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The Independent (London, England)
The Independent is a Monday to Sunday newspaper, owned and published by Independent Print Ltd and headquartered in London, England. It was first published in 1986 in reaction to the conservative views held by the London Times and the London Telegraph. It has a liberal slant. The Independent's audience is London based, with 54 percent of its readership living in London and its surroundings. Other notable qualities of its readership are: the average reader is 43 years old; 59 percent are employed; 62 percent are married; 48 percent have a college degree or higher; and 73 percent own their own homes. Regions covered include: London and South East, South West, Midlands, North and North East, North West, Scotland, and Wales. The Independent is the youngest of Britain's daily newspapers and is notable for challenging London's more established and conservative daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. In 2010, Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, and Johann Hari, a regular columnist in the paper, each received a Comment Award, similar to the U.S. Pultizer Prize. Oliver Wright is Whitehall editor; Oly Duff is home news editor, and Katherine Butler is comment editor.
Articles from October 25, 2007
AbCap Caves in to Rebel Shareholders
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By Danny FortsonThe beleaguered hedge fund Absolute Capital caved in last night to a list of demands from rebel shareholders who were threatening to block restructuring proposals and force some of its funds into liquidation.In a revised restructuring...
A Cheap, Painless Alternative to IVF? Here's the Proof
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Breakthrough in fertility treatment as first British babies are born using new technique Landmark development in fertility treatment offers hope to thousandsBy Jeremy LauranceHealth EditorA landmark in the development of fertility treatment was announced...
'All the Questions Would Be Fine - If I Had the Answers'
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DIARY OF A PRIMARY SCHOOL MUMChocolate is a rare commodity in our household, but it's currently up for grabs. A bar is on offer for each of my four-year- old twins when they've learnt the 45 magnetic words - the ones they're meant to recognise by the...
'Always Lean Backward in an Interview'
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my way Craig Sams on how to become a success at workCraig Sams opened Seed, the UK's first macrobiotic restaurant, in 1967, later expanding into retail, wholesaling and manufacturing under the Whole Earth brand. He is also co-founder of Green & Black's...
America's Lifestyle Is Paid for by Savers in Poorer Nations - but for How Long?
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--Bahrain Even brief visits give you a feeling for changes of mood. And the mood yesterday at a conference for investment advisers, not just from Bahrain but from all over the Gulf, was that they should be looking at as diversified a portfolio as possible,...
A Message of Defiance from the Kurdish Guerrillas Prepared to Take on Turkey
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Turkey used its helicopters and artillery to attack Kurdish guerrillas inside northern Iraq yesterday as the Turkish army massed just north of the border. The helicopter gunships penetrated three miles into Iraqi territory and warplanes targeted mountain...
A Revolution in the Making - Now It's Up to the Scientists
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By Jeremy LauranceHealth EditorOver the past 25 years around two million babies have been born by IVF around the world. Yet the technique has always suffered from a major drawback - it meant dosing the woman with powerful drugs to stimulate her ovaries...
As Well as the Looks and Cash - Ronson Really Rocks
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First Night mark ronson The Roundhouse londonMark Ronson started his career with a pretty irksome job description: Celebrity DJ. A New York socialite from a wealthy, arty family who had nothing better to do as a young man than hang out with famous...
A Threesome That Didn't Need Sexing Up
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Last Night's TV ONE life BBC1 Frankenstein ITV1 MICHAEL JACKSON: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED CHANNEL 4On the face of it, you wouldn't think that Asta Philpot would have much trouble pulling. He's perfectly nice- looking and has the sort of engaging smile that...
At Last, a Voice for the Student Body
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The Government's decision to create a minister for students and to establish a students' forum is a good idea. In an age in which an ever-larger proportion of the population goes to university and is paying for the privilege, it makes sense to give students...
Attacking Revolution Remainsa Fantasy
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chelsea 2 schalke 04 0By Sam WallaceWhat do Chelsea and Gelsenkirchen, the gritty industrial Ruhr hometown of Schalke, have in common? Neither of them are really built with entertainment in mind. Avram Grant's mission is to change all that and usher...
