Consumers 'ignoring use-by dates to save money on food'
Government food watchdog says people are risking food poisoning by keeping leftovers for longer than recommendedConsumers trying to save money are gambling with their health and risking food poisoning...
View ArticleTony awards 2012 – in pictures
The cream of the American theatre industry attends the Tony awards in New York
View ArticleHenrique Capriles launches run against Chávez for Venezuelan presidency
Opposition leader formally enters campaign, marching alongside thousands of supporters to register at elections councilHenrique Capriles, the Venezuelan opposition leader, has marched with thousands of...
View ArticleCollector gets Annie Oakley's gun for $143,500
Wild west sharpshooter's Parker Brothers shotgun and Stetson hat are part of memorabilia auction by great-grandniecesA shotgun that once belonged to the western sharpshooter and entertainer Annie...
View ArticleSpain bailout lifts Asian markets
Announcement that eurozone will lend Spain up to €100bn is followed by jump in shares, commodities and euro currencyShares, commodities and the euro have jumped in Asian trading after eurozone finance...
View ArticleTony Awards 2012 – live coverage
Once scoops nine awards ahead of favourite Newsies, while British comic James Corden wins best actor in a play7.00pm: David – Hello everyone. This is David Cote, theater editor and chief drama critic...
View ArticleLady Gaga hit on head by pole at Auckland concert
Videos show singer being struck by pole during New Zealand performance – she was 'concussed but finished show'Lady Gaga has been struck on the head by a pole while performing a concert in New Zealand....
View ArticleTony awards 2012: Once scoops eight gongs on night of upsets
Disney's Newsies is beaten to best musical and British comic actor James Corden wins best actor in a playOnce, the intimate and melancholy bar-room musical that has charmed Broadway audiences and...
View ArticleTony awards 2012: full list of winners
Winners in the various categories of the Tonys, US theatre's annual awardsHere are the winners of Sunday's 2012 annual Tony awards. Best musical: Once Best book of a musical: Enda Walsh, Once Best...
View ArticleSprouting success in Senegal: trees offer growing solution to Sahel
Farmers are finding that restoring soils with trees boosts crops in a region where drought has caused successive food crisesAbdou Sall, 62, is a farmer in Kaffrine in Senegal's peanut basin. Peanut...
View ArticleFrom the archive, 11 June 1982: Climbers relive Everest disaster
Survivors of the expedition to conquer the world's highest peak describe how two men vanishedChris Bonington said yesterday that he would not lead another attempt on Mount Everest after the recent...
View ArticleMiliband makes some connections in Bradford, but fails on others
Labour leader Ed Miliband took part in a weekend question and answer session with approximately 80 women at the National Media Museum organised by the Bradford Muslim Women's Council. JUST West...
View ArticleMore airlines will go bust, Iata warns
International Air Transport Association's bleak forecast of losses of more than $1bn for European airlinesMore European airlines will go bust this year as their collective losses top $1bn (£642m),...
View ArticleJohn Donne, priest and poet, part 4: two kinds of judgment | Roz Kaveney
Donne reconciles the split in belief of a Last Judgment and the concept from Egypt of the dead standing before their judgeOne of the things that divides agnostics is the attitudes it is possible to...
View ArticlePaving a political path to Bradford's Muslim women
Ed Miliband was left in no doubt that a vigorous and down-to-earth group of voters no longer accepts that men can do the speaking for them. Irna Qureshi was there and here's her take on the Labour...
View ArticleSyrian National Council picks new leader
Kurdish academic Abdulbaset Sieda given task of reconciling rival factions within the SNCA leading Syrian opposition group has picked a secular Kurd as its new leader, after criticism that the former...
View ArticleSpanish bailout lifts world stock markets
Shares in London and major European markets move sharply higher and the euro climbs to a three-week highGlobal stock markets surged in relief on Monday after weekend news of Spain's €100bn (£81bn)...
View ArticleWhy has there been no 'Palestinian spring'? One word: Oslo | Ben White
The 1993 accords turned the Palestinian struggle from one of resisting Israeli colonialism into occupation managementEver since the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt began a regional earthquake 18 months...
View ArticleAung San Suu Kyi arrives in Switzerland
Burma's opposition leader has arrived in Geneva, at the beginning of a 17-day tour of five countries, including the UKAung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Switzerland as European leaders prepare to roll out...
View ArticleRio+20 scientists call for population action
Joint report by 105 institutions urges negotiators to drop political inhibitions and confront rising global population and consumptionThe Rio+20 Earth summit must take decisive action on population and...
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