Clik here to view.
Corrections and clarifications
• A story listed several people who may be eligible for redress under the terms of News International's fund to compensate people who have evidence their phones were illegally hacked by the News of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letters: From little Acorns
Thirty years ago, in 1981, the BBC Microcomputer was launched. Not only did it teach IT skills to a generation of schoolchildren, but it also helped create an ecosystem of hi-tech companies in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letters: Billingsgate bylaws
Jon Cruddas and Maurice Glasman (Theft in a City state, 6 April) fail to understand the sound business reasons for our plans to revoke outdated bylaws governing Billingsgate market. Throughout the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letters: Banns banjaxed
The 1955 film Marty was certainly "a 'sleeper' hit" but it was hardly "the first film to which that epithet was applied" (Walter Seltzer obituary, 6 April). The showbiz trade paper Variety was using...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In praise of … the Commons foreign affairs committee | Editorial
Its crucial report on cuts to the BBC World Service is critical and independent, and will put the coalition to the testBack in the bad old days before 2010, when party whips still controlled the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Happiness: When smiling becomes policy | Editorial
More and more politicians are adopting the infant discipline of happiness economics - but they may face painful questions"Man does not strive after happiness; only the Englishman does that," wrote...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
Walking in bright sunshine, I felt the pulse of spring through all the white flowers around me. Something drew me to take a closer look at a white deadnettle on a hedge bank and I could see into the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Japan: No time to mourn | Editorial
It may take more than just one speech by the prime minister, Naoto Kan, to persuade Japan that the worst is now overJapan has been shaken by more than 400 strong aftershocks since the earthquake and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pollutionwatch: Dry weather brings poor air
The unusual weather patterns that made this March one of the driest on record also caused prolonged pollution problems. Frequent easterly winds brought air across some of the most industrial and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Esther Addley's diary
Hallelujah! Church sees the light in Bishop Nick• Gosh, it's nice to be right, and we say that with all the humility appropriate to a Diary blessed with prophetic insight into the mysterious ways of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review | Theatre | Moonlight | Donmar Warehouse | Michael Billington
Donmar Warehouse, LondonI find it strange that one of Harold Pinter's most accessible plays has had to wait 18 years for a major London revival. It deals, after all, with mortality, love, loss and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sam Leith and India Knight in running for Wodehouse book prize
Winner gets a collection of PG Wodehouse novels, a jeroboam of champagne and the honour of naming a pigA first novel by the journalist and critic Sam Leith is on the shortlist for the most unusual of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Czech leader Vaclav Klaus caught stealing pen on Chile trip
YouTube clip shows president pocketing semi-precious item during Latin American meetingAccompanied by a backing track straight out of a bank heist film, a video clip showing the Czech Republic's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mubarak suffers reported heart attack while facing Egypt's corruption claims
Ousted Egyptian president receiving hospital treatment in Sharm El Sheikh after subpoenas issued to him and his sonsThe ousted Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, was taken to hospital yesterday,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BNP member in line to become Padiham mayor
John Cave appointed deputy mayor of Padiham, on edge of Burnley, and is likely to step up to mayor in a year's timeThe British National party expects to see one of its members become mayor of a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In the GPs' chair | Peter Kandela
There's little alternative to pills for our depressed patients. Where do they, and we, go for support?Long before the trials of coalition government, Nick Clegg warned that Britain had become a "Prozac...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yes, Saif is a Gaddafi. But there's still a real reformer inside | Benjamin...
The dictator's son I know is torn between family and democracy. We must engage with Saif's better instincts, for Libya's sakeThe understandable but overwrought attacks on Saif Gaddafi that followed his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ai Weiwei 'was offered advisory role before his detention'
Artist was visited by officials at his studio who invited him to join Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, says aideArtist Ai Weiwei was invited by Chinese officials to join a political...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Syria protests escalate as thousands of women block major road
Coastal highway between two cities blocked by women and children demonstrating against government crackdownHundreds of women and children were blocking a main coastal highway in Syria to protest the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From the archive, 13 April 1945: Death of President Roosevelt
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 13 April 1945We announce with the deepest regret that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States since 1933, died yesterday...
View Article