Chipping Norton School s laser gun lock and learn idea for teaching maths won them first place in the secondary category of The School We d Like competition.


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Comfrey rust is a fungal disease and hard to get rid of.


An image grab taken from Jordanian TV said to show flames erupting from a building hit by an air strike against Isis.


In 2016 the monthly monetary policy committee meeting will move to eight sessions a year The change was recommended by Kevin Warsh a former governor of the US Federal Reserve The aim being to improve decision making and make the Bank more able to explain why rates have been kept on hold raised or lowered The last time the Bank raised rates was 2007.


Gutierrez has three months left on his contract and can now concentrate on playing for his Newcastle future.


In 1934 Pierre Menard described a project as merely astonishing to write word for word line for line Cervantes s Don Quixote Pictured Don Quixote and Sancho Panza by Honore Daumier.


Designer Joe Farris crosses biker with blanket in this creation for the Project Runway final.


Liverpool s document of unacceptable wordsphrases.


Antiquities shouldn t be bought and sold in private collections Mark Altaweel examines objects from the Institute of Archaeology s collections in London.


Gloucester s Eliota FuimaonoSapolu is tackled by Chris Wyles during the Premiership defeat to Saracens at Kingsholm.


Shawn Tyson the 16yearold accused of killing British friends James Cooper and James Kouzaris.


Tottenham Hotspur s Gylfi Sigurdsson left scores against Norwich City in the Premier League at White Hart Lane.


Borussia Dortmund s Mario Gotze will face Bayern Munich his future team in the Champions League final at Wembley.


Teacher Azizullah Royesh has faced death threats in his bid to provide the young people of Afghanistan with an education amid war and poverty.


Tom Watson MP placed under surveillance by News International.


Political prisoner Truong Van Suong died after spending more than 30 years in detention in Vietnam.


Jerusalem Jewish priests known as cohanim cover their heads and faces with their talit during a blessing for the Jewish people at the Wailing Wall.


Xinran already knew the plight that befell many girl babies in rural China Girl babies do nt count the older woman had told me The officials do nt give us any extra land when a girl is born so girls will starve to death anyway.


A frame grab taken from footage made available and posted by Jordi Mir shows hooded gunmen aiming Kalashnikov rifles towards a police officer before shooting him dead.


Deleted what criteria does Apple use in deciding whether to autodelete emails.


Ireland s shariacompliant financial regulations could make Dublin a centre of excellence for Islamic finance says the taoiseach Enda Kenny above.


Green ShopHere a man is visible in the shadows of a shop while a boy waits outside The road reflected in the window separates the two Different elements emerge as the image is viewed creating a sense of time and distance Nick Lill s exhibition comprising these photographs and many more taken in Africa London and Paris opens at Blackall Studios in London on 15 June.


David Hockney photographed at his Los Angeles home and studio by Steve Schofield for the Observer New Review.


Djanogly City Academy in Nottingham New head Dave Hooker said Being appropriately dressed whether for school or work is a lesson that will benefit all our students throughout their lives.


Belinda O Hooley Heidi Tidow by the source of the hum.


A man finds information about the Dalai Lama on Google China The search engine s claims of a Chineseoriginated cyber attack have sparked the current war of words between Washington and Beijing.


Iain Duncan Smith the work and pensions secretary.


Steve Harmison left with Andrew Flintoff showing off the Ashes trophy they won with England in 2009.


Buyers would receive a discount of at least 5 on the market price of the Lloyds Bank shares at the time of sale.


Politically I vote against my own selfinterest at every election Matt Damon.


Here s Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro smiling with their trophy That bleached hair and beard combo is pretty outthere.


Halifax chief executive James Crosby and his deputy Peter Burt at the launch of the Halifax and Bank of Scotland merger in 2001.


Manchester United s search for a new manager is likely to involve more analysis than did the appointment of David Moyes.


Red Hot Chili Peppers Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show.


Excerpt from Manchester Guardian editorial on 31 July 1914 The Nation s Danger.


People remove an electric post from the road in Daanbantayen on the northernmost tip of Cebu in the central Philippines.


Schwarzer turns over an effort from Suarez late on.


Are you listening comfortably Inside the Listening Project s booth.


A small crowd listening to a sound system at Victoria Park London 1980.


August 21 2008 Japan s softball team hoist their pitcher aloft after beating the USA in the final.


The 10 US states with the highest diabetes rates are all in the south with Mississippi leading the way.


Nepalese military load aid supplies onto an Indian helicopter in Gorkha.


Exposure to the Daily Mail could lead to all sorts of erratic behaviours.


Peter Horne scores the first try for Scotland.


Backstreet driver a couple on a Vespa in Naples and the Capodimonte museum home to one of the world s most underrated art collections.


Vince Cable said the Tories were hostile towards immigrants and people on benefits and disapproved of a long list of other groups.


A spitfire lands after performing in a display flight.


Alcides Escobar makes the play as the Royals trounce the Blue Jays.


Manchester United s manager Sir Alex Ferguson plans to rest his entire first team for their FA Cup match against Crawley.


The prosecutor in Malaysia said Eleanor Hawkins and the three other accused had caused annoyance to many Malaysians by stripping on Mount Kinabalu.


Kyle Chandler and Ben Mendelsohn in Bloodline.


Editor s pick a sequin Tshirt dress is the comfy antidote to the fitted dresses that dominate party season Bonus points for dreamy mermaid greenDress 80 thewhitepeppercom.


The pandas all aged two get used to their new home.


191819 French veterans of the 18701871 FrancoPrussian War join Canadian soldiers in the liberated city of Denain France.


Something must be happening in the Royal Enclosure as the smart phones and cameras come out.


Shipbuilders at Govan on the Clyde take a break from working on the Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan in 2010.


I think the crowd have been winding him up Brian.


A Burmese python is held at an event staged by the Florida fish and wildlife conservation commission in 2013.


The Southbank Centre revamp proposals by architects Feilden Clegg Bradley include a floating glass pavilion.


Liberal senator Cory Bernardi mistakenly attributed to Voltaire a quote which has been sourced to a convicted neoNazi Kevin Strom.


Tasteless matter as plastic as its wrapping.


Each new bon mot seemed terribly sad Claire Price and Jasper Britton in a British production of Noel Coward s Private Lives.


Siegfried Sassoon everyone can now read his manuscripts and poems online.


Helen Storey sits by Field of Jeans exhibition in London.


The nose ring The fabulous bleach job The nipples Liz s early punk years suggest that if she hadn t decided to monetise those assets she could have been a bona fide style icon Also love that she s got a St Tropez tan even then.


Suprisingly warm temperatures at the Sochi Winter Olympics have softened snow and wreaked havoc.


A heavy defeat at City in which they ve been comprehensively outplayed will hurt for some time Final score Manchester City 41 Manchester United.


Models present creations at Kanye West s Yeezy Season 3 Collection presentation.


Rhydderch Wilson An empty shop in Swansea s High Street has been transformed into a vibrant work of art.


Be warned Chris Haughton s marvellous A Bit Lost about a little owl searching for his mummy may bring a lump to your throat.


The chancellor George Osborne has found that curing the deepseated structural problems of the economy is harder than it looks.


A man looks down on an ecological park showcasing Amazonian foliage in Belem.


Indonesia s K9 squad checks the polling station where Joko Widodo will cast his vote in Jakarta on Wednesday.


MRSA bacteria magnified 9560times by a scanning electron micrograph.


Polished leather saddles with fine decorative carvings are racked up at the door of the Dollar Pawn Shop for about 500 apiece They are popular with cowboys and those still widely referred to in Arizona as the Indians.


Cherry Blossoms along TestugakunoMichi in Northern Higashiyama Kyoto.


In this production Polunin plays the hero Franz a simple country boy who falls in love with the dancing doll.


On the podium the rightwing Trygghetspartiet.


Aya Miyama celebrates her team s second goal against England.


Batman Arkham City Harley Quinn looks set to play a vital role in Rocksteady s sequel.


John Strong special agent in charge of the FBI in North Carolina addresses a press conference at the Wake Forest Town Hall.


Sara Brassfield formerly a student at the Art Institute of Portland.


Top scorer outside the Boleyn Tavern serving a West Ham fan on match day.


A new and authoritative report warns that the whole of the NHS is heading for trouble and no party has begun to address the NHS funding gap.


Steven Gerrard applauds the travelling fans after last month s raindelayed 11 draw in Poland his 99th appearance for England.


Adventures in 3D scene from Monsters Vs Aliens.


Urban growth was cited as the reason behind ban on nudity at Campbells Cove in the Melbourne s west.


Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta casts his vote in the 2013 Kenyan election.


Spurs Hugo Lloris and Manchester United s Ashley Young.


Del Kathryn Barton s fivepanel work at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery s space.


Melbourne AustraliaSpectators play with a ball during the second Test between Australia and West Indies.


Richard Bowler arrives at Canterbury crown court in Kent.


Business disinterest Jason Williamson right with bandmate Andrew Fearn.


Former MP Louise Mensch spoke to Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight about her facelift saying that when the Guardian asked her about it it was trivialising her.


Sepp Blatter the Fifa president has promised to lay down his mandate at a Fifa congress in December.


Yotam Ottolenghi s beef stew with pale ale juniper and prunes A warming dish.


Massachusetts Institute of Technology neuroscientists identified the cells where memory traces are stored in the mouse hippocampus.


The mood at Disney is cheerful after betterthanexpected revenue from its cablenetwork division.


Hamilton s final lap put him on the front row on the circuit where he won last year.


Russian President Vladimir Putin has described in a forthcoming documentary how he ordered the annexation of Crimea.


A man has reportedly stolen a Seven Network news car to escape police after a siege on the Sunshine Coast.


Prime minister David Cameron says he feels at his most anonymous when he s out running in the parks around Westminster He s unlikely to want to reduce the office of PM to that of stooge in a contrived TV stunt but he could probably hold his own over a breathless jogFitness rating 8.


In March 1982 Roy Race returns to Melchester Rovers after coming out of the coma he was in following his shooting He is welcomed by Sir Alf Ramsey who had stepped in as manager whilst Race was in hospital.


Pope Francis in a procession with other clergy after leading a holy mass in the Namugongo area of Kampala.


Castles in the air the proposed buildings of the Moscow International Business Centre Image Moscow IBC.


Looking for policy Ed Miliband outlined his deficit approach but not much became clearer.


Activists in Rio de Janeiro Brazil protest against the collapse of a wastewater dam at an iron ore mine in the River Doce basin.


