Students at the University of Florida Affirmative action numbers at Florida state universities have decreased since 2000 when thenGov Jeb Bush ended affirmative action by executive order.


Commuters cross a crowded street in Washington.


Hammock silhouette with palm trees on a beautiful beach at sunset Big stock.


When critics are supposed to abide by rules the urge to be the first can be irresistible.


Designed by Dennese GuadeloupeRoja of Interiors by Design and Diane S Taitt of DeSpace Designs.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Charleston WVa.


Tasha Williams had wanted to have a baby by the time she was 25 A sister said she did nt want the father involved She did nt want a man to take care of her.


Odom married Khloe Kardashian in a very public wedding in September 2009 becoming a reality TV star.


Treehouse employee Lainie Block Wilker at work The company is defying the trend of long intense hours in tech startups Treehouse employees work only a 32hour work The office is closed on Fridays.


An investigation by the New York State attorney general found that storebrand supplements being sold at WalMart Walgreens GNC and Target often did not contain the herbs shown on their labels.


An inspector holds a leaf from an orange tree that is showing signs of citrus greening caused by the Asian citrus psyllid.


Boston broke multiple records for snowfall this winter including snowiest season.


To help their food budget Tracy Knable 53 has turned her back yard in Hagerstown Md into a vegetable garden She also plans to build a chicken coop for the eggs and meat Although her adult children are doing well Knable said she thinks this is an era of shrinking opportunities If you go into the service industry you ca nt survive on the pay she said If you go to college you have to ask Am I able to afford the debt.


French Prime minister Manuel Valls front arrives at the Elysee Palace for a defense and security council meeting Wednesday Safety features to face the terror threat will be adapted for the backtoschool period including a military redeployment and a greater number of proactive patrolling the ministers of defense and interior said.


A Lebanese rescue worker carries an injured boy at the site of the explosion.


Brazil s President Dilma Rousseff is greeted by residents after a signing ceremony for new housing units at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia on May 6.


Referee Tony Weeks watches as Mayweather upper left knocks down Marquez during their 2009 match.


DC could legalize pot as early as Feb 28 with no regulation or means for legal sale One DC entrepreneur sees financial opportunity in chocolates infused with hemp oil or eventually the active chemical in pot.


Bernie Sanders thanks supporters after winning in Vt.


This still image taken from video posted on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman shows a dinghy collecting wreckage.


Maria von Trapp who died Feb 18 at her home in Vermont was the last surviving member and secondeldest daughter of the musical family whose escape from Nazioccupied Austria was the basis for The Sound of Music READ Maria Von Trapp dies.


First lady Michelle Obama speaks during an event with the cast of the Broadway play Hamilton in the State Dining Room of the White House on March 14 2016.


The menagerie of DC taxi color schemes may be nearing an end.


Kathleen Murphy cries as she learns that John Foust lost to Barbara Comstock in the race for Virginia s 10th Congressional District seat She ran against Comstock last year in a House of Delegates race and lost by a small margin.


Fey Poehler and Daily Show star Jon Stewart speak onstage at Comedy Central s Night of Too Many Stars a special to raise money for autism programs.


Bash Kazi hugs Prince Harry at the conclusion of the match.


Obama third from left meets with European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso fourth from right European Council President Herman Van Rompuy third from right and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton second from right during the USEU Summit at the European Headquarters in Brussels.


American Pharoah second from right leads the field.


Mary Alexander mother of Grim Sleeper victim Alicia Monique Alexander asks Lonnie David Franklin Jr to look at her as she asks him a question during victims impact statements before he was sentenced to death.


Rick Santorum holds up a piece of oilrich shale rock at a rally Tuesday in Grand Rapids Mich.


Opposition supporters participate in a protest against President Nicolas Maduro s government Venezuela ordered the expulsion of three US diplomats on charges that they recruited university students to lead demonstrations Three people have died in the OPEC nation s most serious violence since Maduro s election in April.


A paramilitary police officer carries the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi 3 after a number of migrants died and a smaller number were reported missing after boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized near the Turkish resort of Bodrum on Sept 2.


The Japanese partmaker could be backed up for months with requests for replacement air bags.


Jamaica s Usain Bolt wins gold in the 100m dash as Justin Gatlin of the United States wins the silver.


An image provided by the Israeli military from a video that was shot through a nightvision scope shows troops moving through an opening in a wall in the early hours of the ground offensive in Gaza.


Many of the museum s walls are lined with quotes The verse seen here is from a poem by Langston Hughes I Too.


President Obama views the Dead Sea Scroll at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem during the second day of his visit to Israel and the West Bank territory.


The Washington Redskins logo is displayed on a hat for sale at a store in California.


Zoe Baird is pictured at her January 1993 Senate confirmation hearing to become attorney general.


Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses the Democratic National Committee.


For anyone who has not noticed Douglas Jemal is back During the recession the cowboy bootclad District developer was behind on his taxes and floating the possibility of selling some of his nicest buildings How things have changed Jemal and his sons Norman and Matthew inked LivingSocial to a slew of leases and formed joint ventures with other developers allowing construction to start on some of their longheld properties and putting Jemal back into acquisition mode The family picked up a charter school building in Northeast DC and 1401 14th St NW in Logan Circle over the holidays Where will the Jemals next move come Best bets are the Hecht s Warehouse and the Uline Arena.


Sasha Stamper 3 of Capitol Hill plays with a toy loading crane.


View Photo Gallery The Salahis have captured the media s attention ever since the couple crashed a White House state dinner back in November 2009.


Flooding causes numerous problems on Front Street in Georgetown.


Sophie Cruz arrives at Dulles International Airport early Thursday She visited the White House for a Cinco de Mayo celebration.


Carson People want to force their beliefs on others.


Republican vicepresidential nominee Paul Ryan and moderator Martha Raddatz listen to Vice President Biden during the vicepresidential debate at Centre College in Danville Ky.


A 10000 yearold prehistoric forest off the coast of Norfolk UK Dawn Watson was diving in the North Sea off the coast of Cley next to the Sea which experts believe is near the site of a prehistoric forest.


If it was nt for her I would nt be graduating.


The ocean and Havana are pictured from an Old Havana rooftop.


Emergency vehicles are seen outside the renowned Watergate complex after the collapse of a parking garage May 1.


Spanish workers with a rescue dog look for survivors in the debris in Kathmandu.


Media gather at the airport near the hijacked EgyptAir Airbus.


Amtrak train passenger Sadarein Walker is escorted to a waiting ambulance.


Amy Schumer at Comedy Central s roast of Roseanne Barr.


These baby cheetahs were born about five weeks ago at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Chesterfield Va just outside Richmond There are three male and two female cubs The asyetunnamed babies and their mother Lana are the stars of the Richmond Cheetah Cam.


Kim Shinyeo Han s mother brushes and arranges her daughter s hair at Gangwon Rehabilitation Hospital Han was severely disabled by the surgery to remove her brain tumor.


Flickr photo courtesy of user Arileu under a Creative Commons license.


Mike Huckabee hosts Playin Possum The Final No Show Tribute To George Jones Show at Bridgestone Arena on November 22 2013 in Nashville Tennessee.


A shuttle bus pulls up to the NoMa station during the shutdown Nearly a quarter of Metro s weekend passengers were affected by the shutdown.


President Obama is greeted upon his arrival at the State House in Dar es Salaam accompanied by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete.


The mother of Teresa Romero Ramos the Spanish nurse who is the first known case of humantohuman Ebola infection outside of Africa looks out of her home in Galicia Spain.


Sophia Velikaia of Russia competes with Yana Egorian of Russia in the sabre individual gold medal bout.


Prince Harry and Prince William second and third from left pose with Star Wars cast and crew members including actor Mark Hamill director Rian Johnson actor John Boyega Chewbacca and British actress Daisy Ridley during a tour of the Star Wars set at Pinewood studios in Iver Heath west of London.


Joe Stemrich of Bethlehem Pa talks with Claudio Mora of Dallas on Independence Mall.


Soldiers conduct marksmanship training during cultural support team.


Even from their first days bickering in the Millennium Falcon Leia and Han Solo never seemed right for each other.


Men warm themselves by a fire in a rebel controlled area of Aleppo Syria Residents of this once prosperous city are trying to get back to their daily lives after months of heavy fighting.


A man jogs through the blossoming lotus July 31 at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Washington Though Relisha Rudd has slipped from the headlines the mystery of her disappearance haunts her family friends detectives and those acres of lotus blossoms and water lilies where hope for her was once thick.


Gregory Hicks former US deputy chief of mission to Libya.


Kurdish border police soldiers take down the Islamic State black flag after taking control of Yangega Village in Iraq on Sept 1.


Fishing buddies Ernest Hemingway and thenCuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro in Havana in 1960.


Thomas DowningInspired NYC Oyster Pan Roast as it is served at the Sweet Home Cafe.


Fmr Virginia gov Robert McDonnell on trial.


Singersongwriter Judith Hill went simple with a black and white mini.


Juanita Moore a groundbreaking actress and an Academy Award nominee for her role as Lana Turner s friend in the classic weeper Imitation of Life died Jan 1 Her grandson actor Kirk Kelleykahn said she was 99 Accounts of her age have differed over the years READ Juanita Moore dies.


India s Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma rack up a firstwicket partnership of 76 as India begin their chase.


The EFSF could end up paying more than expected to borrow the bailout money Source M G Investments.


Gus Poyet applauds Sunderland s supporters after the 20 win against West Bromwich Albion ensured his side stayed up.


Wild peregrines nests are usually inaccessible or the birds not human tolerant These rare images show the nesting cycle of wild peregrine falcons with the Chicago skyline as a stunning backdrop.


Clare Moriarty started tweeting in 2012 with the idea that Twitter could help women develop at work.


The cover of the Viewspaper highlights the breadth of comment and opinion inside.


Research shows lookedafter children and care leavers are three times more likely to become teenage mothers than peers who have not been in state care.


Local artist Edward Von Longus takes on drugs policy on Tartu s walls.


Yarnold was top of the standings after two runs and is primed to win gold tomorrow.


Sunderland hope Jermain Defoe can provide the goals they desperately need to stay up.


Racial stereotypes Rio 2 Aladdin The Little Mermaid and Dumbo.


Squatting is still not a criminal offence in the UK and squatters have the right not to be evicted without a court order.


Mannequins display swimwear outside a shop.


This humpback appeared off the side of the boat last month It hung perpendicularly watching us through the water like a watery alien The onboard naturalist admitted he d never seen this strange position before.


