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Memoirs: whose truth – and does it matter? 

Two years after the James Frey scandal, a still-roiled genre thrives

 

 

 

Deal for US nature reserve hailed

Agreement to preserve huge area of wilderness as home to condors, bears, elks, turkeys and eagles

 

 

 

Photographer's papers reveal image-conscious Larkin
May 7: Poet's downbeat letters to Fay Godwin among archive acquired by British Library
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China to modernise nuclear weapons

China is undertaking a dramatic overhaul of its nuclear weapons in an effort to modernise and expand its arsenal.

• China puts Olympic flame on Everest

• Chinese Olympic 'thugs' pictured training

 

Rough Guide to England, an irritating place

England, once famed for its high culture and good manners, has been dismissed in a new travel guide as home to "overweight, binge-drinking, reality TV addicts".

• Are the English "overweight, binge drinking, reality TV addicts"?

 

Hizbollah 'ready for war' in Lebanon Hizbollah has declared it is "ready for war" with the Lebanese government as the country suffers its worst sectarian fighting in almost two decades.

• Israel celebrates its 60th birthday

• Israel boycott row reignites

 

Putin: Russia will overtake UK economy Vladimir Putin has boasted that Russia's economy will overtake Britain's this year as he was declared Russia's prime minister.

 

Mugabe's mobs force 40,000 to flee  Around 40,000 Zimbabwean farm workers have had to flee as a result of the violence since the country’s general election.

• Zimbabwe farm workers 'forced to flee'

 

Eat like a caveman for a healthy heart A “caveman diet” of berries, nuts, lean meat and fish could help reduce the risk of developing heart disease, study shows.

• Persuade a woman? Do it face to face

 

 

 

 

The hottest May on record This month is predicted to be the hottest May on record with high temperatures expected to continue for another week.

• The hottest day of the year

• Child's drowning sparks water warning

• Hedgehogs arrive early with warm weather

• Global warming threatens koala bears

• Warm weather arrives

 

 

 

Prince Wii William Wins game of Wii tennis after challenge on visit.