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Bill Varney obituary
Sound mixer on Orson Welles's remastered film noir Touch of EvilThe cinema is habitually deemed to be a visual medium, more sight than sound, yet the latter is of equal importance to the texture of any...
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – review
Chichester Festival TheatreTrevor Nunn's fine production of Tom Stoppard's 1966 play begins with a striking image: the two heroes seen against the stark background of a leafless tree. The Beckettian...
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Sade – review
02, LondonWere it not for Kate Bush, Sade would have little competition for the title Most Reclusive Woman in Pop. Before last year's album, Soldier of Love, she hadn't released a record since 2000,...
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Takács Quartet/Hough – review
Wigmore Hall, LondonThe Wigmore Hall is celebrating its 110th birthday this week with a pair of gala concerts. For the exact anniversary of the first concert there, the recipe was simple: invite the...
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Jessica Lea Mayfield – review
Borderline, LondonAt only 21, Ohio's Jessica Lea Mayfield has released two soul-baring albums that have seen her described as a young Lucinda Williams or Stateside Laura Marling, and earned the...
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Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis – review
St George's, BristolIn the interpretation of tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Paul Lewis of Schubert's early song-cycle masterpiece Die Schöne Müllerin, it's apparent from the opening bars that the fate...
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Fukushima effect: Japan schools take health precautions in radiation zone
Schools located near the nuclear plant have removed and buried the topsoil from playgrounds amid concern over the risk to pupilsAt first sight, there seems little out of the ordinary on this wet...
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William Clarke obituary
City journalist who later wrote a biography of Wilkie CollinsWilliam Clarke, who did perhaps more than anyone else to chronicle and publicise the contributions made by the City of London and other UK...
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E Hamilton West obituary
Photographer with the Guardian for 26 years, whose career spanned glass plate and digitalHis byline was always E Hamilton West, which led some readers to think he had a touch of blue blood, but Ted...
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Global food crisis: Argentina in battle with multinational grain giants |...
• Argentinian authorities accuse big four of avoiding tax• All four companies deny the chargesThe Pampas are just as the old geography textbooks described them: vast flat plains stretching to distant...
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Argentina accuses world's largest grain traders of huge tax evasion
Grain traders ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfus deny charges by Argentine government of substantial tax evasionThe world's four largest grain traders, responsible for the vast majority of global corn,...
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Bahrain sees new clashes as martial law lifted
Demonstrations were quickly scattered by security forcesClashes between demonstrators and security forces have again broken out in Bahrain on the day martial law was lifted by a ruling monarchy...
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Google missed out on 'the friends thing', says Eric Schmidt
Former chief executive, now executive chairman, admits he was slow to get Google involved in the social networking revolutionGoogle's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has said that one of his biggest...
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Libya's oil minister defects to 'fight for democracy'
Shukri Ghanem leaves Tripoli for Rome and voices his support for rebels as Nato extends its mission for another 90 daysLibya's oil minister Shukri Ghanem has defected and now supports the rebels,...
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Osborne urged to rein in spending cuts after evidence of double-dip recession
Labour calls for cuts rethink after manufacturing growth shrinks and mortgage approvals have worst April since 1992Labour has stepped up its calls for George Osborne to rein in his public spending cuts...
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Olympic fans express disbelief after waking up ticketless
London Games organisers criticised after one man is allocated £11,000 worth of tickets while hundreds of thousands win none Blog: how successful were you in your application?London Olympic organisers...
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Chile to investigate Pinochet regime role in Pablo Neruda murder
Inquest will examine claims that Augusto Pinochet's agents injected poison into the Nobel prize-winning poet's stomachChile is to investigate whether Augusto Pinochet's regime murdered the Nobel...
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Many agree, none act: to ease untold misery, legalise drugs | Peter Wilby
The war on drugs is lost, as a global commission is set to admit. But no one in power has the courage for a switch to regulationIn September 1989 Milton Friedman, the man whose views on economics...
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Hosni Mubarak faces August trial over protest deaths and corruption charges
Ousted president could face death penalty if convicted over the deaths of more than 800 killed during revoltThe trial of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on charges of corruption and...
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Child neglect suspects questioned after boy dies in fall from Leeds flat
West Yorkshire police investigate neglect in half-term tragedy of six-year-old falling from eighth floor of Leeds blockFour people including a teenage girl were being questioned on Wednesday night on...
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