Bank of England Warns of Risks to Property and Stock Markets
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By Sean O'GradyEconomics EditorThe world's financial system remains "vulnerable" to new shocks, with shares, commercial property and parts of the residential housing sector especially exposed, according to the Bank of England.In its Financial Stability...
Beleaguered Airports Owner Hires Blair's Spin Doctor
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By Danny FortsonBAA has hired Tony Blair's former spokesman to guide the beleaguered owner of Heathrow airport through a morass of Gov- ernment inquiries and oper-ational issues that have led it to being branded a "national disgrace".The appointment...
Benitez Defiant as Liverpool Face European Elimination
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--footballBy Ian Herbert at the Inonu StadiumA second successive Champions League defeat - Besiktas taking full toll of the visitors' defensive frailties to win 2-1 in Istanbul last night - leaves Liverpool facing an embarrassing early exit from the...
Blatter and Charlton Join Celebration for World's Oldest Football Club
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Not every non-league football club gets to entertain the Fifa president Sepp Blatter and the England legend Sir Bobby Charlton at its annual dinner. But then Sheffield FC, which started life in 1857 in a borrowed potting-shed, are no ordinary club.The...
Blatter and Finney Join Celebration for World's Oldest Football Club
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Not every non-league football club gets to entertain the Fifa president Sepp Blatter and the England legend Sir Tom Finney at its annual dinner. But then Sheffield FC, which started life in 1857 in a borrowed potting-shed, are no ordinary club.The Unibond...
Bloody but Unbowed
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Stereophonics have never shirked a fight, whether it's with critics, rivals or reporters. David Sinclair finds them still bristling - and not a little bruisedThat Kelly Jones. What a lad. In the last few weeks he's been in the headlines for boozing and...
BP Chief Hayward Moves to Draw Line under Browne Era
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By Stephen Foleyin New YorkTony Hayward, the new chief executive of BP, is making several bold moves to distance the oil company from the Lord Browne era, settling criminal charges over a fatal explosion at its Texas City refinery and cutting hundreds...
Brady and O'Leary in Frame to Take Charge of Irish
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By Michael Walkerin DublinIn what appears to be almost a determined effort to make themselves look ridiculous as both football people and administrators, the Football Association of Ireland have come up with a "process" for appointing the next manager...
Brady and O'Leary in Frame to Take Charge of Irish
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By Michael WalkerIn what appears to be almost a determined effort to make themselves look ridiculous as both football people and administrators, the Football Association of Ireland have come up with a "process" for appointing the next manager of the...
Brown Backs Down on Plan to 'Confiscate' School Funds
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By Colin BrownDeputy Political EditorA U-turn is being prepared by Gordon Brown over a plan to claw back surpluses in school budgets, after the proposal provoked furious disagreement from head teachers and parents.Mr Brown was attacked at the despatch...
Brown Has Made Some Serious Mistakes, but One Thing He Doesn't Lack Is Vision
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One of the persistent myths in British politics is that while Tony Blair was a bold, crusading reformer, Gordon Brown and his allies are "anti-reform". The myth surfaces most days of the week and currently takes the form of questions about whether Mr...
Cardiff Lack Home Comfort as Wolves Climb to Third
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cardiff city 2 wolverhampton 3By James CorriganWolves moved into third place in the Championship last night with a victory that shows they may just have the graft as well as the craft to last the course in this most demanding of divisions. Mick McCarthy's...
Cardiff Lack Home Comfort as Wolves Climb to Third
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cardiff city 2 wolverhampton 3By James CorriganWolves marched into third place in the Championship last night with a gutsy victory that shows they may just have the legs for this most demanding of courses. Mick McCarthy's men courageously fought back...
Cardozo's Persistence Pays off to Send Celtic Packing
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benfica 1 celtic 0By Ronnie EsplinCeltic's dismal away record in the Champions League was extended as they lost to a late Oscar Cardozo goal against Benfica in Lisbon.The Scottish champions matched the home side in the first half but after the break...
Carphone to Launch Service on Vodafone
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By Nic FildesCarphone Warehouse, the UK mobile-phone retailer, has teamed up with Vodafone to launch a new low-cost mobile-phone brand called Talkmobile, ending a perceived feud between the two companies.Vodafone and Carphone Warehouse came to blows...
