Italian bishop turns heads with Giorgio Armani vestments
'This is about wearing something beautiful to give glory to God,' says Bishop Domenico MogaveroThe devil may wear Prada, but a Sicilian bishop has set out to show Satan does not have a stranglehold on...
View ArticleBlacks Leisure poaches Figleaves boss as Comet chief makes sudden exit
• Outdoors specialist Blacks brings in head of online lingerie site• Comet commercial director moves into top job at electrical firmStruggling outdoors specialist Blacks Leisure will announce that it...
View ArticleAV referendum: A century of highs and lows for electoral reform
Since the royal commission of 1908, political calculation has dominated the debate over electoral reformIn all the petty mud-throwing over Thursday's AV referendum one key protagonist who has attracted...
View ArticleSupermarkets kill free markets as well as our communities | Peter Wilby
Across the country local shops have been wiped out by supermarkets. This is an issue for the right as much as the leftA few weeks ago our last local butcher closed. When we moved to this suburban Essex...
View ArticleIan Tomlinson verdict could lead to manslaughter charge for officer
CPS reviews decision not to prosecute PC Simon Harwood over the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests two years agoPC Simon Harwood's first public account of what happened to Ian Tomlinson at the...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden killing sparks calls for early Afghanistan withdrawal
Debate within Obama administration over whether to speed up pullout of US troops, set to start this summerThe killing of Osama bin Laden has opened up divisions inside Barack Obama's administration...
View ArticleIan Tomlinson pathologist may have done postmortem on wrong body
Dr Freddy Patel's report on Daniel Abrey suggested he may have examined the body of a man almost a foot shorterThe pathologist who concluded that Ian Tomlinson had died of a heart attack at the G20...
View ArticleAV referendum: Heated row in cabinet over leaflet 'smears'
Coalition tensions rise over what could be crushing victory for no campaign in Thursday's referendum on alternative voteCoalition tensions over what could be a crushing victory for the no campaign in...
View ArticleBest in dough! French bakers battle to bag best baguette bounty
With a punishing criteria and several entries stakes are high at a Parisian contest seeking to identify best stick of breadThey are hot, golden and crispy. Their makers hold them like saints' relics...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden death 'justifies' torture of suspects, former Bush aides claim
Furious debate grips US as White House officials deny ex-Bush aides' claims that techniques such as waterboarding helped track and kill al-Qaida chiefA ferocious debate over the use of torture...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden's family maintain discreet silence over al-Qaida leader's death
Wife and eight children held after raid as sources close to extended family say many relatives hope death will close family chapterOsama bin Laden's relatives kept a discreet silence as more details...
View ArticleCoalition scales back privatisation plans over 'excess profitmaking' fears
Leaked memo of meeting between Francis Maude and business chiefs says 'no return to 1990s' and wholesale outsourcingThe government has privately admitted it is scaling back its plans to privatise...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden's final moments: America changes its story
The US has backtracked on claims that Osama bin Laden died in a firefight and used his wife as a human shieldThe account of what happened in Osama bin Laden's final hideaway was succinct and clear when...
View ArticleNo delight over Osama bin Laden's death in the night
There was no joy when the al-Qaida leader's death was announced in the Commons. Instead there was an almost glacial calmIn America, they have been whooping, waving banners from trees and chugging beer...
View ArticleLetters: AV vote is a pivotal moment
For much of the last century, the Conservative party dominated politics because of the outdated first-past-the-post voting system, which is still in place. So it is no surprise that David Cameron has...
View ArticleKeydata £100m bonds scheme: case closed
Serious Fraud Office finds insufficient evidence to prosecute over Keydata bond scheme that hit 21,000 small investorsThe Serious Fraud Office has closed its investigation into investment firm Keydata,...
View ArticleAV referendum: 'No' group claims 100% Tory help
Campaign director says backing from Conservative Campaign Headquarters became unequivocal following bill's royal assentDavid Cameron's attempt to distance himself from the No to AV campaign was...
View ArticleSpacewatch: the lovely legacy of comets | Alan Pickup
Twice each year we see meteor showers as the Earth ploughs through the stream of dusty particles that escaped from Comet Halley's nucleus in the distant pastIt is 25 years since Halley's Comet last...
View ArticleLetters: Some lessons from history on coalitions
Menzies Campbell's insistence that the AV debate will not break the coalition (Report, 26 April) reveals the "We know best" attitude of its supporters. He claims ending the coalition prematurely would...
View ArticleLetters: Playing the game to put an end to tactical voting
In a deeply uninspiring and depressing AV referendum campaign, your paper has perhaps made the only genuinely original contribution. David Broomhead's mathematical gloss (A formula for fair voting, 23...
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