Last updated: 2 march, 2010 - 15:21 GMT
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One Hundred Days to Go
Preparations for the football World Cup are in their final stages in South Africa. It's the first time the contest is being held in Africa, and there's great excitement across the continent. But is spending such a large sum of money on a sporting event justified in a society with shortages of basic housing and services?
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Child migrants get UK apology after 40 years
Former child migrants have received an apology from the British government for its part in sending 130,000 children to former colonies under a controversial migrant programme that ended forty years ago. Newshour's Julian Marshall talks to Tony Costa about his experiences.
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Is Gordon a bully?
Political journalist Andrew Rawnsley provokes a storm of controversy with claims in his new book that UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown bullies his staff and that he's been warned by the country's top civil servant to back off.
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