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diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
index b8e73fba02..c1e7414a79 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ recipe_modules = ['recipe_' + r for r in (
            'esquire', 'livemint', 'thedgesingapore', 'darknet', 'rga',
            'intelligencer', 'theoldfoodie', 'hln_be', 'honvedelem',
            'the_new_republic', 'philly', 'salon', 'tweakers', 'smashing',
-           'thestar', 'business_standard',
+           'thestar', 'business_standard', 'lemonde_dip',
           )]
 
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_lemonde_dip.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_lemonde_dip.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4a114a09ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_lemonde_dip.py
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env  python
+
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2008-2009, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
+'''
+mondediplo.com
+'''
+
+import re, urllib
+from calibre import strftime
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import Tag
+
+class LeMondeDiplomatiqueEn(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title                  = 'Le Monde diplomatique - English edition'
+    __author__             = 'Darko Miletic'
+    description            = 'Real journalism making sense of the world around us'
+    publisher              = 'Le Monde diplomatique'
+    category               = 'news, politics, world'
+    no_stylesheets         = True
+    oldest_article         = 31
+    delay                  = 1
+    encoding               = 'utf-8'
+    needs_subscription     = True
+    PREFIX                 = 'http://mondediplo.com/'
+    LOGIN                  = PREFIX + '2009/09/02congo'
+    INDEX                  = PREFIX + strftime('%Y/%m/')
+    use_embedded_content   = False
+    language               = 'en'
+
+    conversion_options = {
+                          'comment'          : description
+                        , 'tags'             : category
+                        , 'publisher'        : publisher
+                        , 'language'         : language
+                        }
+
+    def get_browser(self):
+        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
+        br.open(self.LOGIN)
+        if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
+            data = urllib.urlencode({ 'login':self.username
+                                     ,'pass':self.password
+                                     ,'enter':'enter'
+                                   })
+            br.open(self.LOGIN,data)
+        return br
+
+    keep_only_tags    =[dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'contenu'})]
+    remove_tags = [dict(name=['object','link','script','iframe','base'])]
+    
+    def parse_index(self):
+        articles = []
+        soup = self.index_to_soup(self.INDEX)
+        cnt = soup.find('div',attrs={'class':'som_num'})
+        for item in cnt.findAll('li'):
+            description = ''
+            feed_link = item.find('a')
+            desc = item.find('div',attrs={'class':'chapo'})
+            if desc:
+               description = desc.string
+            if feed_link and feed_link.has_key('href'):
+                url   = self.PREFIX + feed_link['href'].partition('/../')[2]
+                title = self.tag_to_string(feed_link)
+                date  = strftime(self.timefmt)
+                articles.append({
+                                  'title'      :title
+                                 ,'date'       :date
+                                 ,'url'        :url
+                                 ,'description':description
+                                })
+        return [(soup.head.title.string, articles)]
+