Tommy Tomescu a Romanian dentist and London MEP candidate for the Europeans party.


An extraordinary piece of work Wolfgang Voigt s Gas.


Reflections on growing up in The Sunlit Night.


Ray Aghayan was nominated for an Oscar for his work on Lady Sings the Blues with Diana Ross above as Billie Holiday.


Kam Chancellor knocks the ball out of the hands of wide receiver Calvin Johnson on the goalline.


Inflatable dolls heads at the French company Domax It is the only company in Europe that offers inflatable dolls made from natural latex and they cost 200300 per doll.


The room where four children lived in the village of Cizhu in Guizhou one of China s poorest provinces.


Chancellor George Osborne talking to Ren Zhengfei president of Huawei Company on 16 October 2013.


Beached Blake Davis plays Arty the world s fattest teenager.


The ICO must prove risk of or actual distress as a result of calls but wants to be able to act when it sees a firm breaching rules.


SSD Xbench sequential and random readwrite comparisons.


England s Anya Shrubsole right celebrates taking the wicket of Australia s Ellyse Perry on day one of the Women s Ashes Test.


Britain s top 100 dentists recorded a turnover of almost 1bn last year a 22 rise since 2010.


Australian psychological horror The Babadook It suffered a little because of its genre says actor Lennie James.


The Clangers just the right combination of the familiar and the fantastical.


Just grit your teeth young one and go to your happy place This will all be over soon.


In search of sounds during a performance of a Cunningham event at the Musee d Art Moderne in Paris 1970.


1962 A rather politically incorrect beret modelled by Celia Hammond Mirman said hats always gave women confidence.


Tui a flatcoated retriever sniffer dog is being trained to sniff out the mice.


Oh dear this is nt going well How much longer is there to go.


Homage to DaliDali Universe has opened a new exhibition of work by contemporary fashion designers Daliinspired dresses by edgy Brit labels Modernist Manish Arora and Bora Aksu feature alongside fantastical frocks from big names such as Julien Macdonald Moschino and Sonia Rykiel Homage to Dali is on at the Dali Universe County Hall Riverside Building London SE1.


An email from Andy Burnham s campaign also said there were a limited number of tickets to offer a big discount for our local members and supporters down to just 30 per person.


Irish rebels during the Easter Rising in 1916.


The annual Kerala seedfest is like a walk through a proverbial garden of Eden.


German steelworkers the country s industrial production fell by 29 in December.


The Ministry of Foreign Affairs one of Moscow s seven Stalinist skyscrapers.


Mohammed Muntari grounded scores Qatar s opener against Bhutan in Thimphu.


The Jackson 5 on stage For the new album sister Jackie will join three of the brothers.


David Shrigley This poster doesn t express my strong personal support although of the three of them I would like Brown to win Download a PDF of this poster.


Cal Davies 16 Most of my friends who have had askfm have received a question saying Why are you so ugly or When are you going to kill yourself.


Exterior of the flat Who could imagine the delight it contains.


Perhaps it wants its heroes to be flawed The Toronto skyline featuring the distinctive CN Tower.


Kyran Bracken Retired from internationals in 2003 Lured by the slow siren song of reality television he won the 2007 edition of Dancing On Ice.


Leon Lederman won the 1988 Nobel prize for physics.


Michael Gove We must have the right incentives for prisoners to learn.


Left to right Royal Canadian Mounted Police assistant commissioner James Malizia chief superintendent Jennifer Strachan and Ontario provincial police deputy commissioner Scott Tod.


Plas Newydd National Trust property in Wales where a new marine pump has been installed.


The Reverend Jesse Jackson speaks to the media upon arriving at New Shiloh Baptist Church.


The vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission of China Xie Zhenhua speaks during a meeting with NGO organisations.


Sporting KC are in contention for the Open Cup and MLS Cup this season.


That sinking feeling how do you persuade a coworker to wash up.


Pretoria South Africa French rider Remi Bizouard silhouetted against the sky during a warming up session in the wideopen savanna as a giraffe walks in the foreground prior to the fourth stage of the Red Bull XFighters world tour.


Consumer rights Current laws are complicated and unfriendly.


Clashes in the northern Dar Saad neighbourhood of Aden.


The BRC says nonfood deflation accelerated in February to 25 from 18 in January.


Old Street roundabout the centre of London s technology sector.


The Oklahoma Sooners tight end Jermaine Gresham went at No21 and was taken by the Cincinatti Bengals.


Kenwyne Jones rises highest to win a header against Lescott.


The BBFC has received its first complaint about The Railway Children Photographs AllstarEMISportsphoto LtdEverett CollectionRex FeaturesWalt DisneyPixar20th Century FoxEverett.


A different game catching practice gear has changed a bit over the years.


Amir Khan puts one on Devon Alexander during their welterweight bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena Khan won by unanimous decision.


The competitors walk through a water spray to cool them down during the men s 20km race walk final.


Bandung Indonesia Rams fight during a traditional Sundanese cultural event.


Peter Capaldi followed Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat in voicing support for the BBC.


A common whelk shell on a beach A new study has examined the effect of increased tourism on marine life.


Israeli tanks near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip in August 2014 By benefiting from money from the Israeli state the cinemas become silent accomplices to the violence inflicted on the Palestinian people.


Asylum seekers from Ivory Coast protest against conditions in their refugee shelter in Naples.


Microsoft s current logo and beneath one of its most loved which lasted for almost 25 years.


The firm is contacting clients after investigators say an exemployee stole account information from clients of its wealthmanagement division.


In 2007 scientists described a new species of skink from several isolated localities in Sabah Sarawak and Kalimantan This skink had been mistakenly referred to as Lipinia quadrivittata for 90 years It was only when a team of scientists examined the Borneo skink carefully that they realised the species had different DNA colouration and an independent evolutionary history The new species finds itself in good company Nanga Tekalit in Sarawak is rich in herpetofauna including as many as 40 species of lizards.


Romelu Lukaku celebrates after scoring Everton s winner against Dynamo Kyiv from the penalty spot.


Simon Harwood trial the judge requested news websites to take down selected stories.


Liverpool s Luis Suarez back from his 10game biting ban says he is calmer and a different person.


The Ranger immersing a Remotely Operated Vehicle in El Hierro.


The sunrise over Castle Hill in Kirklees Yorkshire With largely clear skies and no cloud cover the public are being urged to take care on untreated roads and paths hit by frost.


NSW premier Mike Baird on the campaign trail for the final time on Friday 27 March.


AlphaMax Academy in Paramaribo Suriname Lighting diyas around the bust of Rabindranath Tagore.


For stagemanaged spectacles one is tempted to place PMQs somewhere between a Punch and Judy show a pantomime and a farce.


A soybean farmer in Mato Grosso Brazil The country s family farmers are encouraged to feed urban populations.


Pue Hui Ying 76 years old in 2011 Yunnan provincePue s feet were bound at seven and were briefly unbound at 12 as was required at that time Unbinding hurt as it forced the women to readjust the way they stood and walk with broken toes Because of this Pue has kept her feet bound to this day An avid bowler she told me she travelled to Kunming once a month to take part in a tournament.


A protest sign is seen on a tree in the Forest of Dean Gloucestershire one of the the country s heritage woodlands which was dues to be affected by the government s plans for a 250 million selloff of England s public forests.


David Finlay points out that there are limits to the defender s reputation as one of football s good guys.


People swim during the annual public Lake Zurich crossing swimming event The participants swam a distance of 1500m.


A Kindle ereader and conventional paper books.


Turbulent sorcery Johann Christian Bach Photo Archivo Iconografico SACorbis.


Fine wine detail of Titian s Bacchus and Ariadne Click for the full image.


SELFBUILD Quinta Monroy Iquique ChileWhen Alejandro Aravena and his practice Elemental were asked to design homes for squatter communities in Iquique they realised two things that the government budget of 7500 per home would only pay for miserable little boxes and that the squatters had already shown their desire to build for themselves Elemental decided to offer half a good house something that would meet basic needs and encourage residents to augment it themselves over time Which is exactly what s happened There are other successful examples in for example Almere in Holland and in Britain Walter Segal pioneered some beautiful approaches on sites in Lewisham south London But the complex planning system and the domination of land ownership by housebuilding companies are severe obstacles The government has stated its desire to encourage selfbuild but unless it addresses these issues such homes will remain picturesque rarities.


The BBC will be the subject of a service at All Souls church next to its new HQ to pray for the corporation s future.


Isis fighters have surprised Kurdish peshmerga with their tenacity and killed an unknown but believed to be large number of civilians.


If we want happy and productive citizens in our society we must care well for our children and young people.


Iraqi militia leader Hadi alAmiri speaks to the press in Samarra.


Tottenham Hotspur s Togolese striker Emmanuel Adebayor turned down the chance to leave the club on loan.


Responsibilities of parliamentary undersecretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs will be passed to Shapps until further notice.


About 3000 supporters turned out for the funeral of Imam Samudra in Serang west Java.


Using a circus theme to represent the upcoming election with Farage as the unenigmatic Ringleader Representing the notion of voting to keep certain people out rather than wanting anyone in particular to be voted in as the general feeling is we are going to end up with the best of a bad lot.


Saving books from the flames One of the original Gary Blythe illustrations from the book I Believe in Unicorns.


Writer Aayan Hirsi Ali who has called Islam a destructive nihilistic cult of death.


England s manager Fabio Capello still has some homework to do with at least five places for his 23man World Cup squad undecided.


The goblet in the Basilica of San Isidoro in Leon northern Spain.


Playwright Aisha Zia was photographed at her home in east London for the same feature Her play No Guts No Heart No Glory has been a huge hit.


Robyn Lambley with the chief minister Adam Giles She called on him to resign in a speech to parliament on Tuesday.


The protest against axing the BBC licence fee was organised by media unions including the National Union of Journalists.


Anuj Bidve was shot in the head at close range early on Boxing Day Police are treating the shooting as a hate crime.


Jimmy Mubenga was pronounced dead at hospital a short time after being handcuffed and restrained on a plane at Heathrow.


The Hotel Quirinale in Rome where Cardinal George Pell is giving evidence via video link to the child abuse royal commission sitting in Sydney.


The crowd at Bestival on the Isle of Wight.


Law and Justice party supporters campaigning in Warsaw in October.


Tesco has admitted that its ownbrand hamburgers bolognese and lasagne were found to contain up to 100 horse.


