Vladimir Gusinsky, a media tycoon on bail in Spain and under heavy fire from the Kremlin, has given money to improve conditions at one of Moscow's worst prisons, where he spent a few uncomfortable nights last summer.

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You wouldn't think Britain was one of the Western world's worst economic laggards by looking at the latest sales figures from Tesco , the supermarket giant that gets about half its revenues from the United Kingdom.

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He said at the trial the company's failure to abide by safety rules was "one of the worst examples of sustained industrial negligence in a high risk industry I have ever seen".

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Those sentiments were echoed by Neville's manager, David Moyes, who was particularly pleased with the manner in which his team bounced back from last weekend's 2-0 defeat at Bolton, a performance he described as one of the worst of his nine-year Goodison Park tenure.

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It is an attempt to tackle one of Pakistan's worst problems: the huge number of children who receive no education at all.

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