Chess by Jon Speelman
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The third Barcelona Casino Masters, has been taking place in the Catalan capital and finishes tomorrow.After an inaugural six-player event in 2005, this was extended to 10 players last year, when the Cuban Lenier Dominguez won with no less than 8/9.Dominguez...
'Children Are Key to Saving the Planet'
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An education in the life of Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth passed/failedTony Juniper, 47, has been a campaigner for 20 years. He is the author of Parrots and Spix's Macaw and, out earlier this year, How Many Lightbulbs does it Take to...
Classical
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gabrieli consort and players / mccreesh Barbican london HHHWhat on earth, one wonders, were early performances of Beethoven's unprecedentedly vast and demanding Missa Solemnis actually like? Did the sopranos and tenors sag under the strain of sustaining...
Coach Hails Rally by Roma
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By Paul Virgoin RomeThe Roma substitute Mirko Vucinic scored a splendid second-half goal to earn a 2-1 win over Group F rivals Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League on Tuesday night.The Montenegro forward, on for the injured captain Francesco Totti,...
Constitutional Reforms Will Enshrine Right of MPs to Vote on Going to War
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By Colin Brownand Nigel MorrisSome of the most sweeping changes to the powers of Parliament are to be announced today, including a guarantee that MPs will have a vote before British troops can go to war.Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, will also reinforce...
Darfur Peace Talks 'Doomed' after Rebel Leaders Pull Out
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Peace talks aimed at ending the four-and-a-half-year conflict in Sudan's Darfur region could be doomed before they begin after the leaders of the two largest rebel groups said they would not take part.Khalil Ibrahim, the leader of the Justice and Equality...
Debate Is Being Stifled by a New Form of Inquisition
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What do has-been "comedian" Jim Davidson, DNA pioneer Professor James Watson, TV nature man David Bellamy and Tory MP Patrick Mercer have in common? They have all been recently denounced and told - You can't say that or else!Whether or not unpalatable...
Desperate Battle to Repel Flames
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xPresident Bush declares 'major disaster' as cost of California blaze exceeds Pounds 1bn Fires swallow up 400,000 acresBy Andrew Gumbelin Los AngelesCalifornia's raging wildfires reached the vast Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base last night where they...
Diary
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It fell to Chris Jarvis (right), the kiddies' TV presenter, to warm up the audience at last Sunday's National Teaching Awards. The applause was to have been canned for the BBC2 broadcast that aired immediately afterwards. Seeing the sea of silver hair...
Education Quandary
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'Our 12-year-old wants to become a doctor, but her school is not strong in science. Should we sent her to private school?'Hilary's adviceIf you want to know what is rotten at the heart of a society, look at its schools. When I was international editor...
'Everything Is Possible,' Say Lyons in Attempt to Attract Unsettled Drogba
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By Adrian CurtisDidier Drogba's Chelsea future is under the spotlight again after the French champions, Lyons, admitted an interest in the Ivorian striker. Drogba caused a storm at Stamford Bridge last week when he announced, in an interview with France...
Fleet Street Is the Stage for a Tale of Jealousy Worthy of Shakespeare
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Roger Alton's resignation as editor of The Observer may seem to outsiders like a little local difficulty. Don't you believe it. In fact it marks the culmination of a titanic power struggle far more bloody and ruthless than almost anything one is likely...
Foreign Inmates to Face Deportation 'As Soon as Possible'
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By Nigel MorrisHome Affairs CorrespondentThe deportation of foreign prisoners to countries such as Jamaica and Nigeria will begin as soon as possible, Gordon Brown promised yesterday as he came under pressure over the prisons crisis. The Prime Minister's...
Forgotten Fathers
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They lie in overgrown graves, but the Victorians whose brand of 'muscular Christianity' founded 12 of the 38 clubs to play in the Premier League are at last being given the credit they deserve, thanks to the painstaking detective work of a Liverpool...
Forgotten Fathers
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They lie in overgrown graves, but the Victorians whose brand of 'muscular Christianity' founded 12 of the 38 clubs to play in the Premier League are at last being given the credit they deserve, thanks to the painstaking detective work of a Liverpool...