Fish tailDrag queen Minnie Cooper working her couture.


Senegalese director Moussa Toure and guest arrive for the screening of Like Someone in Love.


I met a black man once Chatroulette users get to quiz WebCameron.


Professor Frank Furedi says mindfulness is infantilising The least pressure is now interpreted as an unwanted intrusion and too much to bear.


Maybe we need privacy disasters like this to help us wake up Brian Krebs the cybercrime journalist who broke the Ashley Madison story in July 2015.


Area police and firefighters work at the scene after a passenger jet crashed into a home on Mogadore Road.


The vulnerable coast at Dunwich in Suffolk.


The England team that regained the Ashes in 1912 featuring SF Barnes.


Andy Coulson s counsel told the jury that Coulson knew mistakes were made at the News of the World but was not involved in phonehacking.


Leicester s Ben Youngs was a creative star for England in 2010 but has lost form at international level.


Apps will only become more important and big brands must embrace them according to research firm App Annie.


Those at 420 Day which started life as an American procannabis movement hope to see marijuana legalised.


Ashley Giles success with Warwickshire has put him in the frame to be Andy Flower s longterm replacement.


I don t identify as anything St Vincent performing in San Francisco.


Incidents of sexual offences increased by 208 Most of the increase was accounted for by incidents of sexual crime against females.


Could MPesa that has dominated the mobile money market in Kenya be in for stiff competition.


The Hunter Killer mission provided plenty of interesting challenges for the audio teams.


The Knicks head coach Derek Fisher looks dejected.


George Tregoning was among those to endure a muddy day s racing at Brighton on Tuesday.


Krystian Bielik s performance was reminiscent of Per Mertesacker.


Corporal Elspeth Henderson and Sergeant Helen Turner 1941 During the second world war Henderson and Turner were awarded the Military Medal for bravery for continuing to work on their switchboard even as their RAF base was bombed It is the distinctive orangered of their lipstick that catches the attention all their pluck somehow captured in the careful application of a little Max Factor.


The traditional Palio horse race in Siena.


Benn s support for airstrikes in Syria has left him at odds with leader Jeremy Corbyn who came to power opposed to military intervention.


Garry Monk was appointed by Swansea in May 2014 after a successful spell as interim manager.


Project Lilypad designed by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut is a floating ecopolis shaped like a giant waterlily that could house tens of thousands of people.


A man shows his daughter a sixshooter at the 143rd NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibitsin Indianapolis.


From mobsters to cyberpunks TimeSplitters threw everything at you.


Country music s new golden boy Chris Stapleton.


The news was muzzled and the images biased Michel Hazanavicius and Berenice Bejo at The Search press conference.


Dalmatian pelican Lake Kerkini Macedonia This is a globally threatened species due to habitat loss and persecution But in Europe the species has shown a remarkable recovery especially in Greece where it has benefited from targeted conservation efforts increasing by 289 since 1995.


Start him up Bill Gates sits on stage during a video portion of the Windows 95 Launch Event on the company s campus in Redmond Washington in August 1995.


A placard erected by protesters marks the spot where a rail bridge is proposed for the HS2 railway at Middleton Staffordshire which is getting superfast broadband.


The eightyear prison sentence of Robert H Richards IV was suspended Shanesha Taylor languished in prison for more than a week Photographs Delaware State Police Department Scottsdale Police.


Hughton looks delighted His side are now up to seventh in the table that should dampen speculation that he s about to depart the club.


Candles and flowers are laid at the gate of the French Embassy in Berlin The Brandenburg Gate stands behind illuminated in the colours of the French Tricolour.


Rescue workers continue their search on November in the flooded town of Cockermouth.


Ben Flower lands his savage blows upon Lance Hohaia in the Super League Grand Final.


Planking points are awarded for an original location.


Mokhtar Belmokhtar who Libyan authorities say has been killed in a US air strike has previously been reported dead on several occasions only to reemerge.


Kate Beckinsale and Daniel Bruhl in The Face of an Angel.


Ulan Bator which last year hosted talks between Tokyo and Pyongyang over Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea.


Quarry workers in Kenya who returned to their camp on Tuesday morning to find their colleagues murdered.


Michael Frayn This is how we make sense of the world through the stories we tell about it to ourselves and others.


Supergonorrhoea was first identified in 2011 in a discovery described as both alarming and predictable Illustration by Robert G Fresson.


Egyptian riot police stand guard as protesters chant antiMuslim Brotherhood songs in front of the presidential palace in Cairo.


Source F Alvaredo A B Atkinson T Piketty and E Saez The World Top Incomes Database Only includes countries with data in 1980 and later than 2008.


Members of Congress descend to a secure area at the Capitol to meet with national security officials.


Scallops the size of a Labrador s paw are served in a puddle of salty garlic butter Oban Seafood Hut.


Andrew Strauss cuts on his way to another halfcentury in the first Test.


Simon on the Streets is tackling rough sleeping in Leeds Could you do it for even a night.


Washington US A squirrel rests in the shade The western grey squirrel was added to Washington state s list of threatened species in 1993 when surveys indicated a decline in its geographical distribution.


Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall insists that although his side have an increased attacking focus they have not compromised their rocksolid defence.


Occupy London protesters outside St Paul s Cathedral in London.


BBC head of news James Harding has said the differences between the corporation and publishers have been overdone.


Making history the novelist Helen Dunmore.


What mean you by this token Crystal necklaces for sale.


Is being bored by your partner just a part of being in a longterm relationship.


Homes are engulfed in flames after a military jet crashed in San Diego in 2008 The US government has been ordered to pay 178m to a family that lost four members in the crash.


Scott Parker is disconsolate after the defeat by Holland but he was proud to wear the England armband.


Forecasts for more snow this weekend could lead to a further rise in callouts.


Robin van Persie scores Arsenal s late winning goal at Anfield in 2012 and the Gunners have not lost in a Premier League game at Liverpool since 2007.


Each snake was fitted with a radio tracker and its position monitored by GPS one to three times per week.


Matt Prior is embraced by Stuart Broad left as he leaves the field with Monty Panesar far right at the end of day five of the third Test between New Zealand and England.


13 October 2010 Relatives and friends of the freed miners visit flags on a hill overlooking the San Jose mine.


Nate Silver who successfully predicted the outcome of the American election.


With the Crows season now over attention in Adelaide now turns to the future of star player Patrick Dangerfield.


I m ready to start popping the champagne corks and cancelling my useless healthinsurance policy Mariella Frostrup photographed in front of a Morgan sports car courtesy of London Morgan.


Keith Fleming and Gail Watson in Barflies a good bar is a real asset to a theatre.


Dadaab Kenya Fouryearold Norto Yusef Mohamed waits with his mother who is trying to get them moved from a displaced persons camp.


A fasttrack to toothache Benoit Poelvoorde and Isabelle Carre in Romantics Anonymous.


Meanwhile Johnston drapes herself in the stars and stripes and looks to the skies in celebration.


Android continues to dominate the smartphone market.


This astronaut photograph highlights the northern approach to Mount Everest from Tibet Known as the northeast ridge route climbers travel along the East Rongbuk Glacier to camp at the base of Changtse mountain From this point at approximately 6100 metres above sea level climbers ascend the North Col a sharpedged pass carved by glaciers at image centre to reach a series of progressively higher camps along the North Face of Everest Climbers make their final push to the summit from Camp VI at 8230 metres altitude Located within the Himalaya mountain chain Everest is the Earth s highest mountain with its summit at 8848 metres above sea level.


Like father like son Has Luke gone the way of Darth Vader.


It was the javelin largely that cost Ennis the world title last year both on the day as she struggled to throw further than 3995m and over the season as a series of disappointing throws left Ennis in the B pool competition in Daegu isolated from her rivals.


David Petch Croydon 18 April 2012 David Petch 55 died four days after being assaulted outside his home Police and paramedics were called and found him with serious head injuries He suffered a brain haemorrhage and died in hospital Two people have been charged with his murder.


Lufthansa passengers wait in front of a bus bound for Munich after their flight was grounded in Madrid s Barajas airport.


Chinese cities have become more tolderant but but conservative attitudes remain deeply engrained.


The Macquarie University train station The university has released a twoline statement confirming the investigation.


Police prepared to enter the Occupy Oakland encampment Tuesday night.


Taking a bow Once picked up prizes at the Lucile Lortel awards and NYDCC awards.


A man ascends an escalator under signs put up by the Sweden Democrats at a subway station in Stockholm The Sweden Democrats are a genuinely reactionary party They want their country and indeed the world to be the way it seemed in the 1980s.


John and Michaela McAreavey Thousands of mourners are expected to attend her funeral today.


A dissected skull found in the grounds of the London Museum.


Haruhiko Kuroda announces the plan to buy up government debt at a rate only just below that of the US.


A player catches the ball during a Melbourne Rebels Super Rugby training session.


Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion Fathers often come off badly in Austen s novels Sir Walter Elliot father of Anne the heroine of Persuasion is a selfish heartless man absorbed by himself and his title He s almost a caricature of the dimwitted upper classes He is vain to the point of absurdity His house is lined with mirrors Obsessed by keeping up appearances he will only be seen in public with attractive or wellborn people He dislikes sailors because of their orange tan and supposed lack of breeding He s so vain he probably thinks this feature s about him.


David Miranda left with his partner the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald.


For film buffs Sauce is dressed as Tron.


Obama discussing the Start treaty during a phone call with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in the Oval Office on 26 March.


The Michelin Guide did brand content decades before the term was coined.


Florida billionaire William Koch left and his lawyer John Hueston hold bottles of wine outside Manhattan federal court.


Lesley Manville was crowned best actress for her performance in Ghosts which also won best revival and best actor in a supporting role for Jack Lowden.


Ayia Napa Cyprus A sailing boat is seen under the clouds in the sea during an autumn storm at the main beach Limanaki.


A state flag of Mississippi is unfurled by Sons of Confederate Veterans and other groups on the grounds of the state capitol in Jackson.


David Cameron met executives from Rupert Murdoch s UK newspapers five times between April and June 2011.


Kevin Pietersen would be available to play more often for Surrey if his international ODI retirement is confirmed.


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John Terry says Chelsea are good enough to win the Champions League this season.


