BMJ  2007;335:174 (28 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.39287.432118.DB

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Health workers leave Libyan jail: Six health workers who won a last minute reprieve from a firing squad in Libya arrived in Bulgaria on Tuesday. The five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian intern have spent the past eight years in Libyan prisons after being convicted of infecting more than 400 children with HIV. Their death sentences were commuted after the children's families were paid $1m (£490 000; 725 000) each in compensation (BMJ 2007;335:115, 21 Jul doi: 10.1136/bmj.39280.560995.D).

UK to review cannabis classification: A consultation document about the UK strategy for drugs has been published by the Home Office this week. As part of the consultation the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs will be asked to review whether the danger of cannabis is increasing because of new, more potent varieties. It will also consider whether to reclassify cannabis from its current class, C, to class B.

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