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  1. Mother who fled failed marriage faces extradition battle - A mother who fled to Britain with her three children more than a decade ago to escape a failed marriage is facing extradition to America charged with child kidnapping.
  2. Taxpayers' money spent to boost Barroso's profile as Commission president - Journalists' expenses will be paid if they accompany the European Commission president on foreign trips, in a new public relations drive which will cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of euros.
  3. Nicolas Sarkozy's Roma crisis leaves his presidency still teetering on the brink - Nicolas Sarkozy hoped his plan to expel the Roma would help his faltering presidency back on track. But it has made him even more enemies.
  4. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may end up as Genghis Khan with a nuclear bomb - Iran will not be shamed into abandoning stoning, or its nuclear ambitions, says Alasdair Palmer.
  5. 'You are lucky you don't have to eat each other to stay alive," plane crash survivors tell trapped miners - Chilean miners trapped deep below ground for a month have heard words of support from former rugby players who survived by cannibalism after an Andean plane crash.
  6. A cunning bid to shore up the ruins of the IPCC - The Inter-Academy report into the IPCC, led by Rajendra Pachauri, tiptoes around a mighty elephant in the room, argues Christopher Booker.
  7. New Zealand earthquake: picking up the pieces - Following the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealanders are assessing the damage and trying to restore order.
  8. Protests around France against Sarkozy's Roma policy - French trade unions took to the streets against the government's policy on immigrants, tightening security and pension reforms on which Sarkozy has staked his political reputation.
  9. New Zealand earthquake: state of emergency declared in Christchurch - A state of emergency has been declared after an earthquake hit one of New Zealand's largest cities.
  10. Hamid Karzai sets up 'peace council' to pursue talks with the Taliban - Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has set up a peace council to pursue talks with the Taliban, his palace has announced.