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John Sweeney convicted of canal murders as police warn of more bodies
Fears that carpenter who killed two ex-girlfriends may have murdered three more women and two German menA Liverpool-born carpenter has been convicted of murdering two girlfriends and dumping their...
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Air France plane crash victims found after two-year search
Robot submarines reveal wreckage with bodies of passengers who died when Flight AF477 went down on its way to RioThe images from the ocean bed were a cause for celebration for the team of investigators...
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Gurkhas fail to escape as MoD reveals redundancies
Cuts could hit those on Afghan and Libyan duty, while wounded soldiers are safe – but only until they recover Gurkhas will be among those losing their jobs in the army's first round of redundancies,...
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A full-scale punch-up at the Taverns remains a distinct possibility
Bondholders could use lawyers to try to frustrate chief exec Ian Dyson's plan to sell 2,200 pubsA fortnight after Ian Dyson announced a demerger at Punch Taverns, two things are clear. First, the...
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Martin Luther King – a whitewash can be right | John Sutherland
Viewers would probably prefer a warts-and-all Dr King biopic. But his legacy is worth protectingQuestion: what do Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Martin Luther King Jr have in common? Answer: both are...
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Laurent Gbagbo's forces fired on by UN attack helicopters
Four missiles reported to have been fired at a military base in Abidjan as UN seeks to stop weapons being used to hit civiliansUN helicopters have attacked President Laurent Gbagbo's forces in Ivory...
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Barack Obama tweets the start to his 2012 re-election campaign
US president turns to Twitter and Facebook to kickstart his push for re-election to the White House next yearAmerican presidents traditionally announce their decision to run for re-election from the...
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The Hard Man – review
King's, EdinburghWhen Tom McGrath died two years ago, he was commemorated for many things: editor of International Times, counter-culture poet, founder of two Glasgow theatres and musical director for...
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Air France flight 447: should the wreckage be raised?
The bodies of the air crash victims have spent nearly two years in the water, but may be well preservedThe recovery and identification of bodies from the sunken wreckage of Air France flight 447 may...
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Doug Stanhope – review
Leicester Square theatre, LondonTonight sees bilious US comic Doug Stanhope at his best and worst. When his scorn and loathing is intelligently applied, he tears away the veil of socialised politesse,...
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Ian Tomlinson inquest hears police officer 'feared for his life'
PC Simon Harwood tells inquest how G20 protesters turned hostile when he tried to arrest a demonstrator in 2009The police officer who pushed Ian Tomlinson to the ground during the G20 protests two...
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Poland's artists now speak to the world | Dorota Maslowska
Blood and mother and the weeping birch tree – that's the old Poland. Post-communism, our problems are more universalFor the last 20 years the Polish people have been riding a merry-go-round of economic...
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Boesch/Martineau – review
Wigmore Hall, LondonThe brainchild of pianist Malcolm Martineau, the Wigmore's Decade by Decade series reached the 1870s with a recital by baritone Florian Boesch that was prevented by circumstances...
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Stockwell shooting: second teenager charged with attempted murder
Kazeem Kolawole, 18, charged over shootings of five-year-old Thusha Kamaleswaran and a bystander at south London shopA second teenager has been charged with two counts of attempted murder following the...
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Horsepower – review
Finsbury Park, LondonComing to Zippos Circus after years of seeing aerial dance and other tricks performed on a theatre stage feels a shock. Modern circus companies, and the directors who incorporate...
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The Mill: City of Dreams – review
Drummonds Mill, BradfordPresented by Freedom Studios, The Mill is an example of the increasingly prevalent format of what might be termed woodwork theatre: whereby the audience is invited to explore an...
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A&E waiting times increase sharply
Number of patients having to wait more than four hours up 63% since Andrew Lansley scrapped Labour's waiting time targetsThe number of patients waiting more than four hours for treatment in accident...
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Andrew Lansley left isolated as NHS backlash wrongfoots ministers
Health secretary discomfited as government experiences collective wobble over plans to hand budget to consortiumsAndrew Lansley cut a lonely figure in the House of Commons as he announced that the...
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Soaring oil prices could put brakes on UK's manufacturing boom
With unrest in Yemen and Libya pushing up price of crude, British firms expect their turnover and profit to slowOil prices hit a two-and-a-half-year high yesterday amid warnings that the soaring cost...
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Reforms threaten transparency and accountability, MPs warn
Coalition plans for NHS, schools, local authorities and Whitehall 'could harm parliament's ability to hold government to account'The government's reforms to the NHS, schools, local authorities and...
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