Wilton s Music Hall Graces Alley Tower Hamlets Wilton s music hall is the only remaining example of a firstgeneration grand music hall in the world It is hauntingly atmospheric with a pervading aura of romantic decay which presents a real conservation challenge In 1850 John Wilton acquired the building made up of a pub and concert room and the neighbouring properties and constructed a much larger hall It s alleged that Wilton s was the scene of the first London display of the cancan after which it was immediately banned The entrance hall is simply the enclosed paved yard of the original tavern A narrow staircase leads to a warren of small supper rooms tainted with the aura of scandalous liaisons But the main hall is one of London s hidden wonders a long thin auditorium with an elliptical barrelvaulted ceiling Around three sides is a gallery carried on barley sugar columns with the balcony decorated with cartoon papier mache.


Backstage on the Royal Opera Japan Tour 2010.


Palestinians inspect the house of Amer Abu Eishe a suspect in the killing of three Israeli teenagers after it was demolished by the Israeli army in Hebron.


The war room Obama with his advisers from left Mike Mullen defence secretary Robert Gates vicepresident Joe Biden General James Jones secretary of state Hillary Clinton then intelligence director Dennis Blair and CIA director.


Pills and toiletries in a bathroom cabinet.


Western lowland gorilla Kimya delivered her first baby at about 605pm on Saturday in Melbourne Zoo s Gorilla House.


The Royal Society of Biology Photographer and Young Photographer of the Year winners have been announced as part of Biology Week Photographer of the Year was awarded to Barbara Stanley for Impala Fighting.


Food scares report from the FSA Salmonella bacterium.


Nervous Tissue 2 by David Marron drawing.


Now repaired after it was damaged following a theft the Arbeit macht frei sign is to be housed in an exhibition centre.


Former Treasury chief secretary Liam Byrne who left a note for his successor David Laws saying I m afraid to tell you there s no money left.


Alfredo di Stefano won and scored in a remarkable five European Cup finals during his career.


The oil prices warning comes as the International Energy Agency predicts fuel consumption will accelerate for the rest of this year.


The IPCC produces its assessment reports on climate change roughly every five years But are these reports failing to connect with people.


Adam Kushner s designs for a 3Dprinted estate.


Slipper had suggested that the case could not proceed because it would breach parliamentary privilege.


A tranquil scene as all hell breaks loose around it on Saturday night.


Freezedried beef pot roast moon food prepared for the Apollo missions.


Farhan Warfaa with his attorneys Warfaa is bringing a case against Yusuf Abdi Ali who committed various crimes in Somaliland in the 1980s and currently resides in the US.


Nike Air Jordan 1 1985 In 1984 Nike began making sneakers for the phenomenal Chicago Bulls rookie Michael Jordan However the NBA did not allow colourful sneakers to be worn so each time Jordan wore a pair of redandblack Air Jordans during a game he was fined 5000 Jordan s defiant flouting of the rules combined with his athletic prowess made his footwear famous The controversy fuelled fans desire for the shoes and in 1985 the first Air Jordans were released.


Danish prime minister Lars Lkke Rasmussen.


Nobel an Armenian bakery in Mirzayeh Shirazi Street Tehran Iran.


Newbury host the best meeting on Saturday with the Hennessy Gold Cup the highlight.


A royal commission hearing into the Catholic archdiocese of Melbourne this week.


Haggard fury Steffan Rhodri in I d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep Than Some Other Arsehole.


We need to support informed choice so that the A E department is not be seen as the inevitable solution writes Hilary Thomas.


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Whether or not this was a foul I think it s fair to assume the landing hurt It s a picture of Russia s Alexander Samedov in freefall above South Korea s Ki Sungyueng and is a rather dynamic action photo.


Barton Moss in Salford where energy company iGas has built a shale gas test well.


Johanna Konta beat the ninth seed Garbine Muguruza to reach the third round.


Yet even as he panders to those who d like to see the council entirely abolished Brandis must also satisfy a different constituency the Liberal traditionalists.


In a photograph from 1967 John McCain is administered to at a Hanoi Vietnam hospital as a prisoner of war.


Petrified Forest National Park Badlands Arizona.


Tube Lines funding battle with Transport for London could finish off the Labourled publicprivate partnership.


Bernie Sanders appears at the Netroots Nation 2015 event.


Stevens pointed out at the conference that many consultants already work overnight and at weekends.


Rick Perry capital punishment has entered into the debate surrounding his bid to become the Republican presidential candidate.


The Volkswagen Golf R Touch Concept car.


Hometown hero Bobby Gillespie performing in Glasgow.


The global airline industry will make heavy losses if the eurozone crisis intensifies IATA has warned.


Tibetan people have dinner around a fire close to their collapsed homes in Jiegu.


Plans to reorganise public health in the health bill could jeopardise exercise programmes that promote healthier lifestyles.


Test of reading and writing filling out the 2001 census form.


A spoonful of mashed potato not necessarily according to Grandma Petersen s Norwegian recipe.


21 November Back in August who could have predicted that a former nonleague striker would have equalled Ruud van Nistelrooy s feat of scoring in 10 successive Premier League games Against Newcastle it took Vardy almost until the interval to take one of the chances that kept coming his way Appropriately he began the decisive move exchanging passes with Ulloa and making an angled run before cutting cleverly inside Chancel Mbemba All that remained was for him to shoot low and unerringly beyond Rob Elliot.


Scholarly in science as well as literature and history Lisa Jardine.


One direction John Kerry with the Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud alFaisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Riyadh this month What does this deal mean for USSaudi relations.


Randi Zuckerberg when marketing director of Facebook at the Digital Life Design conference in 2011 in Munich.


In 1962 Margaret Coles accepted a post at the Church Missionary Society hospital in Omdurman southern Sudan where she worked mainly with leprosy sufferers.


Yahoo has struggled to find a direction and under CEO Marissa Mayer s leadership.


Tim Cook s pay reduction is a result of not receiving any stock awards for 2012 because he was handed more than 375m in stock awards the year before.


The Iron Lady poster and Meryl Streep who stars as Margaret Thatcher in the film.


The closure of one club could never have sucked the oxygen out of Soho.


Japanese children wearing traditional Bavarian clothes.


Incidents on three Qantas flights on Monday forced planes to make unscheduled landings.


An emotional Lady Cecil after her horse Riposte s victory.


Worgen are able to transform between wolf and human formsIllustration Blizzard.


Students demonstrate against higher tuition fees and cuts in university funding in London.


Orphan Brothers by Asa Sjostrom won second prize in the daily life singles category Twin brothers Igor and Arthur hand out chocolates to their classmates to celebrate their ninth birthday in an orphanage in Moldova.


I like buying books on Amazon but I m under no illusion that this means the novel will survive as a result of my preferences Will Self.


The gannets that nest on the reserve make up what is the biggest breeding colony on the UK mainland.


Almost 3000 people died after alQaida terrorists flew aeroplanes into the World Trade Centre in 2001.


Our songs may sound happy but deep inside they are not Bjorn Ulvaeus and Frida Lyngstad.


Michael Morpurgo and Joey outside the Menin Gate at Ypres.


Sean Penn and Charlize Theron attending the premiere of Mad Max Fury Road.


A model wearing an Iranianstyle manteaux and scarf.


Priests involved in the ritual return to the main church for the Sunday service where the bulk of the congregation has been worshipping.


Christian Bale stars in The Flowers Of War.


Impossibly lovable Lyric Hammersmith s Secret Theatre ensemble.


People using phones to order takeaways have boosted Just Eat s business.


British fashion designer Giles Deacon wellknown for his playful designs said I love to make time to support good causes and the UK s wildlife is a cause that really needs our help It s fabulous that so many designers have got behind this idea it s a really great way to get us all thinking about how we can make a home for nature on our back doorstep It s fun and makes the world a better more beautiful place just like fashion.


Vincent Kompany celebrates scoring Manchester City s second in their 30 Premier League win against Chelsea.


New York USA A view of New York City looking north taken from the 75th floor of 432 Park Avenue This new building is America s tallest residential skyscraper with 104unit condominiums spread over 96 stories.


Geek chic Paul Feig director of Bridesmaids.


Customers wait to receive their telegram receipts as employees transcribe telegram messages on to a computerised system at the central telegraph office in Kolkata.


Srdja Popovic You need to offer people the chance to do something meaningful and crucially to get away with it.


Illustration of assassin John Wilkes Booth running to the stage after shooting Abraham Lincoln at Ford s Theatre Washington DC April 14 1865.


Out of the shadows The novels of Mo Yan who has won the Nobel prize in literature have shone an unforgiving spotlight on communist society.


A Nigerian corn farmer tends his crops Many farmers in developing countries lack access to advanced seeds fertilizers and other technologies.


Honduras s Carlos Pavon celebrates scoring the winner in his side s vital World Cup qualifying win over El Salvador.


Not worried about dying Mark Chopper Read in 2003.


Joseph Goebbels the German propaganda minister photographed in about 1940.


British student Richard ODwyer with his mother Julia leaving Westminster magistrates court in London on January 13 2012.


Ballan wrasse and dead man s fingers Dead man s fingers is actually a type of soft coral that forms thick fleshy fingerlike projections They form in groups and can often cover large areas of reef as seen here They may be pink orange white grey or yellow.


My dearest twit twaddle Richard Burton gets romantic.


Fear of mass unemployment has been proved wrong as automation makes the economy stronger.


A survivor warms himself by a fire at an emergency shelter in Otsuch where 12000 out of a population of 15000 are missing.


An aerial view of Norfolk Island A referendum on the island on Friday found support for selfdetermination but the federal government says the vast majority of residents want to be brought into Australia s taxation and welfare system.


Martin Guptill starred for the Black Caps in their quarterfinal match against the West Indies posting a nearfaultless doublecentury.


Trees and fruit on the Hope Vale banana farm near Cooktown lie destroyed by cyclone Nathan on 20 March.


All by myself Lee Evans doesn t need TV appearances to be a successful standup.


Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hattrick as Real Madrid ended Sevilla s long unbeaten home run but two of those goals came while Grzegorz Krychowiak was nursing a broken nose.


Manchester United fans protest against the Glazer family with the club s bank debt still the largest in the Premier League.


Part of a DNA base sequence read generated by an automated sequencer.


An arctic tern about to peck a mans head as he walks through nesting seabirds on Inner Farne.


Unison said nurses looking after acutely ill patients in intensive care units would keep working during the industrial action.


Ivana Hoffman who died on 7 March 2015 Hoffman was a communist fighting to defend the revolution she said.


North Korean defector Pak Jongsuk centre is used as an example of a defector who was forgiven.


Web of intrigue zoologist Fritz Vollrath.


