Georgia May Jagger launches the Marc Jacobs designed “Fight like a Girl” bag in aid of Fashion Targets Breast Cancer at Brown Thomas.  Photograph: Alan Betson

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Amanda Knox was guilty of nothing more than extreme naivety. Photograph: Reuters

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People gather with candles during a vigil for eight-year-old Martin Richard, from Dorchester, who was killed by an explosion near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Photograph: Jared Wickerham/Getty Images

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For your children to get a place in school you might be asked to recite Humpty Dumpty in Cyrillic while juggling Rubik's cubes.

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