Various Metro titles across Europe - including the edition distributed free in London - are to carry special four-page inserts on 20 November that will give a platform to migrants.

The advertorial pull-out will carry articles and pictures about the lives of migrants, portraying them in a more positive light than is, sadly, usually the case.

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Tighter EU rules on biofuel production are failing to protect the land rights of Indonesia's indigenous communities

During a heated debate at the European Development Days, I learned that increased greenhouse gas emissions and diminishing food security are the main concerns in Europe about biofuels. From my perspective, however, violations of people's fundamental rights deserve equal attention. Last month, when the European commission (EC) announced stricter rules on biofuels, I was in Brussels to discuss these rules with representatives of the commission, the ethanol industry and NGOs.

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Billionaire philanthropist Mo Ibrahim explains why Africa faces particular challenges to provide school places, training and jobs for its young people

Liz Ford

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Dramatic shift in balance of economic power over next five decades analysed in new OECD model

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China's economy will be biggest in world by end of 2016, says leading international thinktank

• Developing world to eclipse west as balance of power shifts

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Scale of debt in banking sector and bloated state firms lays bare pernicious influences of cronyism in Asian tiger economy

Vietnam's stuttering economy, once a darling of the World Bank and a rising tiger of south-east Asia, received a further blow this week with the bailout of the crisis-struck state-owned Sacombank.

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Being a film star not high up on the list of 1950's children's career ambitions

Only 2 per cent of the boys and 5 per cent of the girls answered "Film actor" or "Film actress" to the question in a Government "quiz" on cinema-going "What would you most like to be when you grow up?" When they were asked which of sixteen film stars they would like to be nearly one in seven said "None." The children's ambitions were, on the whole, very practical, says the report, issued to-day, of a social survey made by the Central Office of Information in 1948 for the Departmental Committee on Children and the Cinema.

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Andrew Mitchell is being questioned after giving £8m to a state with rebel links. UK silence on human rights abuses must end

The international development select committee (IDC) is today questioning Andrew Mitchell on his controversial decision to disburse £8m of UK budget support to the government of Rwanda, in his final hours as international development secretary and just six weeks after deciding to withhold this support, following allegations of Rwandan military backing for the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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International fair in Lagos allows people to showcase ideas such as urine lamps, cassava processors and truck DJs

In a bustling African megacity known for its residents' resourcefulness, an international fair has turned the spotlight on innovators tackling everyday problems with limited resources.

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As president you have helped those who cause climate change more than those affected most by it. Helping the world's poorest adapt is now a matter of urgency, and it can be your great legacy

Dear President Obama,

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