The huge, rectangular box lands with a thump. Two minutes later colleagues scramble around my desk. “Oohs!” and “aahs!” and a collective “mmm” follow. http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/hamming-it-up-londons-best-restaurants-for-jamon-9941617.html
Breaking through just after The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays founded Madchester and before they could have found greater fame as a Sixties-influenced Britpop band, Oldham’s Inspiral Carpets have ended up as more of an indie rock footnote. They had a number two album, Life, in 1990, and were Reading Festival headliners the same […]
Yevgeny Schwartz, who died in 1958, was a brilliantly astute observer of Soviet tyranny. But he has never been a household name in Britain. The Dragon, presented here in a new adaptation by Daniel Goldman and the Tangram Theatre Company, is probably his best-known work — a political fable dating from the Forties that […]
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A woman has died after a fire broke out at a block of flats in south London. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/woman-dies-in-fire-at-south-london-block-of-flats-9951890.html
Manager Arsene Wenger remains confident 2015 can turn out to be a vintage year for Arsenal. http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsene-wenger-targets-return-to-top-four-on-new-years-day-as-arsenal-keep-eyes-on-title-race-9951836.html
Union officials are to hold crunch talks with administrators today to try to save thousands of jobs following the collapse of parcel delivery firm City Link. http://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/talks-held-in-bid-to-save-thousands-of-city-link-jobs-9946229.html
Gwyneth Paltrow split from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin in March after nine years of marriage and though she admits it may have been “better” to stay together for the sake of their children, Apple, 10, and eight-year-old Moses, she is happy with how close they have grown since deciding to end their union. […]
Traditionally, the only people left in central London on Christmas Day are dozens of enterprising photographers waiting for each other to move out of the way so they can get the perfect shot of an “eerily deserted” Oxford Street. http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/techugees-in-crimbo-limbo-the-startup-workers-and-assorted-media-mates-who-wont-be-home-for-christmas-9943901.html
It has been a busy Christmas shopping season — but will it have been a profitable one for retailers? We are in a completely different environment to 10 years ago. Just as Lloyds Bank’s consumer spending power index reached a new high for November, a report by GfK market research found consumer confidence at […]
Police are “urgently” hunting for a mother and her newborn baby daughter who went missing from a maternity hospital last night. Charlotte Bevan, 30, left Bristol Maternity Hospital between 8.30pm and 9pm with her four-day-old baby girl, … http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/03/missing-mother-newborn-baby_n_6259862.html?utm_hp_ref=uk
Ukip has insisted Nigel Farage “misspoke” after he appeared to disown the party’s policy of banning sex education in primary schools. Mr Farage was asked about the proposal – unveiled by his deputy Paul Nuttall at the party’s conference in … http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/02/farage-forced-to-backtrack-after-denying-ukip-policy-on-sex-education-in-primary-schools_n_6257114.html?utm_hp_ref=uk
Russell Brand has vowed to sue The Sun newspaper after it “branded” the comic a hypocrite in a convoluted story about the amount of tax his landlord pays. On his Twitter account, Brand said he planned to take legal action over the piece… http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/03/russell-brand-the-sun_n_6259906.html?1417599448&utm_hp_ref=uk
A NATO commander says Russian tanks, Russian artillery, Russian air defense systems and Russian troops have crossed the border into Ukraine. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/12/world/europe/ukraine-russia-unrest/index.html?hpt=ieu_c2
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) — The last two Americans being held captive by North Korea have returned home. http://news.yahoo.com/kenneth-bae-just-want-thank-091110468.html
Wary neighbours, police watches and food left outside the house — the lot of the families quarantined due to Ebola in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown is a mix of ostracism and excruciating boredom. Amasoula Kagome, 19, knows the pain of Ebola only too well. http://news.yahoo.com/families-ebola-hit-leone-face-long-wait-freedom-230932447.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the short-on-specifics elections just ended, the economy was the main issue, Republicans ran against President Barack Obama and Democrats campaigned against the billionaire Koch brothers. http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-gop-vague-mandate-fix-economy-133151037.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — A pristine distant comet created a once-in-8-million-year fireworks show above Mars last month. But no one got to see it live. http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-comet-bombarded-mars-sky-meteor-shower-200846341.html
Online hacktivists are holding a “hackathon” spanning two days to honor the would-have-been birthday of dead computer programmer and hacktivist Aaron Swartz. http://rt.com/news/203575-aaron-swartz-global-hackathon/
A 24-hour general strike has been declared by Israeli Arabs and protesters and thousands of people took to the streets in Kafr Kana in the country’s north after Israeli police violated protocol, shooting and killing a man during a raid. http://rt.com/news/203555-israel-arab-police-shooting/
British authorities overnight arrested four men for suspected terrorism, police said on Friday, adding to the scores that have been rounded up in recent months as part of efforts to prevent homegrown attacks. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/07/world/europe/uk-terror-arrests/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
“We’re on your side,” Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi tells 9-year-old fan grieving the loss of his grandmother. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/08/showbiz/peter-capaldi-video/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
A woman wanted to pay it forward so she gave a waitress in Colorado a ,000 tip. KUSA reports. http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/11/06/pkg-waitress-gets-generous-tip.kusa.html?hpt=hp_t3
An unnamed British banker describes how he left Hong Kong to escape the pull of the drugs scene. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/03/world/asia/hong-kong-banker-drugs/index.html?hpt=hp_t5