Stephen Kamlish QC said there was compelling evidence of a corrupt relationship between police and private investigators.


Traditional dance groups march in the carnival in Lagos last year.


Molly having a shake After a long walk Molly always likes to cool down in the river.


Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Paris with French president Francois Hollande before Sunday s march.


Maryam with her grandmother Manzuma The family of six live in one small room The rest of the house was badly damaged by rockets during last year s fighting.


Ofcom is investigating how ITV s current affairs show Exposure mistakenly used video game footage in a documentary.


A Wisconsinborn US Navy veteran Scott Panetti was first diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1978 when he was 20.


Giorgio Locatelli s tubular pasta with red mullet and black olives As impressive to look at as it is to eat.


The auctioneer suggests that the sumptuous Baldi bathrooms in which a bathtub alone would have cost tens of thousands of pounds could auction in their entirety for just a few hundred pounds.


Glastonbury The town is a vision of an alternative Britain.


Nasa s Jet Propulsion Laboratory technicians at work on the new Curiosity Rover.


Novak Djokovic was rarely troubled by his Italian opponent.


I could nt find a picture of him in his colourful modern House of Lords costume.


If you re cooking a pot of polenta and eating some immediately don t add butter and parmesan to the entire batch as this will interfer with any future grilling or frying you intend to do.


Are you sitting comfortably A Schaubuhne production of Hedda Gabler at the Barbican.


A group of lawmakers is pushing for the NFL to pay its cheerleaders a fair wage.


Migrants help a man squeeze through a gap in a fence near the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles near Calais.


A Cancer Research UK shop The charity has received its biggestever donation of 10m from an anonymous source.


We can t be saying this is the match of our lives said the Italy hooker Leonardo Ghiraldini before only their second pool game against Canada on Saturday.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to supporters as he leaves an event in Franklin Tennessee.


All parents know that it is impossible and far from desirable to keep an eye on their children at all times.


BBC Broadcasting House in London Downing Street s criticism of the BBC is akin to a football manager railing against the referee after a 30 win with a disputed penalty.


An elegant and functional orphanage home made of old shipping containers.


Undercover officer Mark Kennedy had relationships with three of the women involved in the legal action.


The true significance of the which came first conundrum has always been more metaphorical than scientific.


Richard Pearson right as Stanley in the first production of Pinter s The Birthday Party at the Lyric Hammersmith 1958.


Pat LaFrieda original steak sandwich Citi Field Handcut 100 black angus seared filet mignon topped with Monterey Jack cheese and sweet caramelized onions served with a secret au jus on a custommade and toasted French baguette.


Carrie You Will Know Her Name Don t be surprised that the tagline for this remake of Brian De Palma s 1976 horror assumes ignorance This is Carrie for a new generation bigger bolder have a look at what the little madame has done in the trailer but potentially less bloody given the age of star Chloe Grace Moretz s fanbase Julianne Moore plays Mom hoping to coax Carrie out of the notion that no means pop school bully s head with telekenetic powers.


Treatments promoted by those who support the movement include the use of mistletoe to treat cancer on the grounds that mistletoe like cancer is parasitic.


Vladimir Putin with Barack Obama last month Our perception of Russians as people is also skewed by their language and the way they speak it.


Nicola Sturgeon as she launched her bid to become the Scottish National party s next leader.


Undated handout photos issued by Khan Solicitors of Sugra Dawood with her children Junaid Ahmed Iqbal Ibrahim Iqbal Zaynab Iqbal Mariya Iqbal and Ismaeel Iqbal Khadija Bibi Dawood with her children Muhammad Haseeb and Maryam Siddiqui and Zohra Dawood with her children Nurah Binte Zubair and Haafiyah Binte Zubair as the three British sisters and their nine children split into two groups to cross into Syria an Islamic State smuggler has claimed.


Industry minister Ian Macfarlane It s hard to find a town or city where a business hasn t been adversely affected by this.


A male olivebacked sunbird feeds its young In Life Ascending Nick Lane celebrates some of evolution s greatest inventions.


Right Sri Lankan army commander Sarath Fonseka.


A third of people surveyed said they even put off going to the loo in order to stay at their desk.


Xiaoyu s flute helps her combat homesickness.


Bogota Colombia A model presents a creation by the Colombian designer Lia Samantha during the Somos Color fashion show.


A Bible open at Ecclesiastes chapter three.


Delia Derbyshire seated at the mixing desk with Desmond Briscoe manager of the Radiophonic Workshop 1965.


The Scottish parliament building Holyrood in Edinburgh The scale of the parliament s debt which greatly exceeds its annual budget of 30bn has never been set out by ministers.


The Indian Queen by Henry Purcell and John Dryden.


Governments need to stop blaming refugees for economic and social problems says Shazia Mirza.


La Tuta s capture marks the latest in a string of highprofile arrests under Pena Nieto s government which has been aggressive in targeting drug kingpins.


The yellowhammer s little bit of bread and no cheese call is a sound that is disappearing from our countryside according to the atlas Forty years ago the species could be heard singing in almost every village of Britain and Ireland but the species is now missing from large swaths of Ireland western Scotland southern Wales and northern England representing a 32 contraction for this formerly widespread breeding bird.


Driven by southwesterly winter winds dust from the White Sands dune field in New Mexico rises thousands of feet from the valley floor and drifts over the snowy peaks of the Sacramento mountains White Sands National Monument lies in the 50 kilometre wide Tularosa valley between the dark rocks and forested slopes of the Sacramento mountains and the San Andres mountains The lower and warmer ridge line of the San Andres was without snow on the day this photograph was taken The striking black lava flows of the Carrizozo lava field also occupy the valley floor The darker tones of agriculture in the Rio Grande floodplain can be seen along the left margin of the image.


Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia Alija Izetbegovic of BosniaHerzegovina and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia sign the Dayton agreement on 21 November 1995.


Famous first words some of the books which the Man Booker listed authors find gripping right from their opening sentences.


Joe Pesci centre Robert De Niro top and Ray Liotta right in Goodfellas.


European Cup final Liverpool v Bruges 250My uncle was in his late teens and used to follow Liverpool all over and passed on ticket stubs programmes etc to me.


The government has begun writing to thousands of terminally ill people to say that contributory Employment and Support Allowance will be timelimited to one year from April 2012.


This means Warnog the official Klingon beer Click the magnifying glass for a fullcan photo.


This fivebedder in Berwickshire The agent describes it as a Blisted townhouse but it s more of a glorified flat in the centre of Duns because a bank occupies the ground floor and the palatial accommodation within the three storeys above used to accommodate the bank manager Those were the days when architecture was designed to reassure clients about a bank s solidity and the receptions and bedrooms are vast highceilinged ornately plastered and with shuttered windows The old servants quarters will absorb extraneous family An expansive walled garden extends behind with a drivethrough garage The downer is that all this grandeur is approached by a offstreet side door instead of the grand entrance it deserves Cost 295000 Smiths Gore 01289 333033.


Journalists and TV crews await the start of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition press conference at the Hotel Grand Chancellor.


Defending champion Victoria Azarenka is all smiles as she signs autographs for fans after easing past Monica Niculescu 61 64.


Gore leads viewers with calm determination through facts and figures laying out the problem at hand.


Maximum impact Graham Linehan told me he used to stand in the playground and dream that the Blitzspear would rescue him.


The sweet spot with bananas is fleeting when the perfume is perfect and no brown spots have formed This is the moment for these recipes.


Bob Bob Ricard It doesn t make a lot of sense but I don t need it to.


Michelle Obama shakes hands with Chinese president Xi Jinping as her daughters Malia and Sasha look on.


David Morgan the former ICC and ECB chairman has laid out his plans for the domestic game from 2014.


9 December 2011 ONeill during the training session at the Academy of Light Sunderland.


Prosecutor Juana Camila Bautista said When she leaned on the ironing board a little to rest she was beaten.


Brooke Shields aged 12 playing a child prostitute in the film Pretty Baby.


A US soldier from the Fort Belvoir army base hold Rosary beads and flags as she awaits the pontiff s arrival.


Chinese tourists visit Tiananmen Square which is being decorated for the upcoming military parade on 3 September.


A tractor ploughs over a harvested cornfield in Texas.


A member of a rescue team searches along the Virgin River on Wednesday in Zion National Park near Springdale Utah.


Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to seven years in prison for paying for underage sex with the former teenage nightclub dancer Karima elMahroug.


Bantengs in Mundul Kiri province near Phnom Penh Cambodia The world s largest population of banteng a type of cattle native to southeast Asia is at risk from hunters and agricultural concessions that have been granted inside protected areas of Cambodia a conservation group claims.


Pravin Gordhan with Lesetja Kganyago governor of the Reserve Bank of South Africa during a media briefing after Gordhan was reappointed as finance minister.


A keeper in disguise cleans a panda enclosure under the watchful eye of a real panda Photographer Ami Vitale was allowed exclusive access into the Wolong national nature reserve which trains pandas to be released into the wild.


An RAF transport aircraft making the first airdrop of British humanitarian aid to refugees fleeing Islamist militants in Iraq.


Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom grimmaces after falling to the floor during the fourth quarter of their Western Conference NBA playoff series against the Houston Rockets Houston won 9987.


Danny Willett tees off at the third hole during the final day of the BMW International.


Henry Cavill as Superman Characters intone expository dialogue in a manner that suggests they are heavily constipated.


Rachel Bloom the star of the CW s sole new show Crazy Ex Girlfriend.


The river Tamar near Cotehele Cornwall in an early morning mist December 2009.


Timothy Dalton and Maryam d Abo in The Living Daylights 1987.


A flooded area of Willow Way in Sunbury February 2014.


Hugo Chavez speaks during a press conference with a portrait of independence hero Simon Bolivar in the background.


Khan appeared in a video entitled There s No Life Without Jihad alongside Nasser Muthana and another man with a British accent.


Being aware of how little money is available means it makes more sense short term to spend a little for one day s food than a lot for several days when you ve no idea when you ll next receive any income.


A Punch illustration Kirkpatrick Macmillan added pedals in 1839 with Pierre Michaux mounting them on the front wheel with cranks in 1861 It soon became clear that bigger drive wheels meant faster bikes ushering in the dangerous era of the highwheeler machines apt to throw the rider forwards in a manoeuvre called taking a header.


Karim Benzema has won the Champions League La Liga and the Copa Del Rey at Real and four French titles at Lyon.


Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick is left sprawling as the Devils win 31.


