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A warning from British MPs to their government to avoid any complicity with torture.

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British MPs warn their government that accepting intelligence from foreign interrogations could make them complicit with torture. Show more

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Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.

Another chance to hear the best of World Service interviews. Owen Bennett-Jones talks to former CIA Field Officer Larry Devlin.

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The power struggle within the Taliban in Pakistan and controversial reality TV in India.

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In Something Understood this week Mark Tully celebrates cricket as a symbol of an ideal society, with historian Ramanchandra Guha.

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Lots of philosophical thinking in Business Weekly. Just how much say should the state have in our personal choices? And what role should mathematics now play in the markets? Show more

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Leadership crises for three of the world's main militant groups. And a survivor of the world's biggest yachting disaster tells us why he's competing again in the same race Show more

Havoc is wreaked by Typhoon Morakot and controversy over the Badminton World Championship.

In Something Understood this week Mark Tully celebrates cricket as a symbol of an ideal society, with historian Ramanchandra Guha.

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Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.

BBC News reports from around the world.

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