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Sudoku 1,867 hard
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 09068 338 228. Calls cost 60p per minute at all times. Service...
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Sudoku 239 killer
Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a...
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7/7 bombings: A summing up
Conclusions from the 7/7 verdict suggest the institutions guarding people's safety are not as good as they could beLondon is one of the great cities of the world, an ethnic and cultural hub, a tourist...
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Letters: Political nightmares and the nasty party
As the results emerge (Lib Dem support collapses, 6 May), a nightmare scenario starts to look all too plausible. Collapse of Lib Dem support; voting reform off the agenda for a generation; SNP triumph...
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Good to meet you: Brendan Lynch
A reader and author from Ireland recalls the protest marches of the 60s and praises the Guardian's tradition of asking searching questionsI've read the Guardian off and on since the late 1950s; my...
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Dirty Dancing: it's not just about sex
As the hit musical Dirty Dancing prepares to go on tour, our reporter joins young hopefuls at open auditions, and asks how a low-budget film became 'a cultural event that lasted decades'You could...
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How flimsy research gets inferior drugs to market | Ben Goldacre
Bad evidence on whether drugs really work can arise simply because nobody asked the right research questionSome of the biggest problems in medicine don't get written about, because they don't concern...
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Our pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet
Oliver Laughland on the people and stories in the media spotlight in the last seven daysThe storyCabinet spatAt last! A year after the election, one of the Lib Dem front bench has explored the rigidity...
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Children's authors rail against Michael Gove's reading lists
Michael Rosen and Alan Gibbons line up to reject proposal for primary schools floated by national curriculum panelChildren's authors are gearing up for a fight over whether schools should be given...
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The Saturday interview: Judd Trump
Judd Trump caused a sensation this week when, aged just 21, he rocketed into snooker's World Championship final. So who is this new boy wonder?Judd Trump can measure, precisely, when and how fast he...
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Letters: Electoral lessons for the Lib Dems and Labour
It is hardly surprising that the Liberal Democrats were hammered more than the Tories in the council elections. People who voted Tory in the general election were in favour of Tory policies (Lib Dems...
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Letters: Colombia defends its justice system
Re Sally Hunt's letter (May Day call for the release of Dr Beltrán, Letters, 2 May), please note the following:Miguel Angel Beltrán is being investigated by the independent judiciary for alleged links...
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Letters: Canada's Bush
As a former correspondent for the Observer in Washington, and a Liberal, I may be qualified to say that Heather Mallick talks codswallop when she says that our Conservative government verges on being...
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Elections and referendum: All shook up
The single most important consequence of Thursday's voting is the sheer bloodiness of the bloody nose delivered to the Liberal DemocratsSo many of the most potent themes of British politics came...
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Weatherwatch: a flower of happiness
On the eve of Expectation Sunday, 9 May 1875, the clergyman Francis Kilvert went out to lock a gate at his parsonage at Langley Burrell, near Chippenham."The wind had dropped, and all was still, save...
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Country diary: Paxton Pits, Cambridgeshire
On a still spring evening we came to the lakeside to fulfil a winter promise. For a while, we sat in a hide and watched hundreds of gulls swooping low over the water. It was a largely silent spectacle,...
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Letters: Communist tactics
I would like to point out that the tactics used by the police in London during the royal wedding (Report, 30 April) are exactly the same that communist police used in Czechoslovakia against human...
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The Damnation of Faust - review
Coliseum, LondonAt first sight it seems really perverse to invite Terry Gilliam to cut his teeth as an opera director on a work that isn't really an opera at all.Berlioz labelled it a "dramatic legend"...
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Barack Obama flies to thank troops who killed Bin Laden
The president has good reason to be thankful to the assault team – the raid has silenced his critics and reshaped his imageBarack Obama flew to Fort Campbell on the Kentucky-Tennessee border on Friday...
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Suspected Osama bin Laden aide set for US extradition over 1998 bombings
Khalid al-Fawwaz charged with helping al-Qaida plan 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and TanzaniaA Saudi man accused of conspiring with Osama bin Laden in the bombings of two US embassies expects...
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