Flurry s research compares app usage across smartphones and tablets by time spent.


John Sessions has criticised the management culture at the BBC and labelled the corporation s move to Salford as nonsense.


Croatian border police face refugees at the border with Serbia.


Tea time volunteer firefighters relax in Gumeracha about 40km from Adelaide on Sunday.


The Boeremag s alleged mastermind Mike du Toit and his brother Andre await sentencing at Pretoria high court.


A hunting mission for kangaroos It is feared that fracking operations within the boundaries of the Watarrka national park could also industrialise the region s hunting grounds sending traditional food sources such as kangaroos emus sand goannas and bush turkeys further afield.


Metropolis1927Fritz Lang s expressionist scifi epic has influenced everything from Superman to Blade Runner while false Maria the robot double of the peasant girl prophet in Berlin 2026 which unleashes chaos among the city s workers and is ultimately burnt at the stake as a witch was the first robot depicted on film and inspired the art deco look of C3PO in Star Wars Humanlike rating 810.


Jerry Hall is to marry Rupert Murdoch four months after they first met.


Afganistan s Samiullah Shenwari plays a shot during the T20 World Cup match against Zimbabwe in Nagpur.


Surreal estate the Garden Quarter CaversfieldIf the property bubble makes you wish you lived in a bunker this luxury renovation in Oxfordshire may be the answer The former decontamination bunker built in 1939 by the Air Ministry is now two twobedroom homes complete with roof terraces They are each on the market for 440000City Country 01869 253 999.


The nomadic hut is in its entirety a result of female ingenuity and collective effort.


Andrew Lansley has faced a storm of protest over NHS reforms.


A charity shop remains closed through the winter.


Andrew Garcia is one of four defendants being charged in connection to the 2014 beating death of USC graduate student.


Icann board members vote in favour of the generic toplevel domains scheme.


Victorian Labor party leader Daniel Andrews celebrates his win on Saturday night Federal MPs have played down claims that the election result was a repudiation of Abbott s unpopular budget policies.


Lil Wayne has been embroiled in legal wrangling with Cash Money CEO Birdman since the start of 2015.


Dodging Bullets and jockey Sam TwistonDavies in the winners enclosure after their win in the Champion Chase.


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James Henderson is taking over the leadership as fixedodd betting terminals come under scrutiny.


Mary Farrell 62 left and Nancy Sheehy 57 dressed in angel costumes so Pope Francis would know how much they love him as he passed them in the parade in Washington DC We were going to be nuns but we thought that would be sacrilegious Farrell said.


Scott Morrison has refused to apologise for airing allegations about Save the Children staff encouraging asylum seekers to selfharm after a review found there was no evidence they had done so.


Vince Cable who will today criticise a few of the well known failings of capitalism.


The rule is that you can t run out of vodka at a Polish wedding Catz n Dogz.


The carcasses are cleaned minutes after slaughter.


The NFL suspended star quarterback Tom Brady for the first four games of next season and fined the New England Patriots 1m for its role in Deflategate.


Manchester City s manager Roberto Mancini looks a bit weary himself as he watches his side lose to Chelsea.


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Peter Moore in a video issued by his kidnappers last February.


The Townley Discobolus part of an exhibition in the British Museum at the time of the 2012 Olympics Neil MacGregor s tenure as director is to end after 13 years.


Alastair Cook prepares for England s first Test against India in Ahmedabad.


The performers get splashed and splattered during Mozart Undone.


Alan Miller giving inmates the vote would reflect Scotland s concerns for human rights social justice and the effective rehabilitation of offenders.


England go on to defeat the Australians at The Oval to register a 21 series win and the Ashes return to England once again.


And of course it s not fair and the boy shouts it loudly into night sky At which point the angel comes down and agrees with him The angel says he will fly him there to Bethlehem on angel wings And he ll leave his heavenly chorus on guard to look after the sheep.


Chris Brunt of West Bromwich Albion takes the free kick that led to his team s goal against Manchester United.


Thousands upon thousands of handguns shotguns rifles and assault weapons were arrayed for inspection.


Isolated from the rest of the world until recently the Longhorn Miao people of Guizhou China maintain longheld customs Headwear made from horns often adorned with long lengths of wool hair or other textiles has given these unique people their tribal name.


JosephKonig high school It appears some journalists approached mourners at the candles with a dictaphone in their pockets to record conversations a mobile phone in a bouquet of flowers was allegedly used to take exclusive pictures.


Gosha Ostretsov Criminal Government Cell 999 2008.


Camden Cleaners and Laundromat Camden Alabama.


In 2014 8 of jobs were in manufacturing.


Royal Exchange Grand Cafe and Bar London UK business optimism is high due to a strong services sector.


An RAF Typhoon jet takes off to patrol the nofly zone over Libya in 2011 Missions are taking place in preparation for assisting a new government of national unity.


Muslim children attend a promosque rally.


Ganvie Benin Children pose outside a stilt house.


Tweets challenging David Cameron s record as prime minister have been trending.


The Pebble Time app from the Play Store handles settings apps and watchfaces.


Money talks debate and action needs to be taking place as a matter of urgency among current and future arts audiences writes Susan Jones.


The reason cited by the alleged Woolwich killers has been mostly brushed aside as unseemly to discuss.


Harry Redknapp s evidence was by turns funny and menacing sarcastic and defensive modest and arrogant petulant and charismatic.


Djibril Cisse of Queens Park Rangers is keen on a return move to Marseille.


Brian May probably did nt plan to interrupt his astrophysics PhD to become a rock star He finally completed his thesis in 2007.


Housebuilders retailers industries and other commercial concerns may be allowed greater access to prime land including the green belt.


John Whittingdale also said the BBC should consider reining in production of written content to avoid competing with newspapers.


The UN laboratories proposed by Sir Martin Rees would develop devices to monitor nuclear disarmament.


The wild garden in Preston Park Brighton.


Kelly Renee Gissendaner is on death row in Georgia.


Dr Clive Peedell campaigning for his National Health Action party in Witney.


Pitch Perfect 2 a celebration of female friendship and discovering oneself.


Luke with his first son Tommy when he was nine months old.


The LulzSec logo The group has denied involvement in the Bitcoin hack.


Nintendo Game Boy 1989 Designed by Nintendo s legendary R D expert Gunpei Yokoi the original Game Boy featured a modest monochrome display and 8bit processor Thanks to games like Tetris and Super Mario Land it sold almost 65m units before the arrival of the Game Boy Color.


Are teachers a new breed of time lord You need a tardis to have any sort of worklife balance says Secret Teacher.


Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master.


Deathcourting Ian Rankin drinking in the Oxford Bar in Edinburgh Inspector Rebus s favoured watering hole.


Wind turbines frequently inspire a special kind of wrath especially in communities faced with them being built on their doorsteps the windfarm at Hyndburn in Lancashire.


Yoro posing with one of his murals He says The original idea of the paintings sparked when I was shooting underwater portraits of women for some paintings early in 2014.


Wigan Athletic s DW Stadium could be used to cater for Rangers fans ahead of their Champions League tie at Old Trafford.


Katherine Viner chairs morning discussion at Open Weekend festival with Gary Younge Tim Dowling and Lucy Mangan.


Phylicia Rashad played Cosby s wife Clair Huxtable on TV for 12 years.


Second alert shows the ball cross the line after hitting the goal keeper.


Lynette Johnson healthcare assistant at the Whittington and Dorothy Vassiliadis outpatients booking coordinator.


Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe leads Argentina s celebrations after victory over Ireland on Sunday.


The US bankruptcy court in New York where General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.


The paper says it is not clear at which stage in a woman s life weight gain confers the greatest risk.


Maryse and Georges I don t know how I m going to live without his gaze.


Nick Mallett suggested at the weekend that Stuart Lancaster had already snared the post of England s head coach.


Stage 14Location Rodez to MendeStage winner Steve CummingsChris Froome fends off an attack from Nairo Quintana as they sprint for the line.


French police forces near a raid zone in SaintDenis.


If the Conowingo Dam were removed this would free up more than enough area to replace the lost hydroelectric generation with power from solar parks along the former reservoir bottom.


There is a lot of interest around charcoal in soils particularly terra preta the black earth of the Amazon Basin.


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A parrot perches on a clothesline in Potsoteni an Ashaninka indigenous community area in Peru s Junin region.


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The children four years ago as they prepared to leave their primary school St Saviour s in WestgateonSea in Kent From left Ellie Lewis Gabriel Tayla and Cameron.


Erol Incedal above a law student from south London was convicted last year of possession of a bombmaking manual but faced a retrial on the more serious charge of plotting a terrorist attack.


Kaziranga is also home to other breeding populations of mammals notable among them are tigers and elephants According to a 2008 census there are over 1200 elephants in the park.


Chris Meganck and Eric Roux of Scientology Belgium and Europe at the first session of the trial on Monday.


Catastrophic and unstoppable a great white shark off the coast in Mexico.


David Cameron said this year s negotiations would determine the date of the referendum and not the other way round.


Alex Goode is ready to take his chance as competition for an England place in World Cup year intensifies.


I wan na be your boyfriend punkloving couple outside CBGBs in 2006.


Many of you will have been saying for years that what the internet really lacks is a place for people to make their anger and bitterness known.


Schools are supposed to be inclusive but pressure from government to focus on testing and targets makes it difficult for this to happen in practice.


Pittsburgh Penguins Sidney Crosby scores against New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur.


Award season in Hollywood may be over but its now time to recognise the stars in social work in the UK.


Parvez Henry Gill who commissioned and paid for the project hopes the cross encourages more Christians to remain in Pakistan.


A dust plume stretched across the Mediterranean Sea from just west of the Nile Delta to just east of Kriti The dust plume extends hundreds of kilometres across the ocean mingling with clouds in the north Source points for this plume are not apparent in this image and skies over Egypt are largely clear This plume was likely whirled aloft by dust storms occurring over Egypt and Libya in the preceding days.


On pond watch a frog rests on its couch between water lilies.


The Jam chair a child s bucket chair and the Louis Ghost chair.


Club members at the University for the Creative Arts in Epsom work on drawings paintings and collage for the summer show.


An old photo of Che Guevara takes pride of place in a residence.


US cities spent more than 5bn on landfill fees in 2013 while major brands are losing out on 114bn in recycling revenue each year.


The Miss Jacaranda drag queen contest in Zimbabwe.


An advertisement for new luxury apartments in London s East End.


Download a printable version of this Christmas card.