Glastonbury's 'X-Factor' Offers Slots to New Talent
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By Amol RajanThose who annually don wellingtons and pack tents might be shocked at the thought, but Glastonbury is taking The X Factor route. For the UK's biggest music festival is hijacking the format of the Saturday night television show in an attempt...
Good Girl Gone Bad
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How will a self-confessed geek from Yorkshire become the cool heroine of 'Desperately Seeking Susan' in the West End? Alice Jones meets Emma Williams to find outEmma Williams is sipping on a steaming bowl of nutritious, noxious-smelling brown broth and...
GSK Figures Hit by Struggling Avandia
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Andrew DewsonGlaxoSmithKline, the UK's larg-est pharmaceutical group, rep- orted third-quarter numbers at the bottom end of consensus forecasts yesterday, hit by lower sales of Avandia, its diabetes treatment, and generic competition. The company also...
GSK Hit by Avandia Woes and Generic Competition
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Andrew DewsonGlaxoSmithKline, the UK's largest pharmaceutical group, reported third-quarter numbers at the bottom end of consensus forecasts yesterday, hit by lower sales of Avandia, its diabetes treatment, and generic competition. The company also announced...
Hansard Is No Help in This Confusion
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TheSketchBut let's not get the lawyers involved, let's assume that everyone is telling the truth, acting from the best motives, working to reveal the higher nature of humanity. Any two of the above will do. Actually, one would be fine, and beeasier to...
He's out There
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'On a fruity photo of a Swedish chick I added a phone number. Soon, the cards were all over W11 and W2'Oh boo-hoo, boo-hoo-boo-hooboohoo... You lost at everything again, what a surprise! I was safely ensconced in the Cooperdome with a couple of normal...
How Schwarzenegger Has Learnt Lessons of Katrina
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By Andrew GumbelArnold Schwarzenegger has no problem playing the action man. Ever since wildfires started raging out of control across southern California last weekend, the movie star turned governor has barely stopped moving - hopping by helicopter...
How to Make Your Year out Count
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gap year Whether you want to teach English abroad or build wells, it's essential to plan ahead, says Miriam LauranceWhatever stage you're at, taking a year off to do something different can be one of the best times of your life. But it's all too easy...
'I'd Scrape the Worms off with My Penknife'
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The actor and 'Time Team' presenter Tony Robinson once had a cunning little van my first jobTony Robinson's holiday job when a student sounds like something straight out of his Time Team series. He was at Central School of Speech and Drama, in training...
If You Go Down to My Woods Today
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Owning a plot of forest isn't just for the wealthy. For a new breed of nature-loving investors, it's a chance to give something back to the land - and preserve it for the next generation. Meg Carter reportsMike & Tracey PeplerWhen the Peplers, who are...
Insurance Chief Bright Jailed for Seven Years
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By Sean FarrellFinancial EditorMichael Bright, the former boss of Independent Insurance, was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday for his part in the fraud that caused the company's collapse.In sentencing Bright, Judge Geoffrey Rivlin described...
I Picked Up the Baton from Bernstein Classical
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LSO: ameriques Barbican londonWhen Marin Alsop lifts her baton to conduct the Symphonic Dances from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story at the start of the LSO's Ameriques season, she will be affirming one of the greatest influences on her musical life....
It's Yearning for Learning That's Got Melvyn Turning
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National Poetry Day came and went when I was away, so belatedly I bring you this folk classic which I once collected in the Lake District, called "Old Bragg's Ballad".Lord Bragg of CumbriaWas a clever old blokeWho wrote clever novelsAnd knew clever folkWho...
Jol Points the Finger at Players for Spurs' Slide into Trouble
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By Marc IsaacsMartin Jol, the Tottenham manager, has responded to the critics who feel the club's poor start to the season is solely down to him and feels the time has come for his players to share the blame, naming the central defenders Michael Dawson...
Jol Points the Finger at Players for Spurs' Slide into Trouble
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By Marc IsaacsMartin Jol, the Tottenham manager, has responded to the critics who feel the club's poor start to the season is solely down to him and feels the time has come for his players to share the blame, naming the central defenders Michael Dawson...
