The Guardian:
• This is a gesture we have to make, says Melchiot• 'We were embarrassed by the way we performed'Wigan's players have pledged to refund the ticket price for any of the club's fans who attended their side's 9-1 thrashing at the hands of Tottenham at White Hart Lane yesterday,The loss was a record defeat in Wigan's 31-year hi (Read More)
The Guardian:
Music executives in the UK are looking to the home of Abba for signs their declining sales can be stemmed by new lawsThank you for the music. Or rather thank you for paying for the music, to borrow from Abba.Record labels are pointing to the dramatic rise in Swedish music sales, just months after the country introduced anti (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Subscribe here for your own daily copy delivered to your inboxAND THE WINNER OF THE BEST SCREENPLAY GONG AT NEXT YEAR'S OSCARS IS ... The Fiver has never scored five goals in a proper football match, but once man-marked a man who bagged seven in 50 minutes before being stretchered off with swollen swingers and a fat lip, so (Read More)
The Guardian:
Have your say on all of the day's big stories, be sure to post your favourite links and also follow us on Twitter5.05pm: Apologies for the delay of the column, but our five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend blog is now live. JD4.15pm: The first of today's matches at the ATP World Tour finals has ended w (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Instead of targeting high-profile science communicators, climate deniers are now encouraging mistrust of those who collect and interpret global warming dataThe theft and web publication by climate change deniers of private emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit is an extremely worrying developmen (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
NEW YORK � Artist Nate Giorgio recalls the last time he saw Michael Jackson, just days before the singer's death.The pop icon wanted Giorgio to create dazzling murals of his children as well as artwork for his "This Is It" concerts, and Giorgio got out his pen during their talks. "I was doing little drawings on the s (Read More)
The Guardian:
Newspapers attack Russia's 'golden youth' after pensioner seriously hurt in crashSwiss police are investigating a crash in which a pensioner was seriously injured when his car was hit by a Lamborghini sports car being driven by a young Russian man who was allegedly racing three others along the banks of Lake Geneva.The driv (Read More)
Huffington Post:
An airplane engine humming crescendos in the background as polar bears drop out of the sky, slam to the ground and meet their bloody deaths. At first you may be wondering, why am I being subjected to this brutal imagery? It's because Plane Stupid has a message for you, and whether it's effective or not, it's shocking enoug (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Papers step up efforts to cover devastation caused by huge flooding - and pledge: 'We'll be here when everybody goes home'.Local newspapers in Cumbria have gone to extra lengths to provide essential information and coverage of the floods that have brought havoc to the region in recent days.The Times & Star, the weekly paper (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Fitch Ratings on Monday cut Mexico's foreign-currency rating to BBB from BBB+, moving the rating lower within the investment-grade class. The downgrade had been widely anticipated by analysts. Fitch said the global economic and financial crisis and falling oil production have accentuated weaknes (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Image via Sara Snow.Earlier this year, I had one of the best experiences of my life. I traveled to Kenya, Africa with a small team from the Micro-finance group, MicroPlace. I first became fired up with the idea of micro-lending a couple of years ago when my family decided to finance a bank and numerous micro-loans in lieu (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Fiorentina without Adrian Mutu and Stevan Jovetic• Lyon can secure top spot with a home winLiverpool's Champions League fate may be out of their hands but that is not to say it has already been decided. Fiorentina would need to beat Lyon at Stadio Artemio Franchi tomorrow night to be sure of reaching the knock-out stage a (Read More)
The Guardian:
Caroline Davies For parents too stretched to make sure their offspring are perfectly turned out at all times, it may just be the scientific cover they've been waiting for.They will now be able to answer the disapproving tuts of their more fastidious friends by pointing to research which gives biological backing to the old a (Read More)