It is a different story among black Africans, where children born to two black parents are three and a half times as numerous as children with one white parent.

ECONOMIST: Immigration

What is surprising, and encouraging for supporters of racial harmony, is that nearly half of Britons claim at least one close non-white friend.

ECONOMIST: Race relations

Training black officers is a big part of the job: By 2000 the plan is to turn the predominately white-led police force into one in which half of the managers are black.

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And one of the facts about British-born Caribbean men that most distresses their womenfolk is that, of those in employment, more than half choose not a black partner but a white one.

ECONOMIST: Black Britain

An hour and a half later the group reaches "the dome, " a 60-foot-high semicylinder of rock, one half of the face a deep blue manganese, the other bridal-white calcite.

FORBES: Cave Woman

Training black officers is a big part of the job, since by 2000 the plan is to turn the predominately white-led police force into one in which at least half of the managers are black.

FORBES: Beer baron turns top cop

Just one in ten black pupils qualifies for university, compared with more than half of their white peers.

ECONOMIST: South Africa's education system

Spinner Graeme White was struck for four sixes in one over as the England batsman went to his half century from 28 deliveries and two more followed off Jason Brown.

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But White and Wessels, who brought up his half-century by plundering three boundaries in one Harris over, launched a counter-attack, adding 50 in just 39 balls.

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