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Schools failing to help girls escape career stereotypes, says Ofsted
Survey finds less than 10% of placements are 'unconventional', with majority in education, hair and beauty, office and shopsMixed-sex schools are not doing enough to promote girls' confidence and...
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Australia leases out mineral-rich land as China's hunger for resources grows
No longer content with buying iron ore and coal from Australian firms, China is building its own mining operations in the countryChina is leasing huge areas of land in Australia to secure a vital...
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Consumer spending hit by rise in inflation
• BRC-KPMG retail sales monitor shows biggest fall in total sales since survey began in 1995• RICS figures show house prices outside London are continuing to fallBritain's retailers are enduring the...
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Nick Clegg: regional growth fund will create thousands of jobs
• General Motors successful in bid for support to build new Vivaro van in Luton• Funding for regional growth has been cut by two-thirds, claims LabourNick Clegg said today that more than 100,000 jobs...
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Response: It is better to liberally intervene than stand by and do nothing |...
National sovereignty has to be overridden to avoid the horrors of crimes against humanitySimon Jenkins writes on the shortcomings of liberal interventionism in Libya (By merely bolstering the weaker...
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Government signs over civil service pensions to private-sector mutual
The pensions of 1.5 million civil servants will be managed as a collective investment with the government retaining liabilityThe pension scheme for 1.5 million civil servants in Britain is to be run by...
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Justice is impossible if we cannot trust police forces to tell the truth |...
From Blair Peach to Ian Tomlinson, there is only one remedy for police officers found to have made false statements: sack them'From the information I had, that is what I believed happened to me." So...
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Why shouldn't Murdoch get what he wants? Others do | Peter Wilby
The phone-hacking affair is just one example of how politicians have lost the will and moral compass to control corporate interestsImagine reports that, during the 2010 election, members of Labour's...
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Minsk metro bomb could be work of outsiders, says president
President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, says deadly blast in Minsk metro station was an attempt to destabilize the countryThe president of Belarus says a blast that tore through a crowded metro...
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Moussa Koussa to leave Britain
Defector expected to attend Libya conference in Qatar after being questioned over Lockerbie bombingMoussa Koussa, the former Libyan foreign minister who defected to Britain, is being allowed to leave...
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Emerson String Quartet – review
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThomas Adès's The Four Quarters formed the centrepiece of this programme by the Emersons, who are currently touring the work following their premiere performance in Carnegie...
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From the archive, 12 April 1848: The Chartist meeting in London
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 12 April 1848Kennington Common was the appointed place of meeting and was the great centre of attraction to all who felt an interest in the...
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CPI inflation leak rumours under investigation
ONS confirms it is investigating claims that March inflation figures were leaked before their releaseRumours that Wednesday's inflation data was leaked before its release at 9.30am, potentially making...
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Swaziland pro-democracy protests met by teargas and water cannon
Riot police beat demonstrators as union leaders and journalists are arrested in Africa's last absolute monarchyRiot police have fired teargas and water cannons, beaten demonstrators and arrested union...
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Austrian brothel owner has last laugh after nine-year planning battle
Villa Erotica opens in St Andrä im Lungau after overcoming objections ranging from moral concerns to low ceilingsDoes prostitution count as "heavy physical work"? Will the presence of a brothel next to...
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French veil ban: First woman fined for wearing niqab
Woman, 28, stopped by police in shopping centre car park north-west of Paris on day ban came into forcePolice have fined a woman in a shopping centre car park outside Paris for wearing a niqab, or...
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Heroin overdose antidote should be given to prisoners, ministers told
The government's official drug advisers say 'magic medicine' naxolone could save 500 lives a yearThe government's official drug advisers are urging ministers to provide all prisoners at risk of...
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Yuri Gagarin's brush with royalty revealed in new biography
Book claims Russian cosmonaut touched the Queen's leg to ensure she was real during visit to Buckingham PalaceYuri Gagarin, the first man in space, risked an extraordinary breach in protocol when he...
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India turns against hunger striker over 'anti-poor' comments
Anna Hazare, who fasted in protest at corruption, says ordinary Indians 'don't understand the value of their vote'At the weekend he was India's hero, the man who had followed the example of Mahatma...
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