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Afghan police on patrol after the Taliban's co-ordinated assault in Kabul, Nangarhar, Logar and Paktia provinces.

Sub-Saharan states need to move to renewable energy sources as $15bn in aid is outstripped by $18bn in oil imports, says IEA A child stands near a gas flare at the Utorogu facility in the Nigeria.

Horrifying: the price of a UK first-class stamp is to rise to 12 shillings in old money.

Is reporting climate change different from other science journalism? How do we ensure science is reported in the public interest? Climate science is a relatively young field that lacks the infrastructure and cultural history of subjects like atomic physics or microbiology.

Alistair Cooke's most important advice to correspondents was to ensure they grasped 'the absolute importance of the US supreme court'. Photo: Arthur Rothstein/Corbis When Alistair Cooke was still alive , one of the first obligations of any recently arrived Guardian correspondent in the United States was to pay a courtesy call on the Guardian's ... (more)