Jerusalem fans queue all night as the final curtain comes down
Star Mark Rylance offers hope for those who missed hit play on both side of the Atlantic suggesting a return 'in five or 10 years'There have rarely been scenes like it: people queueing for up to 24...
View ArticleThis Republican abuse of the system is not the American way | Jonathan Freedland
The centuries-old US political system is one to be admired. Yet ironically it's under threat from those who claim to be patriotsThey say one in four of the world's people will have a vote in an...
View ArticleBreast implant advertisements aim to advise and reassure
Government campaign will stress its view that routine removal of PIP breast implants is not necessaryThe government will run a national press advertising campaign this weekend advising women what to do...
View ArticleUnthinkable? Lost music refound
The rediscovery of a previously unknown 1853 Albumblatt for Piano in A minor by Brahms is welcome on many countsSince his death in 1897, the flow of new music by Johannes Brahms has inevitably dried...
View ArticleFrance credit downgrade: what the analysts say
Eurozone crisis deepens as France loses its AAA rating with one of the three big credit rating agenciesCharles St-Arnaud, NomuraThe French downgrade will be more political than economic. Now that...
View ArticleTurkish women get behind the wheel
Women lead drive for gender equality in Diyarbakir, south-east Turkey, where PKK and Turkish troops have previously clashedMost of the stories that emerge from Baglar, the largest and poorest district...
View ArticleBeware the scooter renaissance | John Hooper
To the British, they promise romance amid the recession. But the Italian love affair with this vehicle has often led to tragedyWe long ago learned, if we ever needed to be told, that a vehicle was more...
View ArticleWeatherwatch: The drifted snow to dust the travellers' feet
It is January 1933 in Greenland, the weather is bad, and there is twelve feet of snow outside the expedition hut. "We had to keep tunnels open to the coal and to the stream from which we got our water...
View ArticleRauf Denktash dies, aged 88
Ex-Turkish Cypriot leader, who helped form the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 1983, passed away on FridayFormer Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, a fierce supporter of Turkish Cypriot...
View ArticleTaiwan elections: strait and narrow
The Taiwan elections matter, especially in a region where so many of the players are going through changes of regimeThe Taishang, the million Taiwanese who work in China, are rushing back home to vote...
View ArticleSudoku 2,083 hard
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 09068 338 228. Calls cost 60p per minute at all times. Service...
View ArticleSudoku 275 killer
Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a...
View ArticleLucy Mangan's pick of the week: the story, the stat, the quote, the tweet
Lucy Mangan on the people and stories in the media spotlight in the last seven daysThe storyChoices, choicesWhen Wee Eck won (after a fashion) the Scottish parliamentary election, he promised the...
View ArticleGood to meet you … Vanessa Parkes
A reader who moved from Manchester to London to New Zealand and back talks about her favourite parts of the GuardianI grew up in Manchester, so was always conscious of the Guardian. In the 1970s I got...
View ArticleThe Saturday interview: Neville Lawrence
After Neville Lawrence's son Stephen was murdered in 1993, the family's lives fell to pieces. Now, with two of the killers finally in jail, Neville can smile againThere's something different about...
View ArticleBidisha's thought for the day: First Aid
Vinnie Jones is here to inject the namby-pamby world of first aid with a dose of homophobic machismoI crouched over the man-sized dummy and put my lips to its latex mouth. I was in the Brownies,...
View ArticleThe breast implants scandal is bringing out the worst kinds of private sector...
The financial collapse illustrated how risk gets socialised while profit remains private. So does this appalling episodeIt was pretty repulsive watching Mel Braham, chairman of the Harley Medical...
View ArticleEd Miliband: Keep calm and carry on?
Miliband's toughest month yet has seen his enemies renew the attacks that started the minute he became leader. Can he survive, and even go on to win the next general election?There are few more...
View ArticleFrom the archive, 14 January 1977: Scottish 'snare' scares Tories
Originally published in the Guardian on 14 January 1977After three hours of procedural wrangling, a move to axe Scotland from the devolution Bill was the first issue of the measure which was debated in...
View ArticleLiberal Democrats voice fears on housing benefit reform
Deputy leader Simon Hughes to speak out on welfare caps, warning that changes will hit hard in inner citiesSimon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat deputy leader, is to intensify the revolt over the...
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