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Libya: 'mission creep' claims as UK sends in military advisers

Rebels fighting Gaddafi regime to get military advice on the ground as MPs warn of 'mission creep'The British government has come under intense pressure over its response to the crisis in Libya as...

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Royal wedding: two protests planned as police consider pre-emptive arrests

Scotland Yard to mount one of its biggest ever operations on the day of the wedding amid fears of disruption by activistsPolice across the country could make pre-emptive strikes in the coming days to...

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Formula One subject of takeover talks by Rupert Murdoch and Carlos Slim

News Corp in talks to make joint bid for one of few sports where it has no foothold with Mexican magnate Carlos SlimRupert Murdoch's News Corp is in talks with Carlos Slim, said to be the world's...

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F1 executive Bernie Ecclestone will keep Rupert Murdoch guessing to the end

A move to Sky is by no means certain, but TV rights negotiator Bernie Ecclestone is adept at the unexpectedBernie Ecclestone has long been adept at the unexpected in business; his decision to sell the...

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Gordon Brown calls for reform of global bodies including IMF and UN

Former PM sidesteps David Cameron's criticisms and dodges speculation about his ambition to lead the IMFGordon Brown has called for the wholesale reform of the world's most powerful bodies, including...

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IMF: In the running

Since the 1940s, an American has run the World Bank and a European has been managing director of the International Monetary FundSince the 1940s, an American has run the World Bank and a European has...

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Gaza: Hamas arrests two after abduction and murder

Hamas said it has arrested two militants suspected of killing an Italian, Vittorio ArrigoniHamas said it has arrested two militants suspected of killing an Italian last week, in a shootout in Gaza in...

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Thor – review

It's overlong and all over the place but there's something weirdly charming about Kenneth Branagh's superhero epicBy the glittering gates of Asgard, Kenneth Branagh's big-screen Thor is a rum old...

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HIV study claims one in eight children resistant to drugs

First major study of young people with HIV questions the suitability of anti-retroviral drugs for young sufferersOne in eight children born with HIV becomes resistant to the three main classes of drugs...

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NHS chiefs predict ward closures and job cuts

King's Fund report finds NHS finance directors pessimistic about health service reforms as waiting times riseNHS finance directors predict ward closures, job cuts and other reductions as they struggle...

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Letters: School music coda

Last Saturday marked one of the saddest days of my professional life. The evening concert that took place at the Bedford Corn Exchange was the swan song for one of Britain's finest and oldest youth...

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Letters: Profiting from university cuts

I have to strongly disagree with David Willetts's claim that more competition from private universities will create a "more open, dynamic and diverse higher education system" (Universities fear private...

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Letters: Democratic abuses in Azerbaijan

To mark the anniversary of the imprisonment of award-winning investigative journalist Eynulla Fatullayev and to express solidarity with the scores of Azerbaijani citizens arrested, attacked and...

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Letters: Mutual interest in promoting co-operatives

John Harris seems beguiled by the Tories' rhetorical support for co-operatives and by Jesse Norman MP, the chair of Conservative Co-operatives (From John Lewis to workers' co-ops: these Tories love...

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Letters: Tate should end its relationship with BP

In the year since its catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP has massively ramped up its investment in controversial tar sands extraction in Canada, has been shown to have been a key backer...

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Letters: Potluck politics

It is significant that Polly Toynbee (A no to AV hurts Clegg. But a yes whacks the organ grinder, 19 April) now majors not on rational arguments for a flawed system, but on the likability of the two...

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Corrections and clarifications

• A report on the latest attack on Andres Serrano's controversial work Piss Christ inadvertently referred to the late US Republican Senator Jesse Helms as Jesse James (Hit with a hammer and slashed...

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Libya: Mission creak | Editorial

With boots already on the ground, Nato's military involvement in the civil war in Libya is deepening step by stepThe 20 British and French military advisers being sent to help the rebels in Benghazi do...

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US fiscal policy: In place of prudence | Editorial

It is not about the right deficit for this year or next. It is about the need for a semblance of balance over the decades aheadIn Britain, deficit denial is a charge the right lays at the door of the...

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In praise of … the M1 | Editorial

The spine of England and a seemingly unavoidable element of any road journey between north and southThe M1 is one of those bits of Britain that everyone knows but nobody likes. Details of its route...

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