In a protest demanding the opening of the border between Greece and Macedonia in the northern Greek border station of Idomeni in Greece a migrant holds a a sign in sympathy.


The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has rounded on his critics defending his record as a manager.


England s Alastair Cook looks on during a practice session at the Adelaide Oval before the second Ashes Test.


Star Wars ATAT walker The AllTerrain Armored Transport Walker also known as the Imperial Walker An unstoppable intergalactic war machine Until your brother Derek trod on it.


Illustration submitted to the Guardian s Beautiful Games.


Google cofounder Sergey Brin centre training in zero gravity Eric Anderson founder of Space Adventures is lower right.


Brisbane s Darren Lockyer says goodbye to the fans after the NRL semifinal with St George Illawarra Dragons which they won 1312 thanks to his drop goal and in what was his last home game.


Kolkata India Hindu devotees prepare to receive rice as offerings being distributed by the temple authority on the occasion of the Annakut festival.


Speak fast this is costing me a fortune.


Piggy in the diddle the rates associated with Pigyby and friends can be easily bettered elsewhere on the high street.


Bottom Ash October 2010 Louisiana USA Bottom ash disposal pond at coalfired power plant.


Liberal candidate for Lindsay Fiona Scott said asylum seeker policy was a hot topic in western Sydney because the traffic was crowded.


Liz McFarland lent Adair 7000 She came back a week later and I lent her another 6000.


Wayne Rooney reacts after missing a chance for Manchester United against Malaysia.


Look at the size of the locust that lands on him while he s celebrating It s almost as big as the ball.


These chicken pies are bursting with flavour.


A special agreement between the central government and the ethnic armed group controlling Loilem has permitted children to access basic education and English language lessons.


Dark side antigay protestors at Matthew s funeral.


Winner Cultures and Traditions portfolio A herdsman in Yamal Russia.


Jim Murphy speaks at the Scottish Labour HQ in Glasgow as he stands down as Scottish Labour leader.


At 71 the bar Diana Ross set is still high.


The move to vouchers will see recipients who need help to replace a broken fridge being given chits redeemable only in acredited local furniture recycling projects.


Sound waves baritone Christoph Pohl as fisherman Johannes in Morgen und Abend.


Nick Clegg flanked by Nigel Farage left and Yvette Cooper right on the Andrew Marr show on Sunday.


The steelworks in Port Talbot which Tata intends to sell off.


Timmy Chandler has a busy summer once again in 2015.


Berlin Buddha Zhang Huan s work is made from ashes.


Aaron Ramsey and Falon Poe from Missouri sign up to be among the first to buy retail marijuana in Colorado.


Concerns have been raised at the ease with which the base jumpers managed to enter Twickenham unhindered.


This is Debbie on the Bowery in New York in the mid70s wearing a Stephen Sprouse dress one of his earliest creations says Chris Stein.


Turnbull emerged from the party room all smiles alongside his deputy Julie Bishop.


Lord Rothermere left with David Cameron.


A sign near an animal shed at Godstone farm which remains closed after an outbreak of e coli.


Nikolai Patrushev right with Russian president Vladimir Putin and then defence minister Sergei Ivanov in Dagestan in 2005 when Patrushev was head of Russia s secret service.


Cradling her healthy newborn baby girl 27 year old Asha Jatav from Madhya Pradesh in India has arrived home after a safe delivery in hospital But it s only recently that women like her have been able to get to health centres to give birth Pictured with mother in law Mathura and Asha s other daughter.


Pigs being reared on a blitzed area of north London in April 1944.


Ashok Mavee a farmer who sold up his land in Dadri.


Airport expansion options released include extra runways at Heathrow and Gatwick.


Fire crews ran night operations and controlled burnings to contain the Butte fire in Sheep Ranch Wildfires in California.


BP Exploration Alaska president Steve Marshall shows the extent of the spill.


Can Italy s Prime Minister Enrico Letta win Wednesday s vote.


In August 2006 this press agency Land Rover was destroyed in Gaza City by a rocket fired by an Israeli helicopter two journalists travelling inside it were seriously injured.


Chelsea may increase their offer for Bayer Leverkusen s Andre Schurrle.


Jimmy s Iced CoffeeWith skate ramps trampolines and walls lined with quirky memorabilia this London office epitomises cool Each week we hold skate evenings for people to come and ride while we wrap up the day with a cold beer says its director Jimmy Cregan We also all have standing desks which keeps you on your toes literally.


An anonymous Iranian woman describes how she was beaten and raped in a detention centre A clip of the film has been viewed more than 75000 times online.


Revenge can be tweet the FT says it knows of no talk of revenge from editor Lionel Barber.


Heathrow moved quickly to distance itself from Baker s comments saying it took the concerns of local communities very seriously.


Bat For Lashes I ve always had this rule that we shouldn t repeat anyone on the cover of Loud And Quiet unless it s really justified Bat For Lashes is one of three artists who s had two cover features this shot was for her first in December 2009 as Two Suns was named our Album of The Year It s still one of my favourite photos by Phil Sharp and Natasha Khan even brought makeup and costume changes to our cold shoot location which hadn t happened before and hasn t since.


Ian Bell believes he has regained his form and confidence ahead of the third Ashes Test.


It s likely that Mr Claus weight gain is attributable to a higher calorie intake than 2 cookies and a glass of milk.


Only one basic rule for those in attendance no nudity Let s all hope they adhere to that.


Jack Nicholson never has to go to these lengths Will Ferrell sneaks into Tuesday night s Lakers game dressed as an usher.


Yahia a civil engineer from Syria with his wife Amal and two of their children in Brodersby northern Germany.


Defeat for Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid.


President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during a Rural Economic Forum in August.


From left Zuri playsuit 75 Lalesso Baker white loafers 249 Good Guys Charlotte pendant 30 madeukcom Justine tee 38 REV Model wears Christopher Raeburn SS 15 Leafprint jumpsuit 79 Komoko Parakeet striped jumper 75 Maitri Handmade silverwatch 390 JustinDuance.


Nicola Sturgeon speaking in Edinburgh on Tuesday.


Step change ballet costumes made from recycled objects by Marja Uusitalo.


Ellyse Perry needed stitches after a challenge from Lisa De Vanna.


Acting up Tom Cruise throws himself into the Lip Sync Battle sketch on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.


The UK has had to increase coalfired electricity production to pay for the cost of generating highly subsidised renewables.


People at the Lagos Jazz Series at the Park.


A mighty bastion No wonder Sir Walter Scott built an imaginary castle there.


Tim PigottSmith plays Charles in King Charles lll by Mike Bartlett and directed by Rupert Goold.


Looking at benefit claimants to vacancies in some areas shows more than 30 claimants for each vacancy according to the IPPR.


Selling science the presenter Brian Cox.


Mirco Antenucci scorer of the first goal celebrates Leeds United s 30 victory in their Championship match at Huddersfield Town and Leeds United.


Doug Richard says he has seen people of every level of academic ability become successful business people.


Sir Nicholas Hytner who will leave the National Theatre in London by 2015.


French economist Thomas Piketty author of Capital in the 21st Century.


Portal coming to a Steampowered Mac near you tomorrow.


Seville Spain penitents from the San Gonzalo brotherhood carry their crosses as they take part in a procession.


Actor Cate Blanchett looks at driftwood sculptures by Fiona Hall on display at the Australian pavilion.


Current TV shows like Orange is the New Black Good Wife and Game of Thrones are loaded with brilliant complicated women.


Britain s Kyle Edmund feels the pressure in defeat.


The SDGs will form a key part of Ban Kimoon s legacy as UN secretarygeneral.


Nowhere to hide Gunnar Cauthery as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors.


Moldovan police take Geiger counter readings of radioactive materials found in a garage in Chisinau.


Jon Hamm as Matt in Black Mirror White Christmas along with the razorship wit a very human story.


Froome says this year s Tour de France course is a hell of a lot harder than 2012.


The very first introduction to Poot Lovato but the internet didn t know it yet By Versaceslut.


Scottish diver Roddie Sloan takes a boat out in his adopted home in Nordskot northern Norway which has 80 inhabitants and is 300km inside the Arctic Circle.


An India fan in Mumbai shows his support for his side.


Jim Mansell s expertise was called on regularly by the government.


Toronto Canada Keira Knightley arrives at the premiere of The Duchess during the 2008 Toronto international film festival.


Pumphouse Langton Dock Bootle Merseyside This redbrick sentinel is crumbling at the edge of a container park in Merseyside It originally housed a steamengine to operate the locks but as shipping declined the dock was left to languish.


The South African antiapartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele left greets Helen Zille head of the Democratic Alliance.


BBC4 wants more satire like Twenty Twelve to refresh its schedules.


Anne Muir admitted downloading and sharing more than 30000 music files.


La rue St Pierre a village in the Lot et Garonne southwest France This village is a Bastide dating from 13th century A busy commercial centre up to the 1960s things have changed but still a very pleasant place to live.


New revelations about lane closures on the George Washington bridge suggest the plan was the Christie administration s order.


Former president Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton in New York City in June 2014.


How to Betray a Dragon s Hero High up in the treacherous mists of the Murderous Mountains Hiccup and the Company of the Dragonmark are in hiding Can Hiccup dodge the dragons and steal the King s Things back from Alvin before the Doomsday of Yule Is there a traitor in Hiccup s camp I ve had lots of letters from readers telling me off for leaving this book on a cliffhanger poor Hiccup Authors can be very cruel Also have you noticed that the illustrations have become bigger and more dramatic as the series has developed I did that on purpose to show how the stakes are getting higher.


Jenny Geppert the sister of Kim Hunt leaves the inquest into the deaths of the Hunt family members at Wagga Wagga on Tuesday.


Stanley Evans I m independently minded and determined not to allow this to change how I live or where or when I go out.


Tiger Woods has not played tournament golf since August and has since undergone a third back operation.


L Q s training scheme has seen residents complete skills training within Canary Wharf and the City of London.


Residents stand on a street outside their houses after an earthquake hit Chile A tsunami watch alert has been issued for countries including Hawaii and New Zealand.


A mid morning stretch Luckily I had my camera pointing straight at this swan when it decided to do this.


Merged life can be frantic messy and short on sleep.


A reindeer herd in Vesteralen Norway NRK TV s producers don t know when the migration will happen but are prepared to clear the schedules for it.


Australians are carrying 180000 tonnes of extra weight all up.


Stephen Fitzpatrick at OVO s Bristol office.


Fatsia japonica flowers are another useful winter food source for pollinators.


