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The soldier who chucked a grenade back at the Taliban

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Throwing arm

Andrew Harding reports from Harare on the uneasy mood among the white population and the MDC party as President Robert Mugabe says he’s ready for another term.

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Bitterness and unease in Zimbabwe

Memories make German islands a minefield for Britons

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Blasts of anger

The exotic, remote place an al-Qaeda group calls home

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Shaky Yemen

Alastair Cook’s patient century helps England move 43 ahead at 386-5 after three days of the second Test with South Africa.

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Cook ton guides England into lead

New Man City boss Roberto Mancini will take charge of his first Premier League game on a typically busy programme of football action on Boxing Day.

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Mancini prepares for Man City bow

Tonga’s 150-year-old monarchy is about to diminish as a democratically-elected parliament takes over, as John Pickford reports.

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Kingdom of Tonga sheds ‘19th Century’ image

Sudanese town caught between two armies

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Uneasy truce

PGA Tour chief Tim Finchem accepts Tiger Woods’s absence from the circuit will have an impact on golf but insists it is not all “doom and gloom”.

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PGA bullish despite Woods absence

John Pickford examines how people in Samoa have coped in the aftermath of the Pacific tsunami, which killed more than 170 people at the end of September.

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Samoa’s slow recovery after Pacific tsunami