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A private security company responsible for holding immigration detainees received more than 700 complaints last year
Louis Armstrong bought his first cornet at a New Orleans pawnshop, when he was 15 years old.
Kendell Geers' Hanging Piece makes reference to modernist sculpture and South African political history
Whenever national strikes have been threatened in this century, ears have been pricked to detect the distant echoes of those in the last one
1959: Number 17 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk music
A grim irony of Mexico's failed offensive against drug trafficking is that the US has supplied cartels with guns – deliberately even
Hunger is not a natural disaster – it's a political problem. And G20 leaders can and must act to end this scandal
It was about two years ago. I was returning from a weekend trip to France and found myself in a long queue of traffic on a dual carriageway just outside the port of Calais
Report reveals threat of civil unrest from energy shortages, which has been played down as 'alarmist' by ministers
Up to 750,000 public sector workers could take part in a co-ordinated strike later this month over pension changes, job cuts and a pay freeze.
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