Jol Points the Finger at Players for Tottenham's Woeful Start
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--footballBy Marc IsaacsMartin Jol, the Tottenham manager, has responded to the critics who feel the club's poor start to the season is solely down to him and feels the time has come for his players to share the blame, naming the central defenders Michael...
Koeman Irritated by PSV and 10-Man Fenerbahce
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By Theo Ruizenaarin EindhovenPSV Eindhoven were held to a goalless draw at home by 10-man Fenerbahce in their Champions League Group G match on Tuesday.Until the dismissal of De Souza Deivid, who was shown a straight red card in the 64th minute for kicking...
Let's Not Overestimate the Threat from Ahmadinejad
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Should we be worried about the sudden change in Iran's negotiating team on the nuclear issue? In an obvious sense, the answer has to be yes.At the very least it signals a hardening of Iran's stance in nuclear negotiations at a time when Washington, and...
Life Behind the Scenes of Stardom
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recruitment Integrity, modesty and discretion: Hazel Davis finds out what it takes to work for a celebrityGeorge Clooney supposedly bought a house for his and Oprah Winfrey famously offered hers 1m to stay in the job. Parties with pop stars, free clothes...
Liverpool Hopes Wilt in Heat of Istanbul Cauldron
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besiktas 2 liverpool 1By Ian Herbert at the Inonu StadiumHow could two evenings in Istanbul conceivably provide greater contrasts? The one Liverpool fans will always remember saw them paint the place red and roar their side on to improbable glory. But...
Lynch a 'Very Talented and Stylish' Rider, Trainer Tells Old Bailey
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By Shenai RaifA trainer described one of the jockeys in the 2m race-fixing trial at the Old Bailey yesterday as "a very talented rider". Kevin Ryan said Fergal Lynch had a good understanding of horses and was a good tactical rider as well as being "very...
Lynch a 'Very Talented and Stylish' Rider, Trainer Tells Old Bailey
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By Shenai RaifA trainer described one of the jockeys in the 2m race-fixing trial at the Old Bailey yesterday as "a very talented rider". Kevin Ryan said Fergal Lynch had a good understanding of horses and was a good tactical rider as well as being "very...
Merrill Lynch Piles on the Credit Misery
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OUTLOOKFirst the good news. Market gossip doing the rounds in recent days that Merrill Lynch would announce credit crunch-related write- offs of $12bn (5.8bn) in its third-quarter results turned out to be unfounded. Yesterday, Merrill's said its write-down...
Merrill Lynch Reveals $7.9Bn Write-Down
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Banking giant's sub-prime losses 'staggering' w US property market falls worse than expectedBy Stephen Foleyin New YorkA $7.9bn write-down by the investment banking giant Merrill Lynch has reignited controversy over how big the losses from the mortgage...
Messi Plots Revenge for Ibrox 'Anti-Football'
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By Lisa GrayLionel Messi has accused Rangers of playing "anti-football" in the goalless Champions League meeting at Ibrox and warned they will suffer at the Nou Camp. Barcelona dominated for large spells in the Group E match, but failed to break down...
Microsoft Pays $240M to Clinch Stake in Facebook
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By Stephen FoleyFacebook, the social networking website founded by a university student less than four years ago, is worth $15bn (7.3bn) according to the terms of a new deal between the company and Microsoft.Microsoft is paying $240m for a small equity...
Morgan Crucible Is Back in Takeover Spotlight
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Market ReportTalk of renewed takeover interest in Morgan Crucible surfaced yesterday afternoon. The mid-tier industrial ceramics group was up 4.75p, but retreated with the market, after talk of the possible bid from an unnamed suitor. It closed down...
MPs May Vote on 13-Week Abortions
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By Colin BrownPro-life campaigners are planning to force a vote on cutting the upper time limit for abortion from 24 weeks to as low as 13 weeks when the Government Bill on embryology is introduced in the Commons next month.The campaigners say they want...
Nafzger's 'Monster' Primed to Buck Trend
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By Chris McGrathat Monmouth ParkNo, Carl Nafzger is not nervous. Partly because, if you ask him why he gave up riding bulls for a living, he will sometimes remove his upper teeth and give a wordless, expressive grin. But also because he has the homespun...