Churchill never had his picture taken with a pint of soapy lager Al Murray.


Constantly having to defend his appeal Valentino in The Sheik.


Yazidi women take part in a military training session in Sinjar.


George Osborne delivers his culture of good housekeeping budget statement to the House of Commons.


Provocative Pauline Goldsmith Samuel Keefe Barnaby Power and Elicia Daly in Vanishing Point at Tron.


Halloween pumpkinhead lantern lit with candles.


Fernando the elephant bought by Tim Jonze when stonecold sober.


Preparations for Chile s first funeral for illegally aborted foetuses in Vina del Mar.


With dancing partner Darren Bennett on 2009 s Strictly Come Dancing.


Tuff Love from left Suse Bear Mike OHara and Julie Eisenstein.


Keeping up appearances an ambulance worker in Kennington London applies her lipstick 1940.


Onboard Team Alvimedica Will Oxley and Charlie Enright discuss the everchanging weather and tide systems.


Syrian soldiers eat icecream at a market in the Old City of Damascus.


The BBC s Android iPlayer app has been downloaded more than 12m times.


Petrol prices at a garage in central London on 23 May 2008 close to the summer pricing peak.


Desk with chocolates This is in Paris By the time we got to Paris everyone was there pretty much 24 hours a day and all the comfort food possibilities were available at all times Obviously Lee went up and down with his weight I know there were times when he d have a personal trainer some dude who d been a rugby player and he d drop lots of weight Other times you d come into the studio and all the McQueen ladies would have their salads and then there would be the pies I knew who the pies were for.


The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is seen with the International Space Station s Canadarm2 in the foreground as it holds position 98 ft from the station as the crew of the ISS conducts final tests before the grapple and docking of the capsule.


Children particularly the most destitute are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change.


Environment reporting creates its own environmental footprint but the Guardian is doing its best to minimise it.


Pope Francis blesses Sophie Cruz 5 from Los Angeles during a parade in Washington.


Frankie Dettori looks to have a strong chance on Free Zone in the 5f Conditions Stakes at Nottingham.


The film is set to star Anthony Mackie as Olympian Jesse Owens.


Nominee Ralph Fiennes in Cannes last summer.


Many Pacific islands and other areas are in danger of being swamped by rising seas as a result of global warming.


In a cast after his release from prison.


The convoys were announced by UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura on Tuesday.


The Expendables 2 blew away the competition for the US box office crown.


Flooding has been exceptionally bad in Somerset after the wettest January for more than 200 years.


Our planet Earth Astronomers have found a superearth exoplanet 37 light years away from our solar system.


Castleford Tigers Matthew Cook is held up by the St Helens defence at Langtree Park.


Gustav Fridolin with his prime minister Stefan Lofven and cabinet colleagues in October 2014.


Wales coach Warren Gatland could not hide his delight after watching his side beat England at Twickenham.


The ECB s Christian Noyer remains optimistic on the euro crisis.


Kristin Scott Thomas with Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral.


The solitary bee was last seen in Britain in 1946 but has now been found at seven sites in East Sussex.


Celtic s Fraser Forster pulled off a string of fine saves to thwart Barcelona at Camp Nou.


Abbey Church at New Norcia in Western Australia.


Terra Incognita 3 Flashing up the Archbishop.


Palestinians release balloons at the site of the Dalou family home in Gaza Twelve members of the family were killed in an IDF airstrike.


A wild banana exclusive to the western Chinese province of Yunnan on the border with Burma.


The water is used to ensure the sheep are clean when being butchered Iran s agricultural sector is subject to changes in rainfall and although the government has attempted to reduce this dependence through the construction of dams irrigation and drainage networks agriculture remains highly sensitive to climate developments.


Iranian antiriot police scuffle with protesters during a demonstration near the Saudi embassy in Tehran.


10 September 2013 saw Lampard join an exclusive club when he became only the eighth England player to win 100 caps.


The colour of money Sotheby s is selling Mondrian s Composition with Red Yellow and Blue.


Luis de Guindos and Wolfgang Schauble at an economic forum organised by the Adenauer Foundation.


Real Madrid s Gareth Bale during training.


Arrestees often are not processed at the Homan Square facility in apparent violation of Chicago police directives.


Actor Sarah Polley is to direct an adaptation of Margaret Atwood s novel Alias Grace.


Romantic terrain a scene from Trio by San Francisco Ballet at Sadler s Wells.


Setting out to Fish by John Singer Sargent.


Nottingham Contemporary gallery part of the new Grand Tour route.


Rula Ghani the Afghan first lady in the presidential palace in Kabul.


Everton central defender and captain Kevin Ratcliffe parades the Division 1 Championship trophy.


Going through the motions Chicago the Musical in London s West End.


The Bespoke OvercoatClayton made his belated directorial debut with this 33minute Oscarwinning gem a transposition to an East End Jewish milieu of Gogol s fable about a proud man determined even as a ghost to own a handmade coat The film was adapted from his own play by Wolf Mankowitz who knew this world well Two celebrated actors from Jewish workingclass backgrounds Alfie Bass and David Kossoff play the ghost and the tailor and they also appeared in another whimsical East End movie written by Mankowitz Carol Reed s A Kid for Two Farthings.


Nadia Clarke picked out words for her answers on a computerised voicebox.


A large number of the majorityrenter constituencies are in London.


UKBoth Wales and Scotland have suffered deforestation between 2000 and 2012 England has too but less obviously so because it lost most of its forest cover many centuries ago but it is notable that there are flashes of red even in national parks such as the Yorkshire Dales.


A man holds a Jack O Lantern topped with a skeleton doing the ALS ice bucket challenge during Halloween pumpkin races in Manhattan Beach California.


A survey has revealed that the most popular sandwich filling in a school lunch box is ham followed by cheese.


Drew Brees celebrates a fourthquarter touchdown for the Saints.


Protesters clash with police in the Besiktas area of Istanbul.


Vadim Koshlyak and Alnur Mussayev right in court in Vienna.


Women taking the contraceptive pill faced a dilemma as a study revealed that while the hormones it contains can make sex less satisfying relationships tend to last longer.


The working border collie dog traditional assistant to livestock farmer and stock drover.


RZA This will have to be an album without Raekwon or an album that never sees the light of day.


Dan Snow These things aren t just apps on an iPad they re the way that people are going to learn in the future.


Binyavanga Wainaina said I have received thousands of messages from Africans telling me you have my support.


Wreck of the week Kent This was the manager s house of a former gunpowder works in Oare Adjoining a country park in a semirural area budget about 150000 to fit the interior and a drainage system on top of the 400000 asking price Unfortunately two of the four bedrooms are on the lower ground floor with the garage JacksonStops Staff.


Sports Direct employs 20000 out of its 23000 staff on zerohour contracts.


A Sierra Leonean health worker carries the body of a child for burial Swab tests show that 30 of bodies picked up by burial teams are positive for Ebola.


The Financial Services Authority is sitting in on board meetings of the some of the biggest firms in the City as it steps up its surveillance of those institutions it believes could pose a major risk to the financial system In an attempt to rectify some of the criticism it faced in the wake of the collapse of Northern Rock the FSA is now demanding access to the inner workings of big banks and other highrisk groups as part of what Hector Sants the chief executive of the City regulator regards as an eyeballto eyeball approach to regulation.


On a busy day s racing the best bet is in the Irish 2000 Guineas at The Curragh.


In how your body uses energy 140 calories of cola is not the same as 140 calories of broccoli.


The amphisauna at SALT is believed by some to be the world s largest Capable of seating around 120 people the sauna has a bar at the back and fills up in the evening with those escaping the Arctic chill.


10 The Chocolate War by Robert CormierCormier s young adult novel set in the fictional Trinity High School and following hero Jerry Renault as he challenges the school s brutal mob rule was first published in 1974 and was made into a film in 1988 Reasons given Nudity sexually explicit offensive language unsuited to age group.


Liam Fox said he would rather be free to speak up about the economy immigration and Europe.


Rihanna denim sportswear kitsch accessories.


The selfproclaimed greatest living rock star on the planet.


It is unacceptable that our cancer survival rates lag way behind our European neighbours said health minister Paul Burstow.


Shop and linger M0851 is a classic designer B B.


This KFC ad will encourage children to speak with their mouths full I must complain.


Real Madrid s defender Sergio Ramos jumps to kick the ball away as Bayern continue to dominate the ball in the second half Still it s 10.


Daniel Christie who died after being punched by Shaun McNeil on New Year s Eve 2013.


Jarryd Hayne scores the 12th try for Australia his fourth in the Rugby League World Cup win against the USA.


German chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at the German Federation of Employers The country has avoided recession.


Wuthering Heights found in the most unexpected of circumstances marked a high point of adolescence for Riddell as for so many teenagers.


Music of a rich sinewy immersion Leveret.


Here come the girls Bridesmaids has broken new ground in its portrayal of women on the big screen.


Ambulances outside Maelbeek metro station Brussels after the attack on Tuesday morning.


The Laxton Map Maps are not just practical documents but seductive works of art The fields of a manor house near Nottingham become bands of colour here in a wonderfully abstract expression of the English landscape.


Dale Morris is tackled by Rohan Bail during Saturday s match at Eureka Stadium in Ballarat.


Independent London mayoral candidate Siobhan Benita addresses the crowd at the Ministry of Sound nightclub.


The reason we are losing our values is that we are failing to nourish them and hold on to them It is a collective meanness of spirit.


Valerie Mitchell head of the games workforce at Glasgow 2014 said The volunteers certainly make the games they are the heart of the Games and are the friendly faces you see everywhere Without them we couldn t put on such a great sporting event.


Currently on loan from Inter to Gubbio in Serie B Simone Benedetti is a skillful centre back who can also play at RB He s available in Fifa 12 at 6m and has the potential for an overall rating of 85.


A Greenpeace activist stands outside a closed BP petrol station on the day the firm reported one of the largest losses in British corporate history and the departure of its boss Tony Hayward.


Train operators and Network Rail have been warned that the current level of government support is unsustainable.


Manchester United starting XI v Wolfsburg 8 December 2015.


Ivory Coast s Yaya Toure left receives the Africa Cup of Nations trophy in Equatorial Guinea which hosted the tournament after Morocco s withdrawal.


Cathy Freeman is consumed by joy after winning gold in the 400m at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.


Day 1 The changing London skyline as seen through the window of the Aquatics Centre.


