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Friday, 13 May 2011
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News
News RSS Feed - click to grab the feedUK
- Government rejects ban on wild animals in circuses
- Network Rail apology for Potters Bar deaths
- Jobcentre posts at risk, says union
- Video: Potters Bar crash 'could happen again'
- Judge imposes Twitter ban
- Space shortage delayed UKBA arrests
- Britain declines to 'share the burden' of refugees
- Unemployment figures announced next week
- Met urged to investigate David Laws' expenses
- MI6 made secret plan for anti-Saddam coup in December 2001
- Taxpayers may have to pay new levy to meet future cost of care homes
- 'Door still open' to David Laws despite expenses verdict
- Alastair Campbell 'misled' Chilcot over dossier
- Lib Dem rebels threaten David Cameron-Nick Clegg unity rift
- Lecturer jailed for student affair
- Teacher jailed for lesbian affair
- Girl 'in tears after abduction bid'
- Video: Two arrested over burnt body
- Video: 'Opportunities missed' in Tia Rigg case
- Bradford bonfire body 'no link' to dead men
- Three questioned over schoolboy murder
- Met police to help search for Madeleine McCann
- Police accused of cover-up over death at Pete Doherty party
- Third mutilated corpse find in 24 hours leaves Bradford in shock
- After attack, a bullet in the post for Celtic boss Neil Lennon
- Women officers in a tight spot
- Friday 13th and other superstitions
- Stoke-on-Trent: A potted history
World
- Sir Nicholas Young: Haiti: a new chapter
- John Elliott from Riding the Elephant blog: Communist defeat and land disputes dominate Indian politics
- British woman murdered in Tenerife
- Spain mourns earthquake victims
- German and French economies grow
- Video: Fire and violence in Athens
- A survivor's view: 'We had heard what went on there, but we refused to believe it'
- Justice after 66 years: Nazi guard John Demjanjuk is convicted for slaughter of Jews
- Residents fear further Spanish quakes
- German politician Silvana Koch-Mehrin in plagiarism row
- Haiti: a new chapter
- Two arrested in alleged plot to attack New York synagogue
- The worst is yet to come from the mighty Mississippi
- Bolivian boy, 10, survives icy hunt for mother
- Tanks deployed to combat Syria protests
- Qatar quits Yemen mediation attempt
- Fears grow as Syrian tanks move in
- Saudi troops to stay in Bahrain
- Communist defeat and land disputes dominate Indian politics
- Baby animals found in man's luggage
- Pakistan bomb attack 'revenge for Bin Laden'
- US missiles kill three people in Pakistan
- Sacked cashier in China bank bomb attack
- Thailand split as Thaksin's sister joins poll
- Gandhi arrested in protest over road
- Partial meltdown hits Fukushima nuclear plant
- Gaddafi 'probably wounded'
- Mubarak's wife detained in Egypt
- Protests as Uganda President is sworn in
- The outback's new gold rush
- 2010 'a watershed year' for toppling governments
- How Bin Laden never gave up his dream of another September 11
Business
- Lloyd's of London disasters claims set to hit £2.4bn
- Savers rush for new index-linked certificates
- Warm weather catches out Supergroup
- Dixons Retail touts sales of iPad 2 and big stores
- Business Diary: Singing the same tune at last
- HMV's talks with Mamut over Waterstone's on hold
- Takeda in talks to buy rival Nycomed
- Saab's rescue deal with China's Hawtai collapses
- Outputs are up, but still fail to match expectations
- Digital music sales hit £1bn mark in the UK
- BA and union agree end to long-running dispute
- Executive pay triggers revolt at William Hill
- BT soars 71 per cent on broadband gains
- Glencore listing on track as pricing 'froth' subsides
- Eurozone crisis is still dangerous, IMF warns
- Hamish McRae: A year on, has the Coalition made good progress on growth and the deficit?
