicants directly, the head of admissions body Ucas says.

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Ucas: ‘Fewer places in clearing’

WASHINGTON — The government has made a change in its policy for patting down young children at airport checkpoints, and more are promised. Airport security workers will now be told to make repeated attempts to screen young children without resorting to invasive pat-downs, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday. The agency is working to put that change in place around the country, and it should reduce, but not eliminate, pat-downs for children, an agency spokesman said. Read full article > >

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WASHINGTON — The government has made a change in its policy for patting down young children at airport checkpoints, and more are promised. Airport security workers will now be told to make repeated attempts to screen young children without resorting to invasive pat-downs, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday. The agency is working to put that change in place around the country, and it should reduce, but not eliminate, pat-downs for children, an agency spokesman said. Read full article > >

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Leon E. Panetta, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, traveled to Pakistan with what the C.I.A. believed to be proof that Pakistani officials had tipped off militants about a raid.

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C.I.A. Director Warns Pakistan on Collusion With Militants

Claudia Millan, 29, was less than a block from her home when she was struck in the head, the police said.

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Bronx Woman Fatally Shot, Still Clutching Her 2-Year-Old

The UK risks becoming “yesterday’s country equipped with yesterday’s skills” if education cuts continue, the head of the UCU lecturers union is to warn.

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Lecturers warn over cost of cuts

A pub landlord accused of shooting his partner in the head and hiding her body in a freezer in Norfolk is found guilty of murder.

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Surgeons say a procedure to put a patch on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ skull was successful, and the Arizona Democrat is “recovering well.” After Giffords was shot in the head on Jan. 8, doctors removed a piece to allow pressure on her brain out. But with…

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Giffords Doing ‘Well’ After Surgery

In a turn of events that will throw French politics into turmoil, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was removed from an airplane at Kennedy Airport on Saturday and arrested on charges of rape. Law enforcement…

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