Eurozone in new crisis as ratings agency downgrades nine countries
Standard & Poor's strips France of its AAA credit rating, rekindling fears in the markets over future of single currencyEurope has been plunged into a fresh crisis after France was stripped of its...
View ArticleSomali pirates struggle against international crackdown
Pirates managed only four hijacks off the Somali coast but were prepared to travel much further afieldSomali pirates managed only four successful hijacks off the country's coast last year as a...
View ArticleGreek bankruptcy threat looms as debt restructuring talks break down
Athens warns of dire consequences for Greece and rest of Europe if deal with private-sector creditors is not reached soonThe unexpected breakdown of crucial talks between Greece and its private-sector...
View ArticleEyewitness: Baptism in the Jordan river
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View ArticleLetters: Labour's lack of alternative vision
In his interview with your paper on Saturday, Ed Balls effectively holds up a white flag and admits that Labour has given up any attempt to set out an alternative economic agenda (Beyond the hair...
View ArticleLetters: How migration drives down wage costs
The statistics quoted in Zoe Williams's article (Migration caps aren't about protecting British workers, 12 January) do not reflect my direct experience of employment as a truck driver. Haulage...
View ArticleCountry diary: Loweswater, Lake District: Beauty and the beast
Loweswater, Lake District: The incessant gales and heaving downpours have revealed the savage and sometimes cruel beauty of the LakesThe ethereal beauty of the Lakes during the heaving downpours and...
View ArticleAlexei Navalny: Russia's new rebel who has Vladimir Putin in his sights
The lawyer-turned-crusading democrat has a touch of the PM's populism that makes even some of his own supporters uneasyOn a freezing winter day last month, a tall man with blond hair walked up to a...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications
Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow | University of St Andrews | intelligence and security committee | Princess Saralinda• Under a label reading Boris on the brink: Mayor treads Olympic board, a front-page...
View ArticleHow I fell in love with darts | Joe Moran
Darts may be silly and its rituals may be unfathomable, but I seem to have fallen in love with itThis last week, I have been staying up late, watching unathletic-looking men hurling feathered pieces of...
View ArticleLetters: Renaissance man's Titanic ambitions
Renaissance man Cameron is now telling the film industry how to do its job (Editorial, 12 January). If he had been in charge at the time, I wonder which horse he would have backed in a choice between,...
View ArticleIn praise of … Haworth church | editorial
All of us would be the poorer if this unique building associated with the Brontës was allowed to collapseLead thieves, time and too much wuthering have been unkind to the parish church of St Michael...
View ArticleScottish referendum: let the Electoral Commission set the rules | editorial
Questions of fairness and legality cannot be resolved by politicians who are competing to do one another downIt is autumn 2014. The polls have closed in the referendum that has been called by the...
View ArticleBond markets: when it pays to borrow | editorial
With the UK poised to go back into recession, the government ought to be borrowing more to investA funny thing happened in the bond markets last week, although it mostly stayed under the public radar....
View ArticleDon't blame the ratings agencies for the eurozone turmoil | Ha-Joon Chang
Europe and the eurozone are strangling themselves with a toxic mixture of austerity and a structurally flawed financial systemEven the most rational Europeans must now feel that Friday the 13th is an...
View ArticlePakistan Taliban leader believed dead – intelligence officials
Pakistani officials say they intercepted radio chatter detailing death of Hakimullah Mehsud in US drone strikeThe leader of the Pakistani Taliban is believed to have been killed by a US drone strike,...
View ArticleGive Queen a new royal yacht for diamond jubilee, says Michael Gove
Exclusive: Education secretary proposes taxpayers fund gift – likely to cost at least £60m – to mark 'momentous occasion'Michael Gove has brushed aside Britain's economic problems to propose the public...
View ArticlePrivate cosmetic clinics employing 'unqualified' surgeons
Experts voice concerns about level of training of private sector surgeons working on breast implants and nose jobsPrivate cosmetic clinics are employing surgeons to carry out breast implants, nose jobs...
View ArticleCosmetic industry offers promise of perfection for the young
Despite concerns about safety, teenagers have shown a growing willingness to embrace cosmetic surgeryThe buzzer sounds, the heavy door gives and you walk into a warm, light, carpeted environment with...
View ArticlePhobos-Grunt Mars probe falls into Pacific Ocean
Russian space agency had previously said that the stricken planetary rocket was most likely to fall into the AtlanticDebris from a failed Russian spacecraft fell into the Pacific Ocean far off Chile on...
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