- David Prosser: Unions and employers both have much to lose
- David Prosser: Savers welcome back an old friend
- David Prosser: Transparency in the City may not be as clear cut as it seems
- Market Report: Commodities sell-off leaves Fresnillo weaker
- Investment Column: 3i proves it's better to be safe than sorry
People
- Katie Price to rival Lord Sugar
- Caught & Social: Penelope and Pepe
- Having baby saved my life, says Mel C
- The Business On... Shalini Khemka, CEO, London Entrepreneurial Exchange
- Bert Trautmann: 'Stoke have better team spirit. I'd make them favourites'
- Changing man: The strange education of Ali Niaz
- Glenn Whelan: Irishman seeks final vindication against club that spurned him
- James Corden: The History Boy who grew up
- Diary: Latest role a drag for West
Science
Media
- Contempt of court case raises difficult issues
- Sienna Miller should be forced to accept damages offer, says News International
- Prescott evidence triggered new Met inquiry, court told
- Social networking sites consider UK court ruling
Education
Obituaries
- Craig Thomas: Author of Cold War spy stories and inventor of the techno-thriller
- Paul Marcus: TV producer and director who was a driving force behind Prime Suspect
- David Cairns: Roman Catholic priest who became MP for Inverclyde and a rising star of the Labour Party
Opinion
Opinion RSS Feed - click to grab the feedLeading Articles
- Leading article: The Chancellor has elected to pick a fight
- Leading article: Unusual punishment
- Leading article: An important trial, but a questionable verdict
Commentators
- John Rentoul: How to Ban Things and Alienate People
- Heather Conley: The risks are high in such a harsh environment
- Victoria Summerley: Discover paradise in a Persian walled garden
- Geoffrey Robertson: Assad should face international justice
- Terence Blacker: Comedy's a serious thing, Woody
- The Sketch: A modern 'crapopolis' is the chosen setting for reaffirming vows
- Mary Dejevsky: Only a 'big bang' will excise corruption in council housing
- Adrian Hamilton: The doubters have their day
Columnists
- Tom Sutcliffe: Let's sow the seed of protest artfully
- Brian Viner: It is thuggery, not sectarianism
- John Walsh: Beware letters from fictional civil servants
Letters
Environment
Environment RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- What is fracking? Journalism students explain with catchy song
- Green agenda: eco-vehicles in China and horticulture in UK
- Pictures of first international solar-powered flight on the net
Climate Change
Green Living
Nature
Sport
Sport RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- Majid Mohamed: Eredivisie ready for title ‘play-off’
- Jane Bainbridge: In it for the long run: one month on
- Michael Kim: The keys to the NHL Conference Finals
- Giles Lucas: Championship play-off preview: Emotions running high as Cardiff and Reading collide
- Gareth Purnell: iBet: Back Huddersfield in League One
Cricket
Football
- England crisis as Green set to quit
- The greatest FA Cup finals
- Qatar World Cup 'fixer' worked for Fifa
- Simon Rice: Rihanna, Robbie Savage and Little Pea: Strange football related things this week
- James Lawton: Bringing in Xavi would show City what it really means to be a big club
- FA turns away from backing Blatter election
- Avram Grant defiant over West Ham survival chances
- Tottenham season better than last insists Harry Redknapp
- Carlo Ancelotti in dark over Chelsea future ahead of 'last' home game
- Arsene Wenger denies Paul Merson medical treatment claims
- Newcastle leave Cheick Tiote out fearing suspension
- Alex Ferguson keen to rest Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez
- Kenny Dalglish keen to tame 'wild' expectations
- Manchester United see commercial revenue increase
- Liverpool director Damien Comolli compares Kenny Dalglish to Arsene Wenger
- Patrick Vieira uncertain over Manchester City future
- Martin Keown expects changes at Arsenal
- Jose Reina happy to remain to Liverpool
- Alex Ferguson charged by FA over Howard Webb comments
- Bolton's Mark Davies sidelined after operation
- Injury woes plague Sunderland
- Alex Ferguson set to rest Edwin Van der Sar
- Andy Carroll could return for Liverpool
- 'We need a bigger squad', says Terry
- Liverpool reward Dalglish's renaissance with three-year deal
- I may leave if Hammers go down, admits Parker before getting award
- Micky Adams takes charge at Port Vale
- Forest foiled by 10-man Swansea after Taylor's lunge
- Jones determined to silence doubters and lead Cardiff to the promised land
- Barca midfielder Busquets faces five-match ban
- Hearts fan who attacked Neil Lennon handed life ban
- Cup final forced to share with League games in 2012 too
- ESPN turn back the clock for 12-hour coverage
- City's joker in the pack Balotelli looks ready to have last laugh
- Mancini happy to keep Tevez in dark over Wembley starting role
Golf
Motor Racing
Racing
More Sports
Rugby
- Steele forced to make U-turn on director role
- Northampton motivated by last season's semi-final defeat
Tennis
- Rafael Nadal retains World No 1 status
- Andy Murray reaches semi-finals in Rome
- Nadal laid low by virus but is still too hot for lacklustre Lopez
More Sports
- The keys to the NHL Conference Finals
- Basketball: Jackson, NBA legend, Zen Master and acid dropper, bows out
Life & Style
Life & Style RSS Feed - click to grab the feedOffers
- Win Tickets to see Strictly Gershwin at the Royal Albert Hall
- See The Flying Karamazov Brothers for just £22.50
- Home agenda: Lighting design at LFI, garden trends at the Chelsea Flower Show
- Sony battles to regain trust after data breach
Fashion
- What's too old to wear a bikini or mini skirt?
