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• Nebraska restricts safe-haven law
  Nebraska adds a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that has led to the abandonment of nearly three dozen children.
  
  
• Profile: Michael Mukasey
  President George W Bush's choice for attorney general, ex-judge Michael Mukasey, is an independent conservative, analysts say.
  
  
• Executive 'may share funds blame'
  A High Court judge asks if the executive broke the law by not stopping a minister withholding funds from a project.
  
  
• Q&A: Guantanamo detentions
  BBC News explores the issues surrounding the detention of suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
  
  
• Tread carefully with extreme views
  Employers must tread carefully with staff holding extreme beliefs, explains Audrey Williams from Eversheds.
  
  
• Country profile: Zimbabwe
  Key facts, figures and dates
  
  
• Timeline: Pakistan
  A chronology of key events.
  
  
• NHS 'struggling' with work laws
  Surgery teams in many NHS hospitals are not ready for a possible limit on their working week, a survey finds.
  
  
• Leading law firm to make job cuts
  Almost 20 jobs are believed to be at risk in one of Northern Ireland's largest law companies, BBC News understands.
  
  
• Solicitors deny exploiting miners
  Two solicitors from Doncaster have denied exploiting sick miners and their families by dishonestly taking cuts from compensation pay-outs.
  
  
• Prostitute users face clampdown
  Paying for sex with prostitutes who are controlled by pimps or illegally trafficked to the UK is to be outlawed.
  
  
• AM anger at special needs 'block'
  A row breaks out over a proposal Welsh law for more data on children with special education needs.
  
  
• New centre targets slum landlords
  A new law centre in Glasgow tackles private sector slum landlords and agency gangmasters.
  
  
• Rules frustrate anti-piracy efforts
  The BBC's Paul Reynolds looks at measures being taken against Somali pirates and wonders if they are enough.
  
  
• Q&A: UK Prostitution Laws
  What does the law say about prostitution in the UK? And how could the law change?
  
  
• J'lem Diary 17 Nov: Your emails
  BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Franks sends the latest edition of his diary from Jerusalem.
  
  
• Judge pulls out of Franco probes
  A top Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzon, pulls out of investigations into alleged civil war and Franco-era atrocities.
  
  
• On the wrong side of law
  The BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi reports on the cases of police torture in India.
  
  
• Prostitution 'forced into city'
  Prostitution in Aberdeen has spread into the city centre since a tolerance zone was abandoned because of a change in the law.
  
  
• Iraq war 'violated rule of law'
  Advice given to Tony Blair about the legality of the Iraq war was fatally 'flawed', a former senior law lord claims.