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• Former Tamil Tigers commander leaves UK after war crimes inquiry dropped

  Jul 4 2008:

  Colonel Karuna Amman, who was jailed for entering Britain on a fraudulent passport and investigated for alleged war crimes, returns to Sri Lanka

• Obituary: Charles Wheeler

  Jul 4 2008:

  For more than four decades Charles Wheeler, who has died aged 85, reported for BBC radio and television from most of the world's trouble spots. By Harold Jackson

• Mugabe defiant on return to Zimbabwe

  Jul 4 2008:

  President Robert Mugabe was greeted by cheering crowds today as he returned to Zimbabwe after defending his controversial re-election to African leaders

• Veteran BBC foreign correspondent Charles Wheeler, 85, dies

  Jul 4 2008:

  Sir Charles Wheeler, one of the BBC's longest standing foreign correspondents and the father-in-law of London mayor Boris Johnson, has died at the age of 85. By Leigh Holmwood

• The row over Macedonia's name rumbles on

  Jul 4 2008:

  Helena Smith: But Greeks are hoping that a boost for the balkan nationalists in Macedonia could unexpectedly pave the way for compromise

• How to solve the question of female bishops

  Jul 4 2008:

  Judith Maltby: When 'pain' enters into arguments about the future of Anglicanism, we're faced with an impossible conundrum

• Xan Brooks on the complete version of silent film classic, Metropolis

  Audio (3min 32sec), Jul 4 2008: The Guardian film critic, Xan Brooks, on how the newly found, complete version of the classic film, Metropolis by Fritz Lang, makes sense of the plot

• Kate Connolly on the waxwork exhibition featuring Adolf Hitler

  Audio (5min 48sec), Jul 4 2008: Berlin correspondent Kate Connolly previews the waxwork Adolf Hitler unveiled at Madame Tussauds

• Robert Booth on Zaha Hadid's costly swimming centre for 2012 Olympics

  Audio (4min 15sec), Jul 4 2008: Robert Booth on the Guardian investigation that revealed how officials were aware of costly design problems in Zaha Hadid's plans for the London Olympics swimming centre

• Back in the bunker

  Gallery (5 pictures), Jul 4 2008: The Berlin branch of Madame Tussauds opens tomorrow, with 75 waxwork figures of famous people. But it is the representation of Adolf Hitler that is sure to attract most attention

• Guardian Daily podcast: Investigation into Ray Lewis; plus Ingrid Betancourt freed in Colombia

  Audio (30min 12sec), Jul 4 2008: In our daily audio show, Jon Dennis and guests discuss the allegations against Ray Lewis; Colombia’s Farc rebels and the freeing of Ingrid Betancourt; and Metropolis’s missing scenes

• Disillusioned Berliner Zeitung staff advertise for new proprietor

  Jul 4 2008:

  Staff at the Berliner Zeitung newspaper in Germany are so unhappy with their owner, David Montgomery, that they have advertised for a new proprietor in a rival German magazine. By Helen Pidd

• Economy: Record inflation prompts eurozone rate increase

  Jul 4 2008:

  The European Central Bank raises interest rates for the first time in 13 months as inflation hits 4%

• Bound, tortured, stabbed and burned: 'horrific' mystery of bedsit murders

  Jul 4 2008:

  Two French biochemistry students stabbed more than 200 times in an apparently motiveless attack

• Doctors call for heart checks on athletes

  Jul 4 2008:

  Study suggests regular heart check-ups could reduce number of athletes who die from sudden heart failure

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