Buckingham Palace to Marxists the very symbol of the ruling class employs staff on zerohours contracts.


Mixed reviews for Clare Balding s BT Sport talkshow have not deterred armchair fans.


Marisa Jorge a student at Liberty University in Virginia takes part in a straw poll.


Mother s appeal against an order to stop breastfeeding is being heard in the family court in Sydney on Friday.


Shauna Hoare s interview with Avon and Somerset police was shown to the jury.


Lil B and Tyler the Creator hiphop upstarts have turned the spotlight on lyrical homophobia.


Samesex marriage supporters wave a rainbow flag in front of the US supreme court.


Chris Patten the Catholic former chair of the BBC Trust said in an interview with the Guardian that church leaders had the right to criticise government policy.


Landmark a cyclist passes Richard Long s artwork Box Hill Road River in Surrey.


Last year Network Rail reported three worker fatalities 85 major injuries and 100 minor riddor incidents.


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Edward Gillespie managing director of Cheltenham announced major rebuilding work will take place at the track.


The Open iPlayer project aimed to offer the best of the BBC and commercial programming at the same online destination.


The cap currently on the well is not stopping all the oil from flowing into the sea.


Scrupulous precision Josh Hamilton and Sinead Matthews in Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn.


Indian youths hone their techniques in the concrete nets behind a stand at the Mecon Stadium in a quiet district of Ranchi.


Taxpayers may need to pour billions more into the bailed out banks before the government can start to sell its shares in them the National Audit Office warns In its second report on the cost of propping up the banking system the NAO notes that the stipulation for banks to hold more capital may mean extra government cash could be required to prop up Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group on top of the 65bn spent on buying their shares.


Roger Scruton says the modern way is to dance at rather than with each other.


Narendra Modi prepares to speak to supporters after his victory in India s elections.


The Louis Armstrong Stadium has sometimes cast a shadow on Andy Murray s career.


The report says there has been a rapid rise in the share of NHSfunded patients treated by private providers.


What should David Cameron know about cuts in your local area.


The idea for this image by Liz Orton came after Andrews described a slowly diminishing tower of boxes as a metaphor for the way he d taken back control of his life since he d got Parkinson s.


A health worker is decontaminated at a medical centre in Monrovia Liberia.


The New Jersey Hammerheads a club team that s sending some of its members to Cali Colombia to represent the United States at the 2015 Underwater Rugby World Championships.


I was so cocky and confident Snoop Dogg.


A boy swims with his sheep in a small lake at the Jordan Valley area southern Jordan.


Away From the Flock is another famous formaldehyde piece It was famously vandalised by another artist who poured black ink into the tank.


Sir Tom Courtenay who plays Corporal Jones.


Michael Gove s support signals a thawing of strained relations between the Department for Education and Ofsted.


CES attendees look at the Intel Infoscape interactive touchscreen display.


Song and dance Empire of the Sun s Nick Littlemore pulls the other one.


A judge is due to decide whether to authorise a fresh round of forced police evictions in NotreDamedesLandes.


Glenn Greenwald is surrounded by the media as he arrives for the Polk Awards luncheon in New York.


Henry Moore s Reclining Figure sculpture worth more than 3m stolen in December 2005.


Wild Thyme guesthouse in Palamartsa village.


Ian Bell hit 62 including eight boundaries in Warwickshire s first innings against Middlesex.


Reese Witherspoon in Atom Egoyan s Devil s Knot.


Arkoun placed Islamic texts in a historical context.


Exquisite doll Tai Wei Foo as Xiao Ling in The Blue Dragon by Robert Lepage at the Barbican.


Cargo trolleys parked on the tarmac at Cointrin Geneva s international airport Switzerland.


A statue of Cecil Rhodes on the facade of Oriel College Oxford.


Britain s Aljaz Bedene must wait until March to discover whether his appeal has been successful.


Brendan Rodgers can only stand and watch in the rain at Anfield as Liverpool slip out of the Champions League after the 11 draw against Basel.


The Sex and the City quartet with Kim Cattrall s character Samantha third from left.


2008 Free bananas with a sticker of David Miliband are given away to delegates at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.


The photograph that shocked France Nicolas Sarkozy carries Bruni s son Aurelien as they visit Petra in Jordan in 2008.


Daily fantasy leagues can help attract fans to games even when the result appears to be certain.


Ahmed in The Reluctant Fundamentalist It was the first time I read a book and thought I love something so much I m going to find out who s got the rights.


A statuestill street performer wears a surgical mask painted in requisite silver in Mexico City.


Kerboom A scene from the episode in which Alfred the dog scoffed Claude s lifetime supply of baked beans with terrible consequences No animals were harmed in the making of this episode.


A promotional leaflet is wedged between cracks in a lift in Debneys Park.


For the 2013 calendar I m going to start with the detail Can you see the white dots There are 365 lines of white dots that are lined up radially in the direction of the centre of the circle like clock hands Each line is a day and each dot represents 15 minutes of dark.


Former State of Origin star and senatorelect Glenn Lazarus battles the media scrum in Canberra on Thursday.


Just like that Our readers suggest how the eurozone debt crisis could be easily solved.


Maribou State will they turn your world upside down.


A highway entrance covered by water and debris in downtown Houston.


Uday Hussein son of the dead dictator Saddam Hussein feeds one of his lions His animals were among those rescued by Anthony This burnt photo was salvaged after a mob looted the house.


John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn after addressing the Labour party conference last month.


Gunning for E3 can Battlefield 3 beat Modern Warfare 3 at its own game.


Thirteenyearold Sarah Rojewski of Livonia Michigan gives her brother Ben 11 a mud shampoo.


Dan Lepard s treacle pecan caramels They re fingerlickin good.


Homeopathic remedy in Indianapolis backstage in 1975.


Sergio Aguero of Manchester City suffered knee ligament damage against Everton.


Richie McCaw hands off Robert Harley of Scotland during the Test at Murrayfield where the All Blacks won 2416.


Before the game City legends Tony Book Joe Corrigan and Mike Summerbee present flowers to Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish.


Tottenham s Luka Modric who will probably miss the Champions League game against Milan.


With China set to reach peak coal production quicker than expected coal investments look especially risky.


Fatty salty fish and chips paired with an acidic sauv blanc is a match made in arteryclogging heaven.


IMF managing director Christine Lagarde on carbon policy makers need to price it right tax it smart and do it now.


A rider negotiates a large hedge in a sidesaddle race the Diana s of the Chase Cup at Ingersby Old Hall in Leicesterhsire.


Prince Charles with the Queen It must be horrible to have a job that means waiting for your mum to die says John Bettley.


Caroline Goodall in Hotel Sorrento as expat author Meg.


Skaters in Oslo The Norwegian option would not be enhancing our sovereignty It is walking away from the top table and rendering ourselves powerless It s a policy of surrender rather than one of control.


Black bootleg trousers While her sisters tend to go for the skirt option every time Khloe Kardashian often works a trouser but only when it s worn with a stonking great platform A distinctly 90s look the bootcut and heel should have died a death long ago Instead it ended up in this collection.


Doing a Dizzee Lord Justice Leveson raps it up.


Iran used to be the 10th largest car and lorry market and is attracting attention from Peugeot Renault and General Motors.


Desert Golfing an endless series of holes a ridiculously compelling game experience.


Besancon France A Hapalemur Simus lemur called Sorja carries her onemonthold baby at Besancon Zoo.


Richard Hannon Jr is represented by La Napoule in the penultimate race on Wolverhampton s card.


Martin Kaymer won the US Open at Pinehurst in 2014 and feels he is wellprepared to defend his title.


An aerial view of Christopher Foster s burnedout country house in Shropshire.


England s Mike Gatting is bowled by Shane Warne s first ball during the first Test against Australia at Old Trafford.


Mr Average The median British man drives a Ford Fiesta.


Pablo Sanchez of Adelaide United is congratulated by team mate Sergio Cirio after scoring his teams second goal during round twentyseven of the Hyundai ALeague.


Everton signed Romelu Lukaku James McCarthy and Gareth Barry on transfer deadline day.


Hamming it up on Watch What Happens in April.


The first adder of the year emerges from hibernation at a location in London There are only two small colonies left in the Greater London area Both are secret.


Take aurally the elaborately packaged Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized.


Leader of the avant avantgarde Frederick II of HesseCassel painted by Johann Heinrich Tischbein liked by Dullaart.


Members of the Maldives cabinet on a practice dive.


Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic photographed in April 1972 Taken at the Royal Albert Hall early in my career this image has always seemed to me to epitomise the inexpressible ecstasy that music can induce in both the listener and performer CLIVE BARDAArenaPAL.


Richard s lightningbolt tramlinesAll photographs Emily Stein.


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An activist wears pictures of Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning during a demonstration against surveillance tactics in Berlin.


The gender pay gap for median gross hourly earnings excluding overtime.


Sami Khedira s goal for Germany against Brazil set Twitter aflame.


The Belgian headquarters of the Dutch bank ING in the centre of Brussels.


Ex number two is Mathew Horne Back in the day he was earning his crust as an Elvis impersonator on the Calais boozecruise circuit They danced til dawn on a deck that smelt of disinfectant.


Athens riot police fire tear gas at an antifascist protest calling for action against the neoNazi Golden Dawn party following a rapper s murder Photo Milos BicanskiGetty.


Atletico Madrid s head coach Diego Simeone could well be Manchester City s head coach Diego Simeone.


Creepy and claustrophobic but not coherent Richard E Grant and Laura Fraser in Cuckoo.


Clarke Carlisle is the former chairman Professional Footballers Association.


A child is vaccinated against polio in Peshawar Pakistan Photo Bilawal ArbabEPA.


Markets in Brazil have more than trebled in value since 1999 Photograpg Corbis.


Samaras also enlarged his fragile coalition with crossparty lawmakers who belonged to other proEuropean forces.


A HarleyDavidson motorcycle lost in last year s tsunami in Japan lies washed up on a Canadian island.


The river Lee s source at Leagrave Common north of Luton.


I am concerned because industry and agency officials are relying on a justification that isn t supported by past investigations research or data to promote uranium mining in the Grand Canyon region.


I sit on my porch and make rude comments to people who walk by Rich Hall.


David Gower loses the England captaincy after defeat to India at Lord s in 1986.


Fred Willard who was arrested in Hollywood earlier this week.


A wood sculptor works in Bethlehem Is there a statue for El Nino which is named after the baby Jesus.


