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Claude Monet's garden at Giverny hires English gardener
Giverny garden in Normandy, inspirational home of fabled Impressionist hires Englishman James Priest as head gardenerAn English gardener has landed one of the most prestigious jobs in French...
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Glencore can only pull this off once
The listing will probably go well but several questions remainGlencore's listing will probably go swimmingly. A strong collection of big institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds has been...
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US confirms it will not release Osama bin Laden death photo
Publication of photos blocked by Barack Obama, who says they might act as incitement to additional violenceBarack Obama has blocked publication of gruesome pictures of Osama bin Laden's corpse,...
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Russia awaits 'Kremlin poodle' trial as rocker takes on critic Troitsky
Guitarist takes music reviewer to court over slur but opposition claims case is latest spat between Kremlin and free-speaking cultural eliteHeard the one about the poodle, the goth and the Kremlin...
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Gaddafi arrest likely to get go-ahead as UN looks to war crimes trial
International community faces difficult task bringing Libyan leader to court but targeting Gaddafi may force defectionsThe next step along the road to war crimes prosecutions in Libya will come in...
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Former nurse jailed for aiding suicides over the internet
William Melchert-Dinkel posed as a woman in chat rooms and made fake suicide pactsA former nurse in Minnesota who encouraged an English man and a Canadian woman to kill themselves by chatting with them...
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AV referendum: crunch time for Nick Clegg as huge defeat predicted
Guardian/ICM poll finds 68% plan to vote no, suggesting support for electoral change has slumped in last monthThe century-long dream of electoral reform in Britain looks likely to be dashed for more...
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Osama bin Laden death leads to war of words between Pakistan and west
That Bin Laden could live so long in the country was 'an intelligence failure of the whole world', says Pakistan PM Pakistan's prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, lashed out at western critics as the...
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Irish Blood, English Heart – review
Trafalgar Studios, LondonDarren Murphy is clearly a generous man. We go to the theatre expecting one play and he gives us at least three: a psychological study of sibling rivalry, a social portrait of...
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Osama bin Laden death doesn't end terror threat – Met chief
Sir Paul Stephenson predicts that al-Qaida ideology will survive and warns that threat of attack on UK remains 'severe'Britain's top police officer has warned that the country is still highly likely to...
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Why house price slump could pick up speed
Low interest rates and a relatively low rise in unemployment have helped the property market make a soft landing - but George Osborne could spoil all thatAfter a housing bubble of epic proportions, the...
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David Cameron quotes Benny Hill song, but it's not the PM's greatest hit
Prime minister drops Winner putdown and plumps for 'fair-dairy land' reference from Ernie (the Fastest Milkman in the West)There was Angela Eagle sitting on the Labour frontbench, as if waiting for...
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House prices 'will keep falling for five years'
Thinktank says inflation will undermine any price rises, with mortgage lending and building activity both down in MarchHouse prices will fall in real terms for the next five years, a leading economic...
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Deficit targets will be missed, George Osborne told
National Institute for Economic and Social Research says UK performance has deteriorated since last autumnGeorge Osborne will miss his ambitious targets for slashing Britain's budget deficit as weak...
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Letters: Death of a terrorist and unanswered questions
Your correspondents have rightly been critical of the questionable legality of American action against Bin Laden and Nato attempts to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi (Osama bin Laden and wild-west justice,...
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Letters: Lessons from Canada and Northern Ireland for AV voters
Labour tribalists, who John Kampfner describes (Comment, 3 May) as preparing to gloat at the defeat of AV, should look at the result of Canada's election (Comment, 4 May) and reconsider their position...
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Weatherwatch: Taiwan's mountain weather station
Yushan, or Jade Mountain, is the highest mountain in Taiwan. On its north peak is a weather station, until recently the highest permanently inhabited building in the country at more than 3,800 metres...
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Letters: Tomlinson trial in the public interest
Attention now shifts to the director of public prosecutions to determine if PC Harwood should face a manslaughter charge (PC who struck Tomlinson could face trial, 4 May). The medical evidence that...
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Letters: Doorstep politics
I've just delivered thousands of Labour party leaflets and I've become a bit of an expert on letterboxes (Report, 4 May). Why do they design them too high up? Too low down? Too tight springs? Too...
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Corrections and clarifications
• Listing assertions made by each side before today's UK referendum on the alternative vote system, we said: "AV is used for Scottish local councils, in Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland....
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