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India plans to drive railways out of the Raj era into high-speed future
Overhaul could spell end to elephants on line, passengers on roof and 45mph average speed – but huge investment requiredThe crowds, the chaos and the cows on the platform may soon be history. India's...
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London's Shard: a 'tower of power and riches' looking down on poverty
Renzo Piano's skyscraper, which will be Europe's tallest building, may provide a shot in the arm for London – or be merely a symbol of Qatari financial muscleSlicing through the air above the dank and...
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Northern England's art scene thrives as developers withdraw
Cheap studio space helps to foster growth in Sheffield and create a buzz throughout the regionIn a building that has variously been a pub, a factory and offices in Sheffield's Devonshire quarter, 15...
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Oxford Street stabbing prompts south London police raids
Met police arrest 13 after raids on addresses following Boxing Day killing of Seydou DiarrassoubaThirteen people have been arrested across south London amid "rising tensions" after the Oxford Street...
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Puppet Lady Godiva takes first steps in Coventry
One of the major public arts commissions to celebrate the London Olympics is being built on a Midlands industrial estateIn Coventry Godiva has woken, taken her first cautious steps, blinked her...
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Face to faith: Europe's crisis of faith | Pope Benedict XVI
In hard times, Europe could learn much from Africa's joyful passion for faithAs this year draws to a close, Europe is undergoing an economic and financial crisis, which is ultimately based on the...
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2011 was second warmest year on record – but December was average
This year's April and spring broke records but this month has not been – as many have thought – unseasonably mildThis year has been confirmed as the UK's second warmest on record, continuing a trend of...
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Surgeon who missed Ruth Picardie breast cancer struck off by GMC
Puvaneswary Markandoo judged a danger to NHS patients after years of botched operations Fourteen years after the death of the Observer journalist Ruth Picardie from breast cancer, the surgeon who...
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Summits at the summit: the Shard could host talks for world leaders
Europe's tallest building could include exclusive space on 78th floor for top-level meetings, says building's developerIt would be the summit at the summit. The top floor of the Shard, Europe's tallest...
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Why Britain should think about doing things the German way | Jonathan Glancey
The British economy is built on flimsy and unreliable foundations. We should be making more thingsFour years ago I attended the opening ceremony of BMW Welt in Munich. This sensational vortex of a...
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As the cuts bleed harder, the cruel Tory truth will emerge | Polly Toynbee
In my political lifetime, I have never seen a more callous or inept crew in charge. This is no time for Labour to lose its nerveThe year ends with the country in a worse state than the government's...
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Global development: reimagining the goals
We are entering a new age of inequality, especially within countries and especially in the emerging powersNow is the time for making and not breaking new year's resolutions – and resolutions don't come...
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Unthinkable? A Luddite reappraisal
Economists rubbish the notion that technology leads to unemployment as 'the Luddite fallacy' but this interpretation is itself fallaciousA certain Ned Ludd, who smashed a weaving machine in a fit of...
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Letters: How Labour can break out of the Tory trap
I despair at yet another article written from the exclusive perspective of the Westminster village, designed to appeal to that mythical middle England of swing voters who decide elections (Miliband...
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Simon Hoggart's week: Reagan's law of keeping your chin up
The political currency of hope and how Václav Havel still wanted to conjugate verbs in the midst of a diplomatic crisis✒"Optimism can defeat despair," said Ed Miliband in his new year message. This is...
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Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire
A narrow gully and 2,000 years separate the treasure hoards of Sandy Warren. An unknown Roman came here with a fixed idea about where to bury his or her pot of gold, and climbed the hill opposite....
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Letters: Great disappointment at Dickens rewritten as Dostoevsky
BBC1's Christmas bicentennial version of Great Expectations (Last night's TV, G2, 28 December), despite several serious rivals, is the worst attempt to translate Dickens from page to screen. In the end...
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Letters: Brotherly advice for Ed Miliband
Your Christmas editorial (26 December) wonders why David Cameron is still "in command" and why Ed Miliband "is not currently seen as equal to this grave hour". First: successful political leadership...
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Patients with unhealthy lifestyles must be warned, say experts
Smoking, drinking, diet and lack of exercise needs to be addressed, NHS Future Forum warnsThe NHS Future Forum's suggestion that health professionals should routinely talk to patients about their...
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Letters: Victor Victoria
FUK (Letters, 24 December) would have been the name of the sixth Shell oilfield in the North Sea had not a bright spark noticed that AUK (the name given to the first field) was also the name of a sea...
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