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Thurston Moore – review
Union Chapel, LondonIn his 30 years fronting New York art-rock perennials Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore has always looked to confound expectations. The cult star's latest solo project may just be his...
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James Vincent McMorrow – review
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London"This is going to be atrocious, but feck it," declares James Vincent McMorrow with as much optimism as a man brandishing a mandolin and battling a heavy cold can be expected...
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Hebrides Ensemble – review
The Arches, GlasgowAfter more than an hour of tormented aphorisms comes the singer's doleful surrender: "I can't actually tell a story – in fact, I am almost unable to speak." She collapses into...
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The Four Stages of Cruelty – review
Arcola, LondonPublished in 1751 for distribution among London's lower orders, William Hogarth's illustrations of the Four Stages of Cruelty contained a blunt moral message: don't stick an arrow up a...
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Mr Stink – review
Curve, LeicesterScratch-and-sniff theatre comes to family audiences with this musical adaptation of David Walliams's best-selling children's novel about the homeless Mr Stink, "the stinkiest stinker...
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Tanzania's art deco ruin, the Majestic cinema, inspires restoration campaign
At 'the Cinema Paradiso of Zanzibar' old films are watched under open sky – director Nick Broomfield hopes to put the roof back onEvery Friday they come, seven or eight elderly men gathered in a...
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Aviva boss Mark Hodges in shock departure
Chief executive Mark Hodges surprises insurance world by quitting Aviva after two decades to run TowergateMark Hodges, Aviva's UK chief executive, is leaving the insurer after 20 years to take the helm...
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Africa's rich cinema heritage
From Boer guerillas in 1909 at Durban's Electric Theatre to the Vox in wartime Tangier, inspiration for Rick's Cafe in CasablancaThe continent's first film show was in Johannesburg in South Africa in...
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From the archive, 2 June 1977: Anger at "prying" letters to foreign students
Originally published in the Guardian on 2 June 1977 Language teachers representing nearly 40 private schools have started monitoring an apparent rise in the number of Home Office letters to their...
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Ratko Mladic: Hague tribunal 'will get proof of former Serb general's ill...
• Lawyer says suspected war criminal had lymph node cancer• Mladic could try to implicate Dutch in Srebrenica massacreRatko Mladic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, is due to appear in...
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Congo-Brazzaville to ban plastic bags
Decree to outlaw bags blamed for causing floods and landslides by blocking drainsCongo-Brazzaville is to ban the production, import, sale and use of plastic bags in a move to fight environmental...
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Ireland aims to be home of Islamic finance in Europe
Sharia-compliant financial regulations will make Dublin a centre of excellence for Islamic finances, taoiseach saysIreland has launched a bid to become the home of Islamic finance in Europe as it seeks...
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Robert Leggat obituary
My friend Robert Leggat, who has died aged 70, created one of the internet's earliest photographic history resources, a history of photography from its beginnings until the 1920s,...
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Cairn Energy threatens to fine Greenpeace for Arctic drilling protest
British oil company wants to fine Greenpeace €2m a day if the campaign group disrupts its oil drilling operations in the ArcticBritish oil company Cairn Energy has filed legal papers with a Dutch court...
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Bullying Network Rail boss escapes punishment and keeps pension
Peter Bennett condemned for racist, sexist language as QC upholds claim over firm's misuse of public fundsThe head of human resources at Network Rail, who was condemned by an independent inquiry for a...
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MPs' expenses: latest figures show little evidence of rule breaking
In the first two months of the year, £3.2m was claimed, with only 154 out of 26,500 claims rejectedMPs claimed more than £3.2m in taxpayer funded expenses in the first two months of this year and less...
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John Hughes obituary
My friend John Hughes, who has died of cancer, aged 68, was appointed coroner for north-east Wales in 1982, and also for north Wales central when that office became vacant a few years later. He held...
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Kenneth Etheridge obituary
Old-style Scotland Yard sleuth involved in high-profile casesKenneth Etheridge, who has died aged 84, was one of the last of Scotland Yard's old-style, high-profile senior officers, regularly entrusted...
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Auschwitz sign to be housed in exhibition centre
Metalwork bearing Nazi slogan that spanned concentration camp gate will not return to original spot following 2009 theftThe council that oversees the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp...
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Gerard Smith obituary
Bass guitarist with TV On the RadioGerard Smith, who has died from lung cancer aged 36, was the bassist with the acclaimed New York rock group TV On the Radio. He died little more than a week after the...
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