Libya: Gaddafi forces 'using cluster bombs in Misrata'
Human Rights Watch say Gaddafi's army has fired the weapons, which cause massive damage and are banned in most statesForces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have fired cluster bombs into residential areas of...
View ArticleIMF poised to scrutinise George Osborne's policies for UK economy
Britain, the US and China to feature on checklist of countries that pose a risk to the world economyGeorge Osborne's deficit plan will come under regular scrutiny by the International Monetary Fund...
View ArticleScottish polar bear put down
Former Edinburgh Zoo favourite Mercedes, 30, put down after suffering 'age-related health problems'A 30-year-old polar bear at a wildlife park in Scotland has been put down after suffering "age-related...
View ArticleSudoku 236 killer
Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a...
View ArticleSudoku 1,849 hard
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 09068 338 228. Calls cost 60p per minute at all times. Service...
View ArticleGlencore: Miner to major | Editorial
If you haven't yet heard of Glencore, you will – and you certainly should, if only because your pension fund is likely to buy into the company soonIf you haven't yet heard of Glencore, you will – and...
View ArticleInternational law: Regime unchanged | Editorial
Another difference between the Bush years and the age of Obama is that the latter has at least some regard for the rule of international lawIn a joint newspaper article yesterday, the US president and...
View ArticleUnthinkable? Implement the Easter Act 1928 | Editorial
The act sets down that Easter Sunday must fall on a fixed day – the Sunday following the second Saturday in AprilThree years ago, Easter Sunday fell on 23 March. This year, it is more than a month...
View ArticleLetters: The pursuit of happiness
Messrs Cameron, Clegg and Osborne have all read The Spirit Level, in which Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett present their research showing that large inequalities of wealth and income within a...
View ArticleThe Saturday interview: Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma's tireless political campaigner talks about rebuilding the National League for Democracy, the revolutionary power of social media and her love of The Grateful DeadThe high fence is back,...
View ArticleThird man charged over shooting of five-year-old
South London teenager charged with attempted murder after Stockwell shooting of Thusha KamaleswaranA third man has been charged with the attempted murder of five-year-old Thusha Kamaleswaran and Roshan...
View ArticleGood to meet you: Sandy Wilkie
A reader who discovered the Guardian during the miners' strike talks about what it was that kept him readingIt was the Guardian's coverage of the miners' strike that provided a political awakening for...
View ArticleThis week: Andrew Lansley, Gillian Duffy, Mark Zuckerberg
Lucy Mangan on the people in the media spotlight in the past seven daysNursing his woundsAndrew LansleyA 99% no-confidence vote from the Royal College of Nursing … you'd have to have a heart of stone...
View ArticleWeatherwatch: Dorothy Wordsworth on daffodils
It was a "threatening, misty morning – but mild," on 15 April 1802, when William and Dorothy Wordsworth set off. "The wind seized our breath the Lake was rough," wrote the poet's sister, a little...
View ArticleLetters: He holds us with his glittering eye
What is wrong with your Tom Meltzer that he can't remember even the first verse of the Ancient Mariner without taking lessons from a professional mnemonist (Memories are made of this, G2, 14 April)....
View ArticleLetters: Still time to bolster weak bank reforms
Martin Kettle (The banks needed Scarman's cold eye, but Vickers blinked, 15 April) can rest assured that root-and-branch reform of the British banking system has not been forgotten about, despite a...
View ArticleLetters: People who lived in glass houses and climate change
As the researcher on the 1972 BBC1 series Mistress of Hardwick, which recreated life inside the Countess of Shrewsbury's magnificent Elizabethan mansion, I was intrigued by Lucy Worsley's suggestion...
View ArticleLetters: Harp heaven
Well done on your appreciation of Blas Flor and the Paraguayan harp (In praise of…, 14 April) but what about the Edinburgh international harp festival, which has just finished? As one new to this...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications
• Owing to updates in a report of the arrest of a third News of the World reporter in connection with allegations of telephone hacking, later editions stated that "detectives also conducted a search in...
View ArticleCountry Diary: Blissford, New Forest
When many people talk of bees they mean the honeybee, but our countryside is also home to a large number of its cousins. It was one of these that I heard about a few days ago. The insects had...
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