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It was two days after the heaviest rainfall in British history and with more rain starting to fall some residents of Cockermouth were only just being rescued from their homes. Many were glad simply to have survived. Others were left wondering what could have been done to prevent such a disaster – and why crucial new flood d (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
The latest news and best bets from all the day's races around the countryRuby Walsh can engineer a third Betfair Chase victory for the brilliant Kauto Star (2.55) at Haydock Park this afternoon. The dual Gold Cup winner is a dependable performer, having won two-thirds of the 21 races he has contested (14 of which have been (Read More)
World News from Times Online:
There’s one sound I shall never forget about the revolution that bustled the Communists out of power in Czechoslovakia 20 years ago: the jangling of door keys. Every night for a week, crowds gathered in Prague’s Wenceslas Square. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Autumn InternationalsAMARK CUETO FULL-BACK – 7A natural fit at full-back. Sound under the high ball in testing conditions, but too often found himself surrounded by black shirts when he came back to the ground, which meant he conceded costly penalties.MATT BANAHAN WING – 5Contributed a lot up in the front line, breaking and (Read More)
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I first saw Shams Kareem rocking back and forth on the floor of her home in Baghdad last February. At the sound of a visitor, she stood up and fumbled along the wall with her arms stretched out. “Carry, carry,” she called. Then she nuzzled my neck and wrapped her arms around me. (Read More)
Ahmedabad-Cities-The Times of India:
Deftly using a chisel and a stick, making a characteristically musical sound, 35-year-old Mohammad Anees showcased the art of making wooden blocks. Unfortunately, this art is already dying a slow death. (Read More)
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When Maj Sjöwall and her partner Per Wahlöö started writing the Martin Beck detective series in Sweden in the 60s, they little realised that it would change the way we think about policemen for everIt might count as one of the most remarkable writing collaborations in the history of publishing. A man and a woman, a couple, (Read More)
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Lyttelton, LondonWH Auden, the Oxford oracle, is peeing into his washbasin. He's waiting for a rent boy to arrive in his college rooms; he's stuck over his stanzas; he looks not so much like a bag person as a crumpled plastic bag. A floor above him, Benjamin Britten, sleek as a whippet, is at the piano, with poker back and (Read More)
The Guardian:
She's Latin America's hottest singer with fans around the world. But in her native Colombia Shakira is as well known for her work with the country's poorest children. Euan Ferguson meets a popstar with real attitudeSomething very strange happens, in the company of Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoli, to cynicism. After a while, e (Read More)
The Guardian:
Halfway through a 50-year project to raise football's profile in America – and on the day David Beckham plays in the MLS Cup final – the men in charge are delightedThe American investors who are investing abroad should invest here." So said Sepp Blatter last summer when the Fifa president visited the United States and saw t (Read More)
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Many travel firms claim to be environmentally sound, but are they just cashing in? Here's how not to be taken for a ride…When you see some of the holidays masquerading as ecotourism you'd be forgiven for thinking the term "greenwash" was invented for the tourism industry. Oh, it was. In fact this pejoratively used hybrid wa (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Join a strange safari in the desert hunting, not rare animals, but an equally endangered prize – absolute silenceSeveral times each night I wake up. My first thought is usually that I am getting too old to sleep out, even in a proper sleeping bag and with a long padded Bedouin cushion between me and the ground.Then, during (Read More)