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Published 28 February 2008

We test the temperature of the nation this week

raincloud

Floods displace thousands of families in Philippines

Truancy in English schools hits highest level since 1997

IPCC in crisis as more than a hundred lawyers resign from police watchdog’s advisory body

raincloud

UK prisons face huge pressure as number of inmates passes 82,000 for the first time

Serbia condones riots over Kosovar independence

South Africa will allow elephants to be culled for first time in 13 years

cloud and sun

National Grid is fined £41.6m for “anti-competitive behaviour”

New York Philharmonic Orchestra performs in North Korea

Manchester is offered millions for regeneration after supercasino loss

sun

4,000 midwives to be recruited into NHS

United States finally agrees to set binding climate goals

First global seed bank will preserve samples of all known crops for future generations

Summary: Slight breeze of change in Cuba as Raúl Castro, unsurprisingly, replaces Fidel

Forecast: Improved visibility in US presidential contest expected soon

Edmund Gordon

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