Half a Man by Michael Morpurgo illustrated by Gemma O Callaghan A small thoughtful book about the legacy of conflict Badly injured when his ship was torpedoed Grandpa is physically disfigured and mentally scarred Young Michael dreads his visits he has been told not to ask questions or to stare at his damaged face and hands It is only when he visits Grandpa at his home on the Isles of Scilly that Michael gradually uncovers the longburied stories of the war and their traumatic legacy The mood is perfectly captured in O Callaghan s illustrations.


Why would you want to look like everyone else Adele.


The All Blacks with the Hilary Shield If the mighty All Blacks beat Ireland next weekend then their 2013 record will be played 14 won 14 and they will become the first team to go through a calendar year unbeaten.


David Miranda was arrested and held for nine hours at Heathrow airport under powers granted by the Terrorism Act.


Met office projections of the plume of ash rising from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano.


Conservative backbencher Dominic Raab s amendment would curb the ability of judges to block the deportation of foreign criminals.


Northern Uproar pictured in 1995 guitarist Jeff Fletcher singer and bassist Leon Meya guitarist Paul Kelly and drummer Keith Chadwick.


Nine West was one of many familiar UK high street retail chains in which Johannesson s group Baugur held a stake.


Marmalade sandwich semifreddo Paddington parfait.


Ryanair is to offer private charter service on its Boeing 737700 jets.


The girl Berneen grows to love the bear and he has always loved her But stories are never simple and when she is tested she makes a mistake Perhaps it is her fault perhaps it is his but something happens that changes the story.


San Andres Cholula Mexico A smoke cloud from the Popocatepetl volcano rises into the sky.


Japan has announced its intention to restart scientific whaling after suspending it for a year following an international court of justice ruling.


The Queen and Prince Philip on their wedding day in 1947.


Published in the Guardian on 21 November 1985 Click on the article to read in full.


ProTrump supporters gather at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles.


9 October 2010 Elizabeth Segovia holds her daughter Esperanza Ticona the first child of the trapped miner Ariel Ticona.


The flag wrapped coffin of a staff sergeant is carried by soldiers of the IDF Golani Brigade.


The Life and Times of Paddington Bear continues at the Museum of Reading until 4 July 2010.


BBC Radio 4 controller Gwyneth Williams said she would love to see more women presenting the Today programme.


Russell Norman s cucumber and basil martini recipe.


The NYPD s 34th Precinct tweeted this photo of the alligator on Thursday So this alligator was crossing 9th Ave in Inwood no really At 205 Str Cops took him to Animal Control.


Our experts advice will help you overcome the hurdles to becoming a charity chief exectuve.


It is believed Number 10 wants Hunt to be deeply muscular on the matter of junior doctors contracts.


Amalia Ulman s Excellences Perfections at Tate Modern until 12 June.


Barcelona s Lionel Messi clips the ball past Manuel Neuer to score the second of his goals in the 30 Champions League win over Bayern Munich.


Crowds Flocking to High Bridge once more.


Toiletlessness and its accompanying faecesrelated diseases is linked to a quarter of all child deaths.


A devotee from Jui Tui shrine runs through burning coals in Phuket The firewalking ritual is believed to drive out evil and impurity.


Caroline Lucas We need to hack the firstpastthepost system before we can change it.


The new Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal is ushered into his role by Sir Bobby Charlton.


Memento Maybe ditch those ugly tattoos the guy gives himself maybe he uses Instagram to post reminders instead and then his investigation goes viral.


Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has endorsed nonviolent popular protest over armed resistance according to insiders.


At heart I m just a frustrated meteorologist director Howard Davies.


Black Flag I like Black Flag but I ve never seen them live they re a bit old for that Got this Tshirt from eBay.


Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant in the ballet Push in 2005.


Facebook performed experiments on hundreds of thousands of users aimed at seeing whether it could affect their emotions.


Adam Johnson arrives at Bradford crown court on the final day of his trial.


Brandt Snedeker celebrates after birdying the eighth hole to heighten the pressure on Cabrera.


Matt Dawson posted images of his son Sami after being treated in Great Ormond Street hospital.


Box of delights for UK business or iron fist Prebudget talks are said to have been as rigorous as last year s eyewatering spending review.


A Scottish dental nurse holds the colour chart for false teeth dental examinations are free in Scotland and Northern Ireland.


Mercedes Nico Rosberg centre and Lewis Hamilton after qualifying first and second respectively in Abu Dhabi.


Tony Abbott and Andrew Forrest in Sydney for the official hand over of Creating Parity The Forrest Review.


The champions Leeds Rhinos are taking on Manly this Friday.


Peter Dutton wants more private sector involvement in primary care.


Sounds of the forest Yanomami tribesmen in Brazil.


Novak Djokovic has reached the final of the Australian Open.


Prime minister s questions has become far more rowdy and confrontational.


Joost 20 from September 2008 it didnt rescue the company in the UK.


Lisskulla Top 2499 Mango Skirt 55 Other Stories Mules 80 Aldo.


Left Speculative model of the interaction of VPg with eIF4G Right the bulky NS6 in the VPgNS6 fusion protein bumps against eIF4G and prevents VPg from getting seated properly in its binding site.


A Catalan supporter near the parliament buildings in Edinburgh The map shows greater Catalonia including other Catalanspeaking areas.


Trevor Phillips is making a speech to the Oxford Media Convention on Wednesday.


A dog tries to hitch a lift as two men row down a flooded street in Charleston.


Soldiers patrol in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after last Friday s attacks.


My favourite colour film at the moment is Kodak Ektar 100 which just has wonderful vivid colours like these.


Brighton manager Sami Hyypia cuts a dejected figure after his side s defeat at the hands of Millwall.


Steven Finn and his England teammates enjoy the dismissal of Australia s Adam Voges on day two of the third Ashes Test match at Edgbaston.


A photograph by Dr Donald Stewart comparing Arapaima species.


Gillian Guy People with strong claims are being defeated by high costs.


Manchester United s purchase of Angel di Maria contributed to them spending almost 140m on new players this summer.


Harry proves he s just one of the kids as he sits with pupils at Halfmoon Bay school on Stewart Island on Monday 11 May Local Jill Cox said the royal visit really put our little island on the world map.


Supporters line the streets outside MiamiDade College before the Democratic presidential debate.


Ken Livingstone who beat Oona King to the Labour nomination for London mayor in a twohorse race lost the mayoralty to Boris Johnson in 2008.


Philip Hammond shadow chief secretary to the treasury.


Undercover hero the original Green Turtle.


Image montage Guardiancouk using images from iStockphoto.


The Northern Ireland finance minister Simon Hamilton says the forthcoming review will provide an opportunity to transform Ulster Bank.


Adapting with the times Bassekou Kouyate.


White pelicans gather in blind lagoon in Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge east of New Orleans The refuge was established in 1990 and its 23000 acres of fresh and brackish marshes all within the city limits of New Orleans make it the nation s largest urban wildlife refuge.


Kolkata India A girl offers a floral tribute for the victims of the Paris terror attacks at an event organised by the French Embassy.


In the 20th minute Gonzalo Higuain misses a plum chance for Argentina He s played clean through by a terrible attempt at a header back to the keeper from Toni Kroos However Higuain shanks his effort horribly wide.


Heavy snow falls on rescue workers at a devastated factory area in Sendai.


It s been 10 years since we first met Bella Edward and Jacob What are some of your favourite Twilight quotes.


The Adoration of the Shepherds circa 1640 by Guido Reni.


MPs have cleared the way for home owners to borrow up to 10000 to insulate their properties.


King s Place the headquarters of the Guardian and Observer will play host to local government senior managers for our latest Local Government Leaders Quarterly in February 2013.


Britain s digital champion Martha Lane Fox.


Starter homes initiative the prime minister is targeting firsttime buyers under the age of 40.


A Protein World advert displayed at a London Underground station More than 44000 people have signed a petition to have the posters removed.


The victim of the shooting a man in his 50s is believed to be a pizza delivery man named Dan Murray.


The PreRaphaelites and Italy Oxford Dante Gabriel Rossetti s sumptuous portrait of a redhead Monna Vanna is part of The PreRaphaelites and Italy exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum from 16 September until 5 December.


Cornish produce including St Endellion Brie Ginsters pasty Roddas clotted cream and Cornish sardines.


Nicole Cooke winning gold in the women s road race at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.


Jonathan Edwards right says If you re going to have an impact on young people s lives you have to get it right in school.


Gerard Butler and director Darren Aronofsky hold Natalie Portman s award for best leading actress for her role in Black Swan.


An unidentified sponge Echo is a seamount that is also known as Endeavour Bank whose summit is formed of a large plateau measuring 350km sq located between 230350m depth with its sides dropping up to 3800m into the deep seas.


WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds up a copy of the Guardian as he addreses media in the grounds of Ellingham Hall in Norfolk.


Kingsley Amis who once opined If you ca nt annoy somebody there s little point in writing.


Nightmarish an adaptation of Frank Kafka s Metamorphosis at the Royal Opera House London.


Phil Neville decided to leave Everton in the summer after David Moyes told him firstteam opportunities would be limited.


Sam Burgess has made just 17 appearances for Bath since his switch from rugby union but will make his Test debut on Saturday.


Jan Brykczynski Poland Series title Arnes The Warsawbased photographer spent months documenting the relationship between the small community and their natural surroundings.


When did it take root this bizarre idea that the fantastically complex apparatus of the state is analogous to a shop Illustration by Aude Van Ryn.


Fame And Glory ridden by jockey Jamie Spencer lands the Gold Cup on day three of Royal Ascot.


The Gina Fratini dress worn by Taylor for her second wedding to Richard Burton His nylon poloneck was not part of the auction.


Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey in the film adaptation of EL James s Fifty Shades of Grey 43 of survey respondents admitted reading erotica.


Villain Olivier Giroud headbutts QPR s Nedum Onuoha earning a red card and the displeasure of his manager.


Chrissie Wellington says she is going to take a break for a year or two from triathlon.


Southampton are holding out for 30m for Morgan Schneiderlin but Manchester United hope to sign the midfielder for 25m.


Inflation is now an intergenerational issue.


A stretch Ashley Page s Subterrain part of a recent Rambert Mixed Bill at Sadler s Wells London.


The former secretary of state Hillary Clinton testifies before the Senate foreign relations committee about the Benghazi attack in January 2014.


Philip Hammond the foreign secretary told MPs the UN was making progress on financial sanctions against Islamic State.


Brett Emerton with the Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou.