If you enjoy camping This former coach house in Eyton upon the Weald Moors Shropshire could be a stunning home one day but in the meantime you will have to rely on your gas stove and chemical toilet Planning permission has been given to turn it into a sizeable home with separate sitting and dining rooms a summer roomoffice a kitchenbreakfast room and four bedrooms three of them en suite It is listed so some of your options will be limited and until you get that roof on you ll need your thickest sleeping bag The guide price is 185000 Savills 01952 739424.


A member of the clergy arrives for the Church of England General Synod in York which voted in favour of female bishops.


The teams line up before kickoff Chelsea s captain John Terry shakes the hand of the FA s David Bernstein yep that s right the same David Bernstein who dismissed him as England captain.


Professor Eilleen Munro and children s minister Tim Loughton at Tower Hamlets Overland Children s Centre in east London Munro has published her interim report on child protection.


Don t let me down Paul McCartney a longtime animalrights activist has joined Queen s Brian May in criticising the new leniency towards foxhunting.


Wolf s Child WildWorks show for the Norfolk Norwich festival.


The Cardiff City manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer lamented his side s soft defending against Hull City.


Martin Peters 66 scored England s second goal against West Germany in 1966 England won 42 There was a guy who bought tickets off the players and I sold my two tickets like a fool It meant my mum and dad couldn t go I regret that even today I feel embarrassed by it I was about two or three yards outside the box and I could see the ball coming and I thought God it s coming to me It hit the back of the net and it was wild just wild.


Extreme events displaced 22 million people in 2013 led by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines three times more than the number displaced by conflicts.


Mia Farrow attends Bow Street Magistrates Court London 11 November 1968.


Andy Murray embraces his coach Ivan Lendl who brought a shift in mindset to the Murray project.


Jermaine Defoe and Sunderland go in search of a vital victory against Everton.


Investment is supposed to be about the future and climate change is a stock problem it is the total amount of carbon we dump in the atmosphere that matters not the rate we dumped it last year.


I can t live without music Erwin Schrott.


Also a glider pilot Rear Admiral Nick Goodhart designed a glider type that is still in use.


The US quartet was looking into escape routes around Tripoli when there was an alleged incident at a checkpoint.


Repossessions fell 41 in the second three months of the year.


Joe Biden speaking in Philadelphia last week.


Leucanthemum Old Court A robust clumpforming perennial with sumptuous deep green leaves and a crown of frothy flowers Height 90cm.


Local bovines seem more interested in the cameras than the riders behind them.


Winter at dawn on the Ivel at Sandy December 2013.


Tituss Burgess and Ellie Kemper in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.


A mudmask might help a warthog with redbilled oxpeckers standing on it in South Africa.


Peter de Villiers the South Africa coach has been told to stop making colourful comments in the media by the country s sports minister.


With emergency workers stretched to the limit people have been forced to respond to the crisis as best they can Here a man in Pasig City east of Manila uses a rope mechanism to traverse floodwaters Officials say many of those affected by the situation still need food blankets and medicine.


Archbishop of Turin Cesare Nosiglia in front of the Turin shroud during a preview on Saturday.


Groupon has become the biggest internet flotation since Google.


Tim Cook spelled out Apple s secret weapon at its WWDC summit on Monday.


An image of Nora Ephron is screened behind Tom Hanks director George C Wolfe and cast members at the Lucky Guy premiere.


David Cameron should do the maths on immigration said Lech Walesa.


Riseborough on the set of WE with Madonna.


Friends reunited Josh Brolin Sean Astin Corey Feldman and Kerri Green in The Goonies a followup film is in the works.


Eightstory passivehouse in Vaxjo which features wood frames and thick walls to keep cold air out and humangenerated heat in.


No sooner has Walcott finished his delirious celebration than Podolski hits the back of the net to make it 31.


An enraged Basil Fawlty attacks his car with a branch.


Andy Murray needs to recover physically and mentally before facing Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open final in Melbourne.


McCullum has a snigger as England s captain Eoin Morgan holds his head in his hands.


Alberto Moreno right who has proved a hit at Liverpool holds off Real Madrid s James Rodriguez.


Football fans stocked up on TVs food and alcohol for the World Cup but overall UK retailers reported falling sales in early June Above England flags fly in a Bristol street.


A sick Iraqi child at Falluja general hospital Doctors report a recent spike in numbers of children with early life cancers.


13 May 2010 Liam Fox named as defence secretary among Britain s new cabinet after the Conservatives are joined in coalition by the Lib Dems.


Announcing the Michael Forever tribute concert in 2011 Katherine Jackson with children LaToya Tito Jackie and Marlon.


Mark Johnston can get off to a fine start at Ayr when his stable saddles King s Pavilion in the 230 contest.


A dining hall inside Mike compound at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea.


70s style Le Donne Curiose by WolfFerrari at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.


Siberian tigers are one of the world s rarest species.


An Asian gharial at a crocodile farm in Pierrelatte France Conservation efforts on the Chambal river in India seem to be paying off.


Currency being exchanged in the Qaysari Market on June 15 2014 in Erbil Iraq The military group Isis which now controls the city of Mosul could have acquired over 2bn in cash and assets.


Art and music therapies have proven effective there are many recorded instances of people unable any longer to string a sentence together in conversation singing wartime songs or proving word perfect in their knowledge of the Beatles songbook there is persuasive film of people painting and beginning to smile and talk often after a long silence These are activities that dig deep beyond brain damage and into surviving parts of the mind.


The Buzzard oil platform in the North Sea.


In Scotland nearly a dozen groups are now fighting over its constitutional future before the referendum on independence expected in 2014.


Sergio Pizzorno and Tom Meighan of Kasabian on the main stage.


Mikheil Saakashvili the former president of Georgia shocked the postSoviet world when he became the governor of the Odessa region of Ukraine in May.


Councils are opening up the lines of communication with councils.


Reanimator Horror author HP Lovecraft gets a splatter makeover yucks aplenty as dead tissue gets reanimated and a severed head goes on the rampage.


The National Laboratory Medicine Catalogue will standardise the way pathology tests are requested and reported electronically in the NHS.


Thomasina Miers tagliatelle with blue cheese tahini and caramelised onions Simple and comforting.


Tahir Shah in the restored library of Dar Khalifa and its original pool.


YORKSHIRE RIPPER PETER SUTCLIFFE 59 WHO IS SERVING LIFE FOR THE MURDERS OF 13 WOMEN IN WEST YORKSHIRE BETWEEN 1975 AND 1981 TODAY.


A winning photograph in this year s 2011 Raja Ampat underwater photo competition of the rich marine life in the waters of Raja Ampat in the eastern Indonesian region of Papua.


Tom Lubbock 24 hours before first operation in 2008.


Free ecards was beating flower delivery in US Google searches.


Swansea City s Chico Flores No 4 scores against Liverpool in the Capital One Cup at Anfield.


In search of perfect waves and the history of the California surf scene journalist and author Michael Fordham took a road trip from San Francisco to San Diego.


You may wonder why exactly but zookeepers are taking the footprints of a quokka at Taronga Zoo in Sydney Staff are collecting the footprints of almost 4000 animals for a new conservation project in Thailand.


Masai wait to vote in elections in Tanzania s Loliondo region earlier this year The land rights victory was won through political and legal interventions with particular mobilisation by women.


A recurring role in Coronation Street saw him play shopkeeper Ravi Desai.


Sarah Jessica Parker is to star in new HBO comedy Divorce written by Sharon Horgan.


Members of the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team greet their manager David Van Sleet.


Teenage Eritrean migrants fleeing their country s harsh compulsory conscription policy rest in Ethiopia after crossing the border.


A lion walks in the Hwange national parkZimbabwe has said it will not charge US dentist Walter Palmer over the killing of Cecil the lion who was lured from the park and the Zimbabwean hunter accused of failing to stop the Palmer has said that charges against him should be dropped too.


A doomed love Alex Reid and Katie Price.


Travellers using the interterminal air bridge at Gatwick Airport British Airways easyJet and Ryanair have urged Gatwick s owner BAA to cut back work on its 900m improvement scheme at Gatwick airport as passenger numbers fall in the recession.


Smart use of comedy Christian Roe and Syrus Lowe in The Velveteen Rabbit.


According to a 2011 study more than a quarter of California schools do not teach basics about HIVAids prevention and less than a third include teaching about sexual orientation.


Patjim Kasami scored a thrilling volley for Fulham but I watched it miserably I d left him on the bench.


Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin said the UK faced a national crisis in the form of less growth and jobs.


Another police photograph shows broken glass windows at the Dallas police headquarters.


David Moyes looks like a man trying to navigate the Martian criminal underworld with a boy scout compass.


Messi glides past David Beckham as Barcelona push forward again.


News of Cheryl and Ashley Cole s separation has dominated the headlines this week.


Motorola Moto G review a premium experience from a budget phone for just 135.


British Airways caused controversy when it changed its Avios rewards scheme earlier this year.


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07021967 Queens Park Rangers fans invade the pitch after their 31 victory over Birmingham City put them into the League Cup Final.


Megan Wade a pupil at Portsmouth college says of the introduction of longer classes You get a lot done.


Roger Ailes certainly not being cut down to size.


As a small minority protest outside the Aston Villa supporters conclave white smoke rises signalling the selection of their favourite forwardthinking Christian honks Bertrand Bolek.


Nick Cruwys was attacked in Little s Lane Wolverhampton on Saturday evening.


Nottingham Forest s Jamie Paterson celebrates after completing his hattrick against West Ham in the FA Cup.


Public Perception of Colour Yellow by Rob and Nick Carter This Londonbased husband and wife duo asked members of the public to select the shades from the 2700strong Pantone range that they felt best represented a series of colours The swatches were compiled on aluminium sheets to create monochromes representing the public perception of colours.


I love opera but I ca nt bear musicals every song sounds the same Howard Brenton.


Keith Richards Ben WishawThe real Keith Richards is indestructible This Keith Richards looks like he could be broken in two by a mild breeze.


Wrestling training in the central gym The portraits in the background show Akhmad Kadyrov Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov.


Looking for the end of the rainbow with Kadir Nelson s He s Got the Whole World In His Hands.


Protesters wear nurses caps emblazoned with RIP as they shout slogans.


With homelessness on the rise many social and private tenants are being priced out of the capital A makeshift home built from cardboard carried the entire march and left outside City Hall for Boris.


The Tasmanian governor Peter Underwood at the swearing in of the new Liberal cabinet in March.


Pharrell Williams will join indie labels on Apple Music service at launch.


