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Police paid £250,000 in compensation to people arrested over G20 protests
Freedom of information request reveals that Met also spent £140,000 in costs while settling claims by detaineesThe Metropolitan police has paid out more than £250,000 in damages to people arrested in...
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Greece suffers another downgrade of its credit rating
• Standard & Poor's gives country a B rating• Agency blames missed deficit target• Greek finance ministry says move based on 'rumour'Standard & Poor's has again infuriated Greece by cutting the...
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John Walker obituary
Singer with the Walker Brothers, one of the most popular bands of the 1960sWhile British groups were conquering the American pop charts in the mid-1960s, the American-born Walker Brothers were a...
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Al-Qaida terrorist's widow to be hanged
Hasna Ali Yehye Hussein, whose husband Abu Ayyub al-Masri led al-Qaida in Iraq, claims she did not know about his actionsThe widow of the former leader of al-Qaida in Iraq is to be hanged on Wednesday...
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Ian Tomlinson death: IPCC rules Met officer 'reckless' in conduct
Detective Inspector Eddie Hall falsely claimed Tomlinson fell down before encountering PC Simon HarwoodA senior Metropolitan police officer was "reckless" in his conduct by misleading two pathologists...
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Pakistani media 'name' CIA station chief in Islamabad
Media outlets publish incorrect name of the station head as relations worsen between spy agenciesFresh tension has erupted between the CIA and Pakistani intelligence after several Pakistani media...
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Osama bin Laden death: Pakistan PM orders inquiry
Yousaf Raza Gilani denies Pakistan helped al-Qaida, orders army to answer MPs' questions and warns US over future raidsPakistan's prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, has ordered the army to investigate...
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Climate change 'threatens UK wi-fi connections', says government report
Study into impact of hotter, stormier weather on UK infrastructure finds threat to wi-fi range and signal strength• UK infrastructure 'will struggle to cope with climate change'Wi-fi internet access...
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Samoa time travellers to leap a day into the future
Pacific island chain plans switch to west side of international dateline to be on same day as Australia and ChinaSamoa plans to leap 24 hours into the future, erasing a day and putting an extra kink in...
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Homegame festival – review
Various venues, AnstrutherIt must be Homegame: where else of a Friday evening could you catch the bald, Amish-beard-sporting Gummi Bako screeching his trash-country tunes like a preacher on laughing...
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Berlin Philharmonic: A Musical Journey in 3D – review
UK cinemasMost of my musical journeys are in 3D, but then I'm lucky enough to hear most of my music live. I am probably therefore not the target audience of this cinema release by the Berlin...
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They Came to a City – review
Southwark Playhouse, LondonIn theatre and literature, visions of dystopian futures have overtaken utopian ones, but rewind 70 years to the darkest days of the second world war and JB Priestley was...
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Werther – review
Royal Opera House, LondonThis revival of Massenet's Werther marks the return of Rolando Villazón to Covent Garden after his much publicised bad patch, which involved serious vocal problems and a...
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Autumn and Winter – review
Orange Tree, London"It's been a strange evening," says a character at the end of Lars Noren's play. That seems an understatement for a work in which a family dinner party turns into a psychological...
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The Greek patient is getting sicker and Dr Merkel's reputation is at stake
Merkel prescribed a severe cure for Greece's debt crisis but she has little support from either the Greeks or the GermansGreece was diagnosed as critically insolvent a year ago. It was placed in the...
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BBC Countryfile presenter 'received death threats' over badger cull show
Adam Henson tells farming conference about hate letters threatening to burn his children after his bovine TB reportA presenter on the BBC show Countryfile has claimed his family received death threats...
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Torex Retail boss Chris Moore charged after SFO investigation
Chris Moore, former chairman of collapsed software company Torex Retail, charged with conspiracy to defraud and false accountingThe former executive chairman of Torex Retail, who built up the shop...
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Friends of the Earth boss demands climate target becomes policy
Andy Atkins writes to energy secretary Chris Huhne saying he should resign rather than deliver inadequate policies• Renewables can power the world, says IPCCFriends of the Earth has stepped up the...
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Middletons set to call in PCC over holiday bikini pictures
Snaps of Kate and Pippa Middleton, their mother Carole, and Prince William on yacht off Ibiza in 2006 appeared in tabloidsThe Middleton family are expected to complain to the Press Complaints...
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US housing market still falling
US property prices fell for the 57th consecutive month in March – and showed their biggest fall in three years, according to analysts at ZillowUS house prices dropped by 3% in the first quarter of 2011...
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