John Whittingdale is to be interviewed at the Edinburgh TV festival.


Mathew McConaughey open shirted in True Detective.


The New Zealand captain Richie McCaw will reach 148 caps in the Rugby World Cup final after seeing off a spirited South Africa challenge.


I need lots of time on my own but blogging and Twitter feed my need for chat and inanity Jenn Ashworth s desktop.


British Gas is to beef up its customer service.


The sun lights up a clearing beneath towering trees.


Security support Straight Outta Compton.


432 Park Avenue in New York City casting a significant and inescapable shadow over the city.


Route taken by bike 15512 between 8am and 930pm Graphic Finbarr Sheehy for the Guardian.


Kim Jongun visits the October 8 factory.


Patients contracted the illness after being given spinal injections of the steroid methylprednisolone acetate.


Many fans looked for ways around paying for the Floyd Mayweather v Manny Pacquiao fight.


The panel of I m Sorry I Have nt A Clue with Richard Thomspon after their live performance.


Leonardo Senatore goes up in the lineout.


Michael Volle Bryan Hymel and assorted freelance dancers in Royal Opera s Les Vepres siciliennes.


Lori Singer and Kevin Bacon hit the prom in Footloose.


Lady Altmann with David Cameron last year.


Trading Down Wiltshire An 18ft woodfloored beamstriped sitting room makes this cottage in the Wiltshire village of Rode seem larger than the petite facade suggests It s full of smartly groomed character a stone chimney breast and hearth dominating the living room exposed stone walls in the master bedroom and dramatic beams and trusses in the loft room which is large and light enough for an extra bed It s a swift commute to Bath and the village shops lie outside the front door A minute back yard is the weakness 217500 Winkworthcouk 01225 829000.


Nigel Farage said people in the west had a responsibility to help Syrians who were in fear of their lives.


Tony Abbott at the service in Yirrkala on Thursday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the start of the first world war.


Photographer Katherine Williams won the highly commended award for Barry Alkirra Hall A House in Carrington.


Sarah Taylor celebrates after hitting the winning runs for England in the World T20 semifinal against South Africa.


The Trek Domane 40 Disc relaxing by a wall.


Jenna Whittingham is a 25yearold beauty salon owner from Lancashire who has never been away from home for more than a week Says My personality and character is once seen never forgotten.


Golden time Tilda Swinton and students collect honey from Andrew Abrahams s bee hives.


Some providers don t even know who is living in some of their properties.


A tray of repeat prescriptions We are seeing a rise in workload and paperwork.


A checkpoint at the entrance to a hotel in Kampala after Uganda bolstered security at key locations following threats of more attacks from members of alShabaab.


2 September 2010 Workers operate the Xtrata 950 drill digging the Plan A escape shaft for the 33 miners trapped underground.


Farewell any sense of permanence or community longterm engagement or planning for the future.


Masked employees from the Telefonica phone company in Barcelona protest against austerity measures The hoods read I am a profitable person.


Nicola Sturgeon and Michelle Thomson in April.


Karen Carney Birmingham City Age 23 Pacey tricky and with an eye for goal Carney began her career with Birmingham making her senior debut at just 14 Experienced transAtlantic life with Chicago Red Stars and also had a spell at Arsenal before returning to her native west midlands.


Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are considered the ringleaders of a 2005 operation to smuggle 82kg of heroin from Bali into Australia.


Kim Jongun and his wife Ri Solju pose with members of the army State media images such as this are obsessively monitored by researchers for clues.


Sublime to the ridiculous Caroline Flack and Olly Murs.


Mike Deng was killed during Pi Delta Psi fraternity s glass ceiling initiation ritual in the Pocono mountains in December 2013.


Concrete blocks and security barriers outside the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sana a.


A protest at Westminster on Monday afternoon calling for Yarl s Wood to be shut down.


Voulez vous Christina Aguilera Mya P nk and Lil Kim perform Lady Marmalade during the 44th Grammy awards simultaneously breaking several CBS codes at once.


The Labrang Monastery in Gansu province northwest China where a Tibetan man set himself on fire.


John Cage preparing a piano in the mid60s At the Barbican exhibition Disklavier pianos are placed around the gallery each playing one of Cage s compositions.


A stork stands on a roof close to a blooming magnolia tree in Strasbourg eastern France.


Doubly sitespecific Andrew Lancel as Brian Clough and Tony Bell as Peter Taylor in The Damned United at West Yorkshire Playhouse.


The fact that Obama has only really engaged the continent in these frank terms towards the end of his time in office on what is clearly a farewell tour is a source of regret.


Miriam OReilly the former Countryfile presenter who has won an agediscrimination tribunal against the BBC.


Bradley Wiggins said his main priority would remain the time trial but has been training with the team squad.


Yuki Ogimi of Japan heads the ball towards goal.


Maggie Lee is a befriender visiting Pat Little who is in her 80s and has had a stroke.


Flood victims from Canning Town in London being fed by a soup kitchen from Watford.


Julian Assange told students at Cambridge that the internet is the greatest spying machine the world has ever seen.


Climate Action Tracker analysis of climate pledges to the UN.


Reverend Rosie Harper stands in the doorway of the now unused Bishops Noes voting lobby before speaking to the General Synod.


The AFL says there s no doubt Josh Jenkins s goal was legitimate.


Sandra Arroyo Salgado at the press conference announcing the report s findings.


Students may have to contribute more to make up for a shortfall in income for universities one vicechancellor has warned.


LP Steamers Crab House on Fort Avenue in South Baltimore s Locust Point is a nononsense neighbourhood diner that serves the famous steamed blue crabs of Chesapeake Bay and cold beer.


The nightmare in prospect is of an economy which does stagger back to life but continues to fail to provide any gains for its workers.


Net gains a David Beckham scoop helped boost News of the World sales.


The Had Rin beach in Koh Phangan Thailand.


Willy Caballero replaced Joe Hart at Juventus and may be required to start for Manchester City against Southampton.


Under observation responsibility for public health will move from the NHS to councils in April but how will the new setup fare.


An ethnic Albanian refugee pushes his grandmother across the Kosovan border into Albania in 1999.


Denise Gough in Blondie by Hayley Squires part of Theatre Uncut at the Young Vic.


Isis fighters stand guard at a seized checkpoint in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.


Shami Chakrabarti the gamekeeperturnedpoacher of the civil liberties movement.


Michael Gove has clashed with the information commissioner over free schools.


ProRussian rebels ride on a tank in the town of Krasnodon eastern Ukraine.


Julius Malema above was once considered ANC s possible future leader by president Jacob Zuma but become his political nemesis.


Iain Duncan Smith wants to change the measure of poverty from income alone.


Leicester s Welford Road will not be used as a venue for the 2015 World Cup with the nearby football stadium preferred instead.


Cars destroyed by a bomb outside the Green Dome mosque on 17 June 17 in an attack reportedly claimed by Isis.


Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport is eerily quiet after most flights in and out of the UK were grounded.


Dragonflies rest on a plant in the Una river in Kostajnica Croatia.


Dame Edna Everage celebrates Australia Day at Australia House in London.


Germaine Greer in 1982 six years after writing 30000 words in The Long Letter to a Short Love or to Martin Amis.


If you are registered in Brighton Pavilion vote for Caroline Lucas to ensure that there is at least one Green voice in parliament.


There is a political rupture in this country Bernie is giving voice to a yearning that is out there Sanders in New Hampshire this week.


The Care Act replaces the legal patchwork of legislation that has been with us since the founding of the welfare state.


Man Booker prize for fiction judges from left Ellah Wakatama Allfrey John Burnside Michael Wood Frances Osborne and Sam Leith Two of the shortlisted novelists are British.


As secretary of the Gauri Mahila community forest user group in the Khata corridor of the Terai Arc Devi helps other women to be good stewards of the land I do not get money for doing this but it gives me satisfaction she says I know people in my village appreciate it.


The Harmoni allegations come amid a rise in the number of NHS contracts being put out to competitive bidding under the Health and Social Care Act.


Fractals have structures that are selfsimilar over many scales the same pattern being repeated over and over.


Sergeant Richard Vernon who was the first police officer to help one of two boys attacked by brothers in Edlington.


Prince Philip photographed in November 2007.


An IWM employee inspects the damage intended says the museum as a reminder of the impact of modern war on civilians.


Javier Mascherano Being a centreback for Barca is not like being a centreback for any other team.


Finland 11 Georgia Teemu Pukki and Alexander Ring right of Finland look on as George s David Tasrgamadze lays the ball back down the line Kashia opened the scoring for the visitors just before the hour mark but only held the lead for three minutes before Hamalainen notched for Finland.


League One giantkillers Bradford City have been handed a home tie against Reading in the sixth round of the FA Cup.


Chinese protesters reach a standoff with riot police in Zengcheng near Guangzhou The clashes highlight the authorities struggle to control social frustrations.


Marks Spencer is offering a 100 gift card for those who move to its bank using a switching service.


A typical pathway through Byadbo wilderness on the Bundian Way.


Where I Lived and What I Lived For There by Henry David Thoreau Designer David Pearson There s a related issue with this cover which is based on the title page of an old Penguin illustrated edition of Thoreau It s a ridiculously introverted joke the highly obscure version of the Penguin logo and the publisher address only makes sense if you re aware of the original book which of course nobody is I remember vigorous arguments about whether the Penguin should be coloured blue or black.


Ghostly blisstronica from pop s outer limits Airbird.


Double parked the New York taxicab embedded in NYC Downlow.


Students at the H Sophie Newcomb College New Orleans circa 1929.


This poster released by the FBI shows one of two missing NC Wyeth paintings.


Anthony Browne s version of the Goldilocks story is a little less frightening than the original.


Offensive lineman Anthony Davis centre of Rutgers University went at No11 to the San Francisco 49ers.


Lisa Randall professor of theoretical physics at Harvard University.


Fenerbahce will not be able to take part in next season s Champions League.


Deaths attributable to outdoor air pollution Deaths per 1000 capita per year Map by WHO.


Jeremy Browne s views may seem deeply unappealing to most potential Lib Dem voters.


Students attend a rally at the Chinese University of Hong Kong campus.


Owen Labrie holds his arms over his head on Wednesday as he describes how he disrobed a female classmate who is accusing him of rape.


Paris FranceForensic police officers work outside a building in the StDenis where special forces raided an apartment the day before.


Joyous openness Irene Schweizer and Pierre Favre.


Jim O Neill will have special responsibility for driving forward devolution to cities outside London in his new role.