- Beauty agenda: Makeup Show kicks off in New York
- Fashion agenda: Kate Moss exhibitions in Paris and New York
- Princess Beatrice puts wacky hat on eBay
- After China and Japan, fashion looks to India for inspiration
- Beauty foods for shiny hair and clear skin expected to grow around world
Food & Drink
- Food agenda: World's best wines announced
- Would you like that on wholemeal, white... or lettuce?
- The ten best frying pans
Health & Families
- MRSA found lurking in supermarket meat
- Ask for extra bamboo in chow mein for added health benefits
- Good buzz: coffee may reduce breast cancer risk
- Health and fitness agenda: Geneva hosts World Health Assembly
- Many in US seek health information online: study
- IVF policy change leads to fewer multiple pregnancies
- A user's guide to age: We can't truly become 'amortal'
House & Home
- Design agenda: what not to miss at the ICFF
- 'We bring vintage lights to life': Stanley Wilson's hip designs are flying off the shelves
- The Secret History Of: The bubble chair
- Online House-Hunter: Bookmark essentials
- Private viewing: Our tour of the pick of the property market
- The property sweet spots that won't bust your budget
- Greener pastures: Is it time to snap up an Irish holiday-home bargain?
- Repossessions rise as squeeze hits households
History
Gadgets & Tech
- 16.7 million Americans check-in with their mobile device
- 10 facts about worms, drawing that never ends: top StumbleUpon sites
- Huge leak on 'Modern Warfare 3' details
- Twitter index: Twitter users spoil 'Vampire Diaries' finale for people living outside of the US
- Top tech headlines: Microsoft buys Skype, Chromebooks, Facebook smear campaign against Google
- Facebook increases user security with mobile phone codes, community block lists
- Tech agenda: technology startups battle for recognition at TechCrunch Disrupt
- What is the Chrome Notebook? Google explains and gets views: viral video spotlight
- Cyber scams rife at social networks: Microsoft
- 'Dark Souls' offers Limited Edition for standard price
- Facebook caught out as smear campaign against Google exposed
- Curse of overtweet: stars 'lose mystique' by sharing too much
Motoring
- Leased batteries offer better electric vehicle value, says research
- Number of European electric vehicle chargers set to explode, says research
- Auto agenda: Barcelona Motor Show
- Volkswagen becomes latest automaker to enter car-sharing business
- Shenzhen pulls ahead again in the race for electrification
- Road test: Seat Leon 1.2 TSI Copa
- Honda CBR600F First Ride & Press Day
Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment RSS Feed - click to grab the feedArt
- Arts agenda: International Museum Day
- Ai Weiwei, Somerset House/Lisson Gallery, London
- Great Works: The Art Critic 1919-20 (31.8x25.4 cms), Raoul Hausmann
Music
- Israeli transsexual out of Eurovision
- Most blogged artists: soul-funk revivalist Mayer Hawthorne drops free EP
- Music agenda: albums from Lady Gaga, Eddie Vedder
- YouTube starts online hits music video chart
- Taiwan pop star Jay Chou leads music awards list
- Germany's Lena seeks to defend Eurovision title
- My Fantasy Band: Nathaniel Rateliff
- Caught in the Net: In a New York state of mind
- The Barometer: Beastie Boys; Jamie Woon; Sun Glitters; Christian Aids; James Mathe; Other Lives; My Panda Shall Fly; Treetop Flyers; Box Codax
- Cultural Life: Devlin, musician
- Sir Patrick Moore lends his voice to cosmic-folk single 'Glittering Sky'
- Album: Mona, Mona (Zion Noiz/Island)
