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Ministers deny torture collusion

Two cabinet ministers have strongly denied allegations of collusion in the abuse of terrorist suspects overseas.
But Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Home Secretary Alan Johnson said it was impossible to remove all risk when using intelligence obtained overseas.
This came as a committee of MPs urged a probe into the transfer of terror suspects through UK [...]

World powers accept warming limit

Developed and developing nations have agreed that global temperatures should not rise more than 2C above 1900 levels, a G8 summit declaration says.
That is the level above which, the UN says, the Earth’s climate system would become dangerously unstable.
US President Barack Obama said the countries had made important strides in dealing with climate change.
But the [...]

BBC info

The One Show and Watchdog’s Anita Rani is to turn the spotlight on skin-lightening treatments in a one-off documentary for BBC1.
Make Me White [working title] will look at the increasing pressure among Britain’s Asian and Afro-Caribbean communities to be pale and will ex-amine the booming trade in legal and illegal skin-lightening products.
Rani will also look [...]