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Tessa Jowell

The Independent
18 August 2008

Tessa Jowell: You Ask The Questions.

The Olympics minister answers your questions, such as which Cabinet member would win a Greco-Roman wrestling contest?

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Chris Smith

The Guardian
18 August 2008

Climate controls.

The chairman of the ASA on the problems of greenwash, why Andy Burnham shouldn't rule out product placement, and why Channel 4 deserves licence fee money more than BBC3.

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Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild

Fox News
17 August 2008

Hillraiser Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild whines on Fox News

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Yulia Tymoshenko

Financial Times
16 August 2008

Tea with the FT: Yulia Tymoshenko

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Hargrave McElroy

People
15 August 2008

The Edwards Affair: Elizabeth's 'Excruciating Anguish'

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards stunned the nation with his televised confession Aug. 8 that he had an extramarital affair.

Battling cancer that her doctors call incurable, his wife, Elizabeth, issued a statement in support of her husband – but how is she really doing?

"There was anguish – excruciating anguish – for her in dealing with this," Elizabeth's best friend Hargrave McElroy tells PEOPLE in its new issue.

Behind the public show of strength, the Edwards' household has been a scene of turmoil and tension since John, 55, first began revealing the truth about his affair with former campaign aide, Rielle Hunter, 44, after the formal launch of his campaign in the final days of 2006. "He told the truth slowly," according to one source close to the couple.

Elizabeth, 59, faced an agonizing choice: "Do I kick him out, or do we have a 30-year marriage that can be rebuilt?" says McElroy. The fact that she suffers from a terminal disease, one that could rob her children – Jack, 8, Emma Claire, 10 and Cate, 26, a student at Harvard Law School – of their mother, weighed heavily in her decision.

"She couldn't say, 'Well, maybe we'll work through this for years, or maybe we should separate for two years,'" adds Elizabeth's best friend. "[The cancer] forced her to choose whether to move forward."

The Edwardses have not, at least so far, sat down with their younger children to discuss the scandal. "The kids are, to a certain extent, oblivious," Elizabeth's brother Jay Anania tells PEOPLE, "but children are very wise and know things."

For more on Elizabeth Edwards' struggle to keep her family together, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday....

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Hoshyar Zebari

The Times
14 August 2008

Iraq minister: US combat troops to pull out in three years under new deal.

American soldiers will withdraw from cities across Iraq next summer and all US combat troops will leave the country within three years, provided the violence remains low, under the terms of a draft agreement with the Iraqi Government.

In one of the most detailed insights yet into the content of the deal, Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, has also told The Times that the US military would be barred from unilaterally mounting attacks inside Iraq from next year.

In addition, the power of arrest for US soldiers would be curbed by the need to hand over any detainee to a new, US-Iraqi committee. Troops would require the green light from this joint command before conducting any operation.

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Bill Clinton

The Guardian
12 August 2008

Bill Clinton: 'You had to assume there was going to be some blowback'

Sarah Boseley speaks to former US president Bill Clinton on climate change, Kyoto, AIDS and the American election.

The Guardian's health editor Sarah Boseley met former US president Bill Clinton in Rema, a hilltop village in northern Ethiopia.

It is the country's first solar-powered village with all 1100 mud huts fitted with a long-lasting electric light. Clinton believes this is the way to go and that it is even ahead of the US in looking at future energy needs.

He discusses Africa and why he thinks the continent has great potential; climate change and his frustration that president Bush removed the US from the Kyoto protocol; bikes in Paris and Denmark's energy solutions; circumcision, HIV and AIDS; why the US government needs to distance itself from the drug companies; plus Hillary, Chelsea, Obama and the presidential campaign.

He also discusses how the Guardian's sudoku puzzle helps with his jet lag.

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Caroline Lucas

The Independent
11 August 2008

Caroline Lucas: You Ask The Questions.

The MEP for South-East England answers your questions, such as 'What is your worst envirocrime? And will there be a Green PM?'

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Alex Salmond

Independent on Sunday
10 August 2008

Alex Salmond: The new king of Scotland

The Scottish Nationalists are riding high in the polls and savouring a crushing victory over Labour in the Glasgow East by-election. Their administration is earning plaudits, even from Cabinet ministers, but can the First Minister really pull off a break-up of the Union? John Mullin meets... Alex Salmond

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Carla Bruni

Vanity Fair
8 August 2008

'Paris Match'.

Just months after his May 2007 election, French president Nicolas Sarkozy faced growing criticism over his stalled reforms, flashy style, and stormy divorce. The last straw should have been his whirlwind remarriage, to an Italian heiress, ex-model, and singer who had past liaisons with Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, among others, and nude photos all over the Internet. But the lady in question, Carla Bruni, is proving an unexpected asset. At the Élysée Palace, Maureen Orth encounters a pair of romantic predators who appear to have met their matches.

From the September issue

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John Edwards

ABC, Nightline
8 August 2008

The big John Edwards Interview with Bob Woodruff for ABC' Nightline show. Here is a transcript of this explosive televised interview with the former Democrat Senator which has made headlines around the world:

BOB WOODRUFF: Senator, before we start this I just want to make it clear to our audience that you asked me to come here, and asked me to come here to talk about the reports about your personal life. … Let me ask you the question, did you have an affair with Ms. Hunter?

JOHN EDWARDS: In 2006 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006 I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness. And we have kept this within our family since that time. All of my family knows about this and just to be absolutely clear, none of them are responsible for it. I am responsible for it. I alone am responsible for it. And it led to this most recent incident at the Beverly Hilton. I was at the Beverly Hilton. I was there for a very simple reason, because I was trying to keep this mistake that I had made from becoming public.

BOB WOODRUFF: Is this affair completely over? ....

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John Edwards

ABC, Nightline
8 August 2008

The big John Edwards Interview with Bob Woodruff for ABC' Nightline show. Watch the footage of this explosive televised interview with the former Democrat Senator which has made headlines around the world...

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Millie Dobie

Daily Telegraph
7 August 2008

Gordon Brown has taken up Pilates as he limbers up to take on any prospective challengers to his leadership.

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Lord Ashcroft

Sunday Telegraph
6 August 2008

Lord Ashcroft: my 20-year passion for Crimestoppers.

Without knowing it, an anonymous caller made a small piece of history last weekend when he volunteered information about a stabbing in Leicestershire. His became the one millionth “actionable call’’ to Crimestoppers since the charity was launched 20 years ago.

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Bob Marshall-Andrews

The Spectator
6 August 2008

‘I’m not an ambassador for New Labour, I’m an MP’.

In the latest of his occasional series, Martin Rowson talks to Bob Marshall-Andrews, serial Labour rebel who had the entertaining cheek to accuse Miliband of disloyalty

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