- Album: Kate Bush, Director's Cut (Fish People)
- Album: Moby, Destroyed (Little Idiot)
- Album: Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi, Rome (Parlophone)
- Album: Friendly Fires, Pala (XL)
- Album: John Martyn, Heaven and Earth (Hole-in-the-Rain)
- Album: Eliza Carthy, Neptune (Hem Hem)
- Wild Beasts, Wilton's Music Hall, London
- The Wall, 02 Arena, London
Classical
- London Symphony Orchestra/ Gergiev, Barbican Hall
- Album: Gido Kremer, Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Newton Classics)
- Album: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Heitor Villa-Losbos, Brasilia, Sinfonia De Alvorada; Floresta Do Amazonas (él)
- Album: Meredith Monk, Songs of Ascension (ECM New Series)
Films
- I'm not the heroine in 'Heroine', Indian star says
- Will Ferrell chosen for Kennedy Center honor
- Record female line-up takes aim at Cannes gold
- Swank joins McConaughey in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’
- Women grab Cannes spotlight with disturbing tales
- Cannes Diary: Lady Gaga, Mona Lisa and Salvador Dali – in 3D. Ready for the surreal deal?
- Pumeza Matshikiza - From the townships to the Royal Opera
- Rock'n'roll memories? They wrote the book
- Johnny Depp: Captain Jack in no mood to quit the life of a buccaneer
- Quentin Tarantino - The good, the bad and the movie geek
- Odd Future - Introducing the unhinged heroes of hip-hop...
- Set the Piano Stool on Fire reveals the relationship between a master and his prodigy
- DVD: The Next Three Days (12)
- Taxi Driver (18)
- DVD: Blue Valentine (15)
- DVD: Black Swan (15)
- DVD: Biutiful (15)
- Red Hill (15)
- The Way (12A)
- Attack The Block (15)
- Amreeka (NC)
- Take Me Home Tonight (15)
- A Screaming Man (PG)
- First Night: We Need To Talk About Kevin, Cannes Film Festival
TV & Radio
- Kutcher to replace Sheen in Two and a Half Men
- Last Night's TV: A Very Dangerous Doctor/Channel 4
The Shadow Line/BBC2
Theatre & Dance
Comedy
Books
- The Cosmos in close up
- The Diary: The Godfather; How The Light Gets In; dream think speak; Venice Biennale; Samantha Womack
- Is feminism relevant to 21st-century fiction?
- One Minute With: Stella Tillyard, historian and novelist
- Boyd Tonkin: Crime pays – but should not brag
- Blood & Mistletoe, By Ronald Hutton
- Full Circle, By Ferdinand Mount
- Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties, By Robert Irwin
- The Forgotten Waltz, By Anne Enright
- The Free World, By David Bezmozgis
- Enlightening: Letters 1946-60, By Isaiah Berlin
- All Men Are Liars, By Alberto Manguel
- Book Of A Lifetime: In Cold Blood, By Truman Capote
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, By Manning Marable
- Mercy, By Jussi Adler-Olsen, trans. Lisa Hartford
- The Origins of Political Order: From Pre-Human Times to the French Revolution, By Francis Fukuyama
- The Lore of Scotland, By Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill
- Story of a Secret State, By Jan Karski
- Orson Welles, By Paolo Mereghetti
Travel
Travel RSS Feed - click to grab the feedNews & Advice
- Solar-powered plane takes off
- Travel agenda: New super-resort set to open in Macau
- Europe signals tighter border-free travel checks
- US visa system drives away tourists
- Taiwan and China set to add more flights
- Index of air quality in the world's major cities: May 13
- 'Space port' tours to open in New Mexico, US
- Popularity of beach vacations falling among Germans, research shows
Hotels
Money
Money RSS Feed - click to grab the feedMortgages
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