Nafzger's 'Monster' Primed to Buck Trend
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By Chris McGrathat Monmouth ParkNo, Carl Nafzger is not nervous. Partly because, if you ask him why he gave up riding bulls for a living, he will sometimes remove his upper teeth and give a wordless, expressive grin. But also because he has the homespun...
North and South Are Just States of Mind
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Does the north/south divide still exist? A new map of Britain completely dispenses with the Midlands as a region, declaring them "confusing". Professor Danny Dorling, who teaches Human Geography at Sheffield University, has drawn a controversial new...
O'Shea Helps United Forget Injury Worries
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By Glenn MooreIt is hard to tell who is busiest at Manchester United matches at the moment, the scoreboard operator or the physio. The injury toll may be mounting week-by-week but the goals continue to flow.Injuries to Paul Scholes, who is awaiting the...
O'Shea Helps United Forget Injury Worries
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By Glenn MooreIt is hard to tell who is busiest at Manchester United matches at the moment, the scoreboard operator or the physio. The injury toll may be mounting week-by-week but the goals continue to flow.Injuries to Paul Scholes, who is awaiting the...
O'Shea Helps United Forget Injury Worries
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By Glenn MooreIt is hard to tell who is busiest at Manchester United matches at the moment, the scoreboard operator or the physio. The injury toll may be mounting week-by-week but the goals continue to flow.Injuries to Paul Scholes, who is awaiting the...
Padre Pio 'Faked His Stigmata with Acid'
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Padre Pio, the friar with fingerless gloves whose image is found on a million Catholic key chains; who was canonised before 200,000 ecstatic pilgrims five years ago, was a charlatan who deliberately mutilated himself with acid to give the appearance...
Pandora
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Bardot offers Kate advice about the thrill of the chaseUnless one has a robust constitution, it is best not to ask Brigitte Bardot, right, her thoughts about race, immigration or homosexuality. On the subject of ensaring young men, however, the French...
Picture Post
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Night fantastic: New York's party peopleOnce upon a time in New York, from about 1971 to 1983 to be more precise, nightlife meant just that. In the decade between the Vietnam war and the spectre of Aids, Manhattan was hedonism central. There were drugs,...
Pioneer, Genius, Magician. Even among the World's Elite Chefs, Ferran Adria Is Pretty Special. but What Gave Him the Idea to Encase Egg Yolks in Caramel? What Does He Makeof Jamie Oliver? and Can Susie Rushton Manage to Jump the 125-Year Queue at His Restaurant, El Bulli?
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Ferran Adria, the world's greatest living chef, is relaxing with an espresso in the expensively twee Georgian Restaurant on the top floor of Harrods. British restaurants, he allows, are not only no longer embarrassingly bad, but "Fantastica - haute cuisine...
Poker by Nic Szeremeta
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A couple of interesting scandals have hit the world of high stakes internet poker over the past few weeks. One that has had the poker chat rooms buzzing involves AbsolutePoker's virtual card room. What has emerged is that a player with the nickname Potripper...
Pop
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siouxsie Astoria 2 london HHHHIt's been 31 years since Susan Janet Ballion first took to the stage at the 100 Club on Oxford Street to perform a cut-up of "The Lord's Prayer", though it's probably her appearance with the Sex Pistols on the Bill Grundy...
Power Struggle Claims 'Observer' Editor
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By Ian BurrellThe future independence of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper was thrown into doubt last night after The Observer's editor quit unexpectedly following a bitter falling-out with senior figures at the title's sister paper, The Guardian.Roger...
Pupils Now Know Less and Are More Stressed
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commentThis autumn, for the first time in 30 years, I don't have a child in school. My eldest started school in September 1977 and my youngest left last July. I have had 30 unbroken years of speech days, sports days, school plays, Christmas carol services,...
Pyongyang Bobby Is This Kim Jong-Il's Man in New Jersey?
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To his customers, he is just a restaurateur. But is he also a pivotal figure in US relations with a pariah regime? David Usborne meets the mysterious Bobby Egan The voice ofNorth Koreain the WestBobby Egan ushers me out into the lobby of his brightly...
Rangers' European Charge Shows No Sign of Slowing after Taming Barcelona
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By Nick HarrisAfter Rangers' latest stirring performance in Europe on Tuesday - holding the Champions League favourites, Barcelona, to a 0-0 draw at Ibrox - Walter Smith joked that having no 'O' Levels meant that qualifying permutations were beyond him....