Apple s Tim Cook has promised new product categories for over a year and confirmed new things were still on track in January.


Kayus Bankole Graham Hastings and Alloysious Massaquoi of Young Fathers.


Mark Warburton salutes the fans as Brentford secure their Championship playoff place but the manager will be leaving this summer after a disagreement with the club s owner.


A dancing team passes through Times Square during the 83rd Macy s Thanksgiving day parade in New York.


Poppies grow in a Flanders field in Passchendaele Belgium as dawn breaks on the centenary of the first world war.


Floral tributes to those who died in antigovernment protests in Kiev in February.


Northern Lights in Littondale Yorkshire Dales.


A man is pulled out alive from the capsized ship by divers and rescuers on Tuesday.


Margaret Atwood celebrates her 75th birthday in November.


Pippa Funnell on Supreme Rock at the 2003 Badminton Horse Trials.


Beaten to the punch By 2012 I found I was drawing less and less in my sketchbooks so I started this one with the plan to draw one page a day Unfortunately the book lasted only a few months These days I m working on three or four books at a time with tight deadlines and two kids It s a lot to keep up withIllustration Jeffrey Brown.


Lance Armstrong won seven Tour de France titles but has admitted doping in all of them.


Newt Gingrich speaking to reporters earlier this year His campaign to win the Republican presidential nomination received a severe blow 9 June 2011 when his team resigned en masse.


Real love Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen Frans Hals has a knack for simulating consciousness.


The light rail train in Jerusalem means many of the city s divided residents have to at least tolerate each other for a short journey.


The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp A restored version of the Powell and Pressburger classic from 1943 with Roger Livesey as the professional soldier whose career from dashing Boer war blade to second world war old buffer is chronicled with characteristic brilliance Anton Walbrook and Deborah Kerr provide superb support.


WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell has said the NSA Prism revelations are a game changer when it comes to online privacy.


Heather burning on a grouse moor above Teesdale North Pennines County Durham Burning the heather encourages new growth upon which the grouse feed but is harmful to the native wildlife.


Zlute lazne has lots of facilities and a great location next to the Vltava river.


The office of Dr Farid Fata in Oak Park Michigan.


Trams near Porta Maggiore The underground basilica was discovered 100 years ago during construction of a railway line.


Catherine ParryWingfield chair of the Turner s House Trust.


Starfish along the coastline of British Columbia A team of internationally renowned photographers has released a series of stunning images captured during its rapid assessment visual expedition to British Columbia s Great Bear rainforest over the summer Led by the International League of Conservation Photographers and conservation organisation Pacific Wild they hope their work will highlight the species and habitats that are under threat from a proposed oil pipeline.


Lord Pearson It is very regrettable that something like this should happen.


London UK Passengers sit on a train at Clapham Junction station Commuters returning to work after the Christmas break faced fare rises of up to 11.


Adam Johnson has pleaded guilty to one count of sexual activity with a child and one count of grooming.


The Secret Teacher would like to eat lunch with a colleague not at a desk or even during a walk to the loo.


A male red deer with antlers covered in bracken barks in London s Richmond Park Over 600 red and fallow deer roam in the largest of London s Royal Parks and have their numbers managed in an annual cull each November and February.


Vivendi chief executive JeanBernard Levy.


Net lending was down 277bn at Lloyds but up 38bn at Barclays.


SouthendonSea Members of the public pack onto the beach as much of Britain is bathed in sunshine.


A family s home is their castle most middleclass families get their wealth from owning homes Incomes and home ownership are both rising while household debt is rising.


Terry Virts tweeted this image of a Vulcan hand salute from orbit as a tribute to actor Leonard Nimoy who died on 27 February 2015.


Yotam Ottolenghi s blackcurrant sorbet simple and smooth Food styling Nico Ghirlando.


Astonishing Tessa Farmer s sculptural tribute to The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.


Open doors Alan Ross and Johnny Smith sit outside the flat at Dunsyre House Photo Tom Allanguardiancouk.


A firefighter carries the body of an infant who died in a landslide in the Morro de Borel area of Rio de Janeiro.


Most of the children in this Ugandan school pictured in 2005 will complete their primary education in a class of more than a hundred pupils.


Red shirt supporters hold weapons taken from security guards at Parliament House.


In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart Douglas Hodge in Inadmissible Evidence at the Donmar Warehouse.


Lionel Messi is set to stay at Barcelona after agreeing terms over a contract extension.


Paul Lambert s reign as Aston Villa manager may be nearing its end with the club about to be sold.


May B by Compagnie Maguy Marin at Enniskillen s Happy Days festival.


Tom Harris spoke too soon of Labour s extinction.


Canberra Australia Animal welfare officers put out an urgent appeal for shearers after finding this sheep with wool so overgrown its life was in danger The very woolly merino sheep was spotted wandering on its own near Mulligan Flats a grassy woodland just outside the capital by bushwalkers who alerted local RSPCA officers.


She proceeds to canvas opinion from film composer Patrick Doyle and Christopher Lee.


Take a step back and try to see the story as someone coming to it fresh would What questions would they ask.


Residents walk through the charred streets of Sange the village hit by the fireball from the tanker explosion.


Mihnea Gligor s entry is like a red rag to a bull.


Robert Berry who collapsed at the finish of the London marathon 2014.


David Cameron is considering a more flexible approach to reach a new deal for Britain in Europe.


Wayne Rooney returns for United at the Ullevaal Stadium.


Lonesome George at the Fausto Llerena breeding centre.


David Gallop s uncomfortable appearance at a press conference in Sydney on Tuesday did little to appease fans unhappy with FFA.


Family and friends of Becky Watts wore Tshirts as a memorial to the dead teenager as they arrived for the sentencing of her killers.


Clarice Greenup aunt of Evelyn Greenup is comforted by Raymond Robinson and Marg Campbell prior to a march on NSW Parliament House in Sydney November 2013.


A geneticallymodified AquAdvantage salmon top next to a control salmon of the same age.


BP platform in the North Sea Oil Gas UK warned it would be hard to improve production this year following oil price crash.


West Everton youth orchestra in action Pic by Mark McNultyLiverpool Philharmonic.


What are they teaching them there Halifax Nova Scotia.


The Rolling Stones onstage in Hyde Park 5 July 1969 with Marianne Faithfull and the World in Action camera crew visible behind the photographers to the left.


British rapper Kano performing at the O2 Wireless Festival 2008.


Royal Park Primary School building in Hyde Park which resdents want to use as a community resource.


An Omaniundu reed frog Conservationists have announced they have found two species of African frog and a Mexican salamander that had been thought to be extinct.


Joseph Mandrowitz just before he went into the camp.


Could Liverpool tempt Isco to Merseyside.


Jurgen Klopp the Liverpool manager left says of Dejan Lovren right With Dejan there will be absolutely no problem during my time here he s looked strong.


Le Figaro s front page on the Charlie Hebdo attack.


Adrian Peterson has been suspended indefinitely from all team activities amid his child abuse case.


George Barris pictured in 1966 with the Batmobile.


The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education has called for a volumetric tax on alcohol and changes to the rules about advertising alcohol.


A UN peacekeeper patrols in a street in Abidjan Ivory Coast.


New York Democrat Anthony Weiner had at first claimed the photos had been obtained and sent without his knowledge.


Ahmed Chalabi then head of the Iraqi National Congress waiting for a meeting to recommence in Baghdad in September 2004.


Former Republican senator and 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum not yet a declared candidate for president in 2016 speaks to another crowd.


Get them in Amy Poehler as Regina George s mum in Mean Girls.


A woman hugs her child wrapped in a thermal blanket as migrants and asylum seekers arrive to Lesbos island after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey.


Andrew Lansley who was the architect of the Tories NHS reforms.


A man on a scooter feeds monkeys on the outskirts of Jammu India.


Cruise liner Costa Magnifica sails in St Mark s basin at the end of the Grand Canal in Venice.


Surveys have estimated that there is a group of 240 koalas in the vicinity of the development.


Murray starts to find his feet at the start of the second set but still finds himself running all over the court as the opening games go with serve.


Carson City sheriff s deputies comfort each other outside the scene of the fatal shooting.


John Birt still the BBC s presiding spirit.


Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has reset the hierarchy of writing.


Nick Kroll Jordan Peele and KeeganMichael Key.


Carlos Acosta in rehearsals for Derrumbe part of Cubania.


Teaching your child to cook before they leave for university will help them cope living away from home.


Lord Browne it was impossible to be an out gay man when I was at university.


Farewell Frank After 609 Premier League appearances for West Ham United Chelsea and Manchester City Frank Lampard is off to play in the MLS for New York City FC The midfielder signed off in style with a typical goal rifling home James Milner s cutback from ten yards out to help Man City beat Southampton 20.


A climate change protester plays his guitar en route to Blackheath.


Lewis Hamilton took victory in the Bahrain GP.


Distinctive rings around trees left by an oil spill are seen along the Yellowstone river in 2011.


Afghanistan s Badakhshan province near the border with Tajikistan Deadly avalanches are common in the area in winter.


Local boys paint their bodies for money.


Transport for London has become the latest employer to ban Facebook after concerns that staff spend too much time on the website.


James Watt at Brewdog s cavernous new brewery in Aberdeenshire.


Mark Thomas in Cuckooed at the Edinburgh festival.


Matt Pugh wooden sculptures25 mattpughcouk.


People are evacuated by law enforcement from the Inland Regional Center the scene of a fatal mass shooting in San Bernardino California.


Keryn Seal leaps over a Spanish defender at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.


Jakub Blaszczykowski 27 Wide midfielder Interested clubs Liverpool Brendan Rodgers is believed to be a fan of the Poland captain who joined Dortmund in 2007 from Wisla Krakow and has said What clubs in the world are better than Dortmund Not many.


Wallingford Oxfordshire It has that Trumpton feel.


An investigator collects a blood sample The agreement covers major crimes such as murder rape and terrorism.


Sir Christopher Wren on the March 1981 50 note.


Joanna Lumley photographed at the Natural History Museum in London for the Observer Ethical Awards 2013 where she was named national campaigner of the year.


Farmer Alejandro Cruz measures the pH of the Black river which is turning increasingly red due to acidic iron oxide deposits An unexpected sideeffect of the glacial retreat is the acidification of the meltwater as the withdrawing ice exposes metalrich rocks to the air for the first time in tens of thousands or even millions of years.


Admire Rakti during trackwork ahead of the Melbourne Cup.