After his spell in the army with 2 Para David Campbell specialised in psychiatry at the Royal Edinburgh hospital and then branched out into psychotherapy.


Gabrielle Jackson four days after the accident at Bademiya a streetside kebab wallah just behind Mumbai s Taj Mahal hotel.


The 1991 drama Close My Eyes has Rickman shoot his first actual sex scene as he played a man in a love triangle.


Festivalgoers endure the rain at the main stage during the T in the Park Festival at Balado in Kinross.


Hat with no name the western movie set built by Sergio Leone for A Fistful of Dollars.


The Israeli president Reuven Rivlin centre arrives.


Xherdan Shaqiri Age 23 Fee 12m16m Possible suitors A big club who s happy to dig deep into their wage budgetDespite seeing limited playing time for his club the Swiss winger has delivered consistently for his country including a World Cup hattrick Stocky leftfooted trickster famous for his instinctive longrange shooting.


Interestonly loans were popular during the boom years when borrowers banked on rising house prices to make repayments.


Georgia has become the top US market for electric vehicles outpacing California.


The Union of South Africa steam locomotive arrives at Edinburgh s Waverley station to carry the Queen to Tweedbank.


Vince Cable wants a single figure for executive pay so the public can understand exactly how much bosses earn.


Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy talk on the 10th green during the US Open second round.


Lenny Henry is giving a 10part radio account of a century of black performance.


A woman prays at the Kadonowaki primary school in Ishinomaki.


Stephanie McMillan film set decorator photographed with props she used in the Harry Potter films.


President Barack Obama shakes hands with supporters at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia.


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AntiEU street art in Athens the prime minister Alexis Tsipras has criticised the creditors strange stance.


News of the World phonehacking investigation Guardian front page 792010.


Mary De Rachewiltz Ezra Pound s 86yearold daughter has gone to court to stop a neofascist organisation using her father s name.


The LA Galaxy player Robbie Rogers came out in 2013 after leaving Leeds United.


Snow Day by by Richard Curtis and Rebecca Cobbreviewed by Emma Reilly Cian It s snowing and only two people have made it in one teacher and one pupil who up until now were ENEMIES Of course neither of them could leave and so the fun begins Reilly loved spotting all the school items used to make snowmen and is now desperate for the white stuff to start falling so he can build an igloo This is a great book for winter and my two boys really enjoy listening to it This in one of my favourite books and perfectly captures the magic of a snow day.


Carwyn Jones of Welsh Labour is struggling to conceal a confidence bubbling below the surface.


Tribal members and other supporters say the move recognizes the rich history of people who have inhabited the area for centuries.


Daisy Goodwin There s a lot of grimness out there pleasure seems to have become a rather neglected element.


Books found inside James Whitey Bulger s apartment in Santa Monica California.


Dubois Wyoming US Icicles form on a building destroyed in an overnight fire.


Phil Bardsley was omitted from the squad that travelled to the Tottenham game after Paolo Di Canio saw a photograph of the defender lying on a casino floor and covered in 50 notes.


Kaufmann Desert House Palm Springs California.


City AM shows a message to readers detected using adblocking software asking them to turn off the application to see all the website s content.


Will housing associations be forced to be more transparent and publish details of expenditure.


Nigel Farage speaks to reporters at Doncaster racecourse before Ukip s annual party conference.


A member of staff removes the Iranian flag from the stage after the nuclear talks in Vienna Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal this week capping more than a decade of onoff negotiations with an agreement that could potentially transform the Middle East and which Israel called an historic surrender.


Ben Mirin birder and professional beatboxer.


George Osborne s tax statement is designed to make people think we spend more on bad things than on good.


Who cares about a reality TV show These two have a movie empire.


Danny Nicholson and his colleague from Leyton fire station in London.


We need to use a clear accurate application of scientific evidence to help reassure local communities that reserves of British natural gas can be developed safely and with the minimum of environmental impact.


Street life Joel Meyerowitz exhibited his work at the Format photography festival in Derby.


Empty sunbeds in Torremolinos Spain s recession is expected to last well into next year.


England s mascot is carried from the field and mercifully spared the sight of another home defeat to South Africa.


We became obsessive about our casting Claire Marshall performs one of Forced Entertainment s tabletop Shakespeare productions.


Clare Wood whose murder led to the establishing of Clare s Law.


Children growing up will struggle to achieve the same living standards as their parents.


A young Lithuanian woman who was a victim of trafficking and forced into prostitution in the UK.


The cold weather brings the bitterns out of the reeds to try to find food at Attenborough nature reserve in Nottinghamshire Rare bitterns are bouncing back with the highest number of booming males recorded since the 19th century The elusive heronlike birds have been helped by European conservation measures that have supported the restoration and creation of wetland habitat they rely on the RSPB said Prized as a medieval banquet dish and hit by hunting and the loss of its reedbed habitat as wetlands were drained bitterns became extinct in the UK in 1886.


Eduardo Paolozzi at the Morris Singer Foundry in Braintree Essex c1957.


A protester holds a placard with portrait of Dalai Lama s choice for Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima.


Defense Attorney Samuel Leibowitz speaks with defendant Haywood Patterson one of nine men charged with the rape of two women on a train The other defendants are standing behind Leibowitz and Patterson.


Chelsea s John Terry left scores his most recent Premier League goal against Liverpool at Stamford Bridge last Sunday.


Volvo S60 D5 This car is so clever it knows how I m feeling even before I do Photographs Simon StuartMiller for the Guardian.


Utterly unforeseeable the damaged Victorian terraces belonging Deborah Orr and her neighbours.


Lord Prescott is known for occasional verbal slips.


Kiribati has been identified by scientists as among the nations most vulnerable to climate change.


Path the makers of the social networking app have been fined 800000 for collecting users contacts data without permission.


Since beginning operations here the IMC physiotherapy team has conducted almost 1300 treatment sessions with more than 550 patients.


Loving our Soviet past Soviet bass is a new sound.


You want dystopian fiction Try a bit of homegrown talent Patrick Ness author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and most recently More Than This.


The bunya nut or Araucaria bidwillii is native to the Australian rainforest.


Polly Stenham What I wear changes what aspect of my personality dominates that day.


Police offered words of advice to the wildlife presenter Chris Packham on the Isles of Scilly where feeding gulls is discouraged in order to stop the birds becoming a nuisance.


What links Kate Moss to suspected illegal immigrants Some were seen escaping from a lorry 10 miles from her house.


Jeremy Kyle deems himself a private figure according to his lawyers but his guests and any family with the misfortune to be connected to them are classed differently.


Napoli fans display their pride during an away match at the Etihad stadium Manchester earlier this season even if their English leaves a lot to be desired.


Our tips will help prospective new headteachers stand out from the crowd when applying for new jobs.


Young 14 and under Katie Woodhouse for Lollipop Lawn.


Hull City v Chelsea probable starters in bold contenders in light.


For sale fivebedroomed house in a cathedral close Carlisle Cumbria.


Vladimir Putin left and Russia s prime minister Dmitry Medvedev visit the museum devoted to the legacy of Russia s first president Boris Yeltsin.


Eric Anderson sees casual sex as different from affairs a view many wives would challenge.


Taylor Kitsch at the GQ Gentlemen s Ball last month.


Protective clothing of a different kind a moped rider cyclist covers up in traffic wearing a face mask.


David Sturzaker and Cush Jumbo as Nora Helmer in A Doll s House at the Royal Exchange in Manchester.


The sea snail Volutopsius scotiae one of four new species found hundreds of miles off the northwest coast of Scotland.


Anthony Andrews plays Anthony Eden alongside Abigail Cruttenden as Clarissa Eden in A Marvellous Year For Plums at Chichester Festival Theatre.


The deformed feet of fouryearold Zahra Muhammad.


Gadgets Coolpix S1000pj Compact Camera with Projector.


Scarface probably best with the swearing left intact.


On 24 September the dense dust that had covered eastern Australia the previous day blew south over the Tasman Sea towards New Zealand The dust plume is still densely concentrated in this image highlighting the strength of the winds The lower half of New Caledonia is visible along the top edge of the image Hidden by clouds the northern shore of New Zealand s South Island is outlined in the lower right corner of the image.


An Indigenous community in Darwin Many organisations have been scaling back programs in anticipation of the cuts.


Pope Francis greets the faithful during his weekly general audience in St Peter s Square Vatican.


Louis van Gaal is thought to be the prime target to replace Davis Moyes as Manchester United s manager.


The price of some annual season tickets could increase by 1000 by 2019 with passengers facing six more years of rises.


Ben Reid chief executive of the largest independent Coop Midcounties has resigned.


Tony Bennett I am so grateful to be an American.


The reluctance of so many companies to take a stand against climate change raises questions about the depth of corporate partnerships with NGOs.


Molenbeek while it has its problems with unemployment crime and drugs is also a place where anyone can easily hide.


The Southern Center for Human Rights based near the Georgia state capitol in Atlanta has investigated Cordele s judicial circuit.


The invasive shrub Rhododendron ponticum now colonises large parts of Britain.


In bocca al lupo This is similar to break a leg When someone says this to you the correct reply is Crepi which means May the wolf die.


The fundraiser in your family is probably itching to create spreadsheets to track all that loose change in their piggy banks Help them out by gifting them their very own digital coin collector from Debenhams.


If you can t get hold of pecorino use parmesan in the polpette.


Comedian Chris Addison photographed in the Royal Opera House in London He spoke about his career in the leadup to performing in the comedy opera L Etoile.


Athletes tackle a hill section on bikes in Pembrokeshire Wales.


Spanking the competition EL James rules the Kindle kingdom.


Edin Dzeko scores Manchester City s matchwinning goal against South China in Hong Kong.


Nigel BadenClay and Olivia Walton father and sister of Gerard BadenClay leave court after the appeal in Brisbane.


Pupils in Manila view a tribute to the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished in March.


Worth a Punta Puerto Escondido s surfing beach La Punta Zicatela.


Tigress aggression Lynda Rooke as Pat Phoenix in The Queen of the North.


Goodison Park Everton s home but for how long.


After working in the film industry teacher Anthony Shallow decided he to pursue a more meaningful career in teaching.


EPO blood testing EPO is a hormone released from the kidneys that acts on th bone marrow to stimulate red blood cell production.


Emperor penguin egg One of three eggs collected by Captain Robert Falcon Scott s expedition in 1910 It was hoped that the embryos inside would confirm a link between reptiles and birds.


A whale dives with Manhattan s One World Trade Centre also known as the Freedom Tower in the background.