R. B. Kitaj
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Ceaselessly inventive artist whose work provoked both great admiration and furious controversyA painter and writer of extraordinary imagination and force, R.B. Kitaj made a distinctive contribution to art and thought in his time. Innovative in both content...
Reality Bites in the Slums of Nairobi
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schools When teachers from England visited schools in the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, they were shocked by the bare earth floors and barren classrooms. The big question was how to help. Hilary Wilce reportsThe track into the slums of Mukuru leads...
Resolute Rangers Left with Simple Equation
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By Nick HarrisAfter Rangers' latest stirring performance in Europe on Tuesday - holding the Champions League favourites, Barcelona, to a 0-0 draw at Ibrox - Walter Smith joked that having no 'O' Levels meant that qualifying permutations were beyond him....
Resolute Rangers Left with Simple Equation
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By Nick HarrisAfter Rangers' latest stirring performance in Europe on Tuesday - holding the Champions League favourites, Barcelona, to a 0-0 draw at Ibrox - Walter Smith joked that having no 'O' Levels meant that qualifying permutations were beyond him....
Russia Jailed Khodorkovsky to Silence Him, Say Lawyers
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Lawyers for the jailed oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accused Russian authorities yesterday of trying to keep the former head of the country's biggest oil company locked up beyond next year's presidential election, four years after he was seized by...
Sarkozy's Green Revolution in Danger of Producing Nothing More Than Hot Air
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President Nicolas Sarkozy promises to add a green stripe to the French tricolour today in a speech which will place France at the cutting edge of the fight against global warming.That, in any case, is the theory. The contents of the President's speech...
Sarkozy's Green Revolution in Danger of Producing Nothing More Than Hot Air Launches 'Green Revolution' but Radical Ideas May Fall Victim to Poll Fears
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President Nicolas Sarkozy promises to add a green stripe to the French tricolour today in a speech which will place France at the cutting edge of the fight against global warming.That, in any case, is the theory. The contents of the President's speech...
Singapore Will Be Leap in Dark for Formula One
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By Thomas KeppellLewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen and co will face a new challenge next season after Formula One confirmed that Singapore's new circuit is to stage a floodlit night race in 2008, the first time a Grand Prix will have been raced after dark.The...
Singapore Will Be Leap in Dark for Formula One
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By Thomas KeppellLewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen and co will face a new challenge next season after Formula One confirmed that Singapore's new circuit is to stage a floodlit night race in 2008, the first time a Grand Prix will have been raced after dark.The...
Singapore Will Be Leap in Dark for Formula One
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By Thomas KeppellLewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen and co will face a new challenge next season after Formula One confirmed that Singapore's new circuit is to stage a floodlit night race in 2008, the first time a Grand Prix will have been raced after dark.The...
Sleeping Around
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Ihaven't heard from him since, but I would really like to thank the guy who stood me up this week. Seriously. I'd met Michael at the fish counter at Whole Foods, and chatted to him briefly at his party a few days later. So when he called to invite me...
Sproule Strike Fells Saints
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Bristol City 2 southampton 1By David InstoneSecond place is Bristol City's once more despite one of the least convincing performances since their arrival in the Championship. Two goals in the first 17 minutes, one a wonderful first for the club by the...
Sproule Strike Fells Saints
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Bristol City 2 southampton 1By David InstoneSecond place is Bristol City's once more despite one of the least convincing performances since their arrival in the Championship.Two goals in the first 17 minutes, including a wonderful first for the club...
Standard Life Mulls Last-Minute Bid in Battle for Resolution
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By Sean FarrellFinancial EditorStandard Life's potential bid for rival insurer Resolution was finely balanced last night as it workedtowards getting a recommendation from the Resolution board ahead oftoday's deadline.The Takeover Panel has given Standard...
Still Happy after All These Years
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We learnt this week that Donovan, icon of the flower power era, is still enthusiastically embracing alternative values. What about other high-fliers of 1960s counter-culture? Jonathan Brown finds outDonovanSINGER (BELOW RIGHT)In his early career...