Field Trip from Niantic aims to use location services and data buried in Google Maps to surface interesting facts and places as people roam the streets.


Jonathan Goddard with Phil Sanger Yolande YorkeEdgell and Laurel DalleySmith in Lingua Franca by Yorke Dance Project.


Britain s international development minister Andrew Mitchell said a global deal on aid effectiveness would nt have made sense without the involvement of China.


The peloton passes a field of sunflowers to create a classic Tour de France image.


After EU leaders failed to agree a candidate to succeed Catherine Ashton Herman Van Rompuy said the time was not yet ripe for a decision.


The Next pay rise will take the wage rate from 670 to 704 or 758 including bonuses.


Northern Ireland s Jonny Evans trudges off after his late red card during the World Cup qualifier in Azerbaijan.


Iran s Forough Abbasi crashes during the first run of the women s Alpine skiing slalom event.


Figures from the ONS show that two years of declining unemployment is more about a fall in the rate at which companies make workers redundant than the creation of new posts.


French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel threw down the gauntlet to Britain before the G20 summit in London in April last year demanding stricter banking regulations.


Lighting the way illuminations marking the impending adoption of the global goals and the 70th anniversary of the UN are projected on to the organisation s New York headquarters.


A Predator drone spyplanebomber Illustration Rex Features.


George Osborne speaking at the Open Europe conference in London.


Assistant director James Hurley looks on as Andreas Delfs conducts John Savournin Barnaby Rea Duncan Rock and JiMin Park The rehearsal room is set up to closely replicate the environment on stage Scenery props appropriate costumes and of course conductor are all present here as the lads wrestle with bottleopening and tablelaying as if singing were not enough of a challenge.


Relatives of Mohammed Abu Khdeir s hold pictures of him outside his home in Jerusalem.


In the park 10 weeks after surgery Probably the best thing Wayne says is being able to be a better dad to my kids I feel I can do anything I can make plans for the future I wouldn t have done that before.


Soldiers test their physical stamina during the ranger course on Fort Benning Georgia in April.


Buds in Winter There is nothing more magical than buds on the trees in January framed against an impossibly blue sky and bringing hope to the end of grim winter.


Tottenham appear to have beaten Liverpool to the signing of Anzhi midfielder Willian.


This image of a dark Manhattan skyline is the fifth most tweeted photograph Tweeted by ronniejoice it has been shared 1246 times.


A snapshot of content on our comment Tumblr account so far this month.


Second to nun Julie Andrews in the 1965 film of The Sound of Music.


Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring sends a Valentine s message to loved ones back home with a red heart on the warship s flight deck.


P is for pink Work by Jasper Fitzgerald communication design student at Glasgow School of Art.


Assemblance a 3D interactive light field by Usman Haque and Dot Samsen from Umbrellium.


Junior Seau when with New England in 2007.


When artist Sean Rafferty pulled his collection of Australian fruit and vegetable cartons together for a show at Bondi pavilion in Sydney he lined them up according to latitude of origin Tropical latitudes are dominated by bananas and mangoes Photographs Sean Rafferty.


Libyan rebels in the eastern city of Benghazi celebrate fending off an assault by forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi.


Jeremy Corbyn will be disappointed if he searches for himself on Google.


Stephen Emmott performs during a rehearsal of the play Ten Billion a collaboration with theatremaker Katie Mitchell.


Ballet dancers suspended on ropes perform to a sparse crowd during the opening ceremony.


A Tibetan antelope in Hoh Xil northwest China s Qinghai province Pregnant Tibetan antelopes have begun their annual migration to the birth grounds in the heart of the Hoh Xil nature reserve 10 days earlier than normal according to the reserve s management bureau.


The New Statesman s Twitter account reimagined in full technicolour glory.


A Leicester clothing factory in 1948 As wages bear less and less relation to the cost of living it seems as good a time as any to ask if the underlying fantasy is that employers will one day be able to pay their workers nothing at all.


The most memorable vision from the 2015 ACTU congress was the male delegates assembling on stage after taking the White Ribbon pledge.


BBC stike Union officials believe they have secured an undertaking that the BBC is willing to revisit the pension changes if the deficit proves to be less than 15bn.


I think when you re paying 15000 for a dress you re entitled to a pair of sleeves Iris Apfel at Barcelona s Mandarin Oriental hotel for fashion week.


Andrew Purcell is now the editor of iSGTW and is based at Cern Geneva.


Untitled The Whitechapel Gallery s exhibition which embraces a quarter century of Bhimji s work runs from Thursday 19 January to Friday 9 March.


Looking east from Stirling steam and smoke rise from the factories of the Forth valley.


Martin Skrtel has lost an appeal against his ban for stamping on David de Gea.


The Light of the Spirit by Patrice WarrenerWestminster AbbeyAll photographs David Levene for the Guardian.


My current pile for the next two months All so beautiful.


A challenging work Amanda Lawrence and Sebastian Armesto in Damned by Despair.


A family huddles on the roof of a mosque in the town of Sanawa Punjab province as they await rescue from the floodwaters.


Microsoft Surface tablet with a 106inch screen which was introduced at an event in Hollywood California USA 18 June 2012.


The crisis began on Thursday 24 October 1929 After a bull market that had lasted most of the decade shares began to fluctuate dramatically On Black Thursday panic set in Nearly 13m shares changed hands then a record as investors tried to get out of the market.


An aerial view of the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.


Dr Ewan Birney defended Encode s findings.


Seven time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong leads the pack through the downtown streets on his way to winning the 49th annual Nevada City Classic.


Detail from the cover of Lavie Tidhar s Osama.


Man Ray s photograph of the Dadaists taken in 1922 Back row from left Paul Chadourne Tristan Tzara Philippe Soupault Serge Charchoune front row from left Paul Eluard Jacques Rigaut MarieLouise Soupault Georges RibemontDessaignes.


Members of Survivors Voice a foundation for victims of abuse by priests are pictured prior to a protestg march at the Vatican.


Graduate Bonny Oliver left and her mother Marlene Andrew Hasson.


Meldonium was added to Wada s banned list on 1 January and is intended to treat ischaemia or poor blood flow but can improve endurance.


Ivan Hinton right and Chris Teoh at their wedding at Old Parliament House in Canberra in 2013 Within a week the high court had struck down the ACT Marriage Equality Act and the marriage and those of other gay couples was no longer recognised in Australian law.


The wreckage of the British European Airways plane which crashed in Munich on 6 February 1958.


Protesters carry signs and chant Pay your fair share at the General Electric shareholders meeting in Detroit.


What to do having travelled 7500km on a whim turned up unannounced at the home of an aunt you ve never either corresponded with or set eyes on in a lifetime Give her a hug.


Police say more victims have confidence to report serious offences.


Poor conditions in the facility like black mould shown here may be to blame for seven deaths the lawsuit says.


David and Victoria Beckham at the Midland Hotel Manchester by Juergen Teller.


Roger Federer returns a shot during his 63 62 75 victory over Grega Zemlja at the US Open.


Funding will go to projects teaching Islam in Citizenship in UK madrassas.


Nick Clegg has turned up the heat in the final 36 hours of campaigning.


Christoph Willibald Gluck at the Spinet 1775 by Joseph Siffred Duplessis.


Swedish sex workers have said that since clients have been criminalised they have been treated worse by the authorities.


The Golden Resources shopping mall in Beijing SocGen s Albert Edwards warns that growth in China could slow rapidly.


Pastas have a comforting starchy slipperiness lobster tagliatelle.


An SNCF train at Gare de Lyon The row erupted after an internal SNCF memo referring to 0 reservations as an exceptional measure became public.


I d lay 10 to one on a dollar bet Prince said who s gotten rich off it writes an American reader.


People from both sides turned out in huge numbers.


Is St Vincent s new album slated for release next month your most anticipated of the year.


Bowie at Foxgrove Road the morning after the moon landing July 1969.


The Seashell House Isla Mujeres Mexico is among the properties advertised on Airbnb.


A Darfur refugee camp in Abu Shouk where decades of drought helped to trigger violence in the region.


Pollution floats in Guanabara Bay site of sailing events for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.


Mark Kennedy in 2011 after he had left the police force.


Senator Nova Peris makes a statement in the Senate Photograph by Mike Bowers for Guardian Australia.


Claire Burgon undergoes fetoscopic laser treatment to combat twin to twin transfusion syndrome.


The data breach sparked a wave of court actions from asylum seekers.


A little girl climbs runs through the rubble of devastated buildings in Aleppo May 2014.


Susie Wolff would be one of the leading drivers if Bernie Ecclestone s idea of a women s grand prix comes to fruition.


Leicester is using the romance of the last Plantagenet king to push for cycleways and more pedestrianisation.


The Toyota Venza crossover sedan is to be the subject of a product recall in the US.


A scene from Avatar whose UK animators are proving role models for students.


Film image is different from digital Tacita Dean.


CB Richards loved his work and had a particular genius for turning theory into practical working applications.


Fracking and oil drilling in California A US environmental report is being used to inform new fracking guidelines for Australia.


Sir Brian Souter chairman of Stagecoach.


Davis a suspected affiliate of Mohammed Emwazi is thought to be in a group of British Islamists assigned to guard foreign captives in Syria.


Attending school was never an option for May Yoi Ching because boys and their education are prioritised over girls in her society But a few years ago the Ikea Foundation funded an education project run by Save the Children in May Yoi s village The project was a sixmonth sewing course which she was able to attend it was close to her parents home.


This recipe with its apples is a hat tip to the city that served as a backdrop to much of the financial crisis.


Information is Beautiful on legalising drugs Click image for full graphic Illustration David McCandless.


Matthew Elliott has presided over some heavy defeats for the Warriors this season.


Dispute centres on products the Libyan sovereign wealth fund bought from Goldman Sachs in early 2008.


Over time savers will come to realise what a poor deal pensions offer without huge amounts of government support but George Osborne will be long gone.


Some question whether it s right for a stateoftheart institution to be devoted to treating pets CT scans of Harry s head.


The New York Stock Exchange Apple is to join the Dow Jones.


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Title TarzanAgency Uncle Grey Made for WWF Tag line 15m sq of rainforest disappears every minute.


Catherine Bailey s husband received a text message from her half an hour before her body was found.


Public buses are required to have space for at least one wheelchair They are not required to have floorspace for buggies shopping trollies or wheeled suitcase.


Yaghma Golrouee was arrested a few weeks after publicly criticising the authorities for not allowing his book to be published.


Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun by John McGrath.