guardian.co.uk Film:
CinemaScore is the audience-reaction research tool of choice for the film industry - because of its uncanny accuracy. Not good news for Richard Kelly, whose latest film The Box has just been awarded a rare-as-Ed-Wood's-teeth F-gradeThere can be no doubt that Cameron Diaz's new film has flopped. The Box, a horror thriller ad (Read More)
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With rain forecast for much of the country this weekend, we recommend 10 indoor attractions across the UK1. City of Caves, NottinghamDeep under Nottingham city runs a fascinating network of Anglo-Saxon sandstone caves. Visitors can explore the tunnels and see how they were variously used over the centuries; experience the (Read More)
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Uganda news round-up: Anti-homosexuality bill 'will harm country's fight against HIV/Aids'; first lady calls for men to better support their wives through childbirth; the World Cup comes to UgandaA Ugandan government bill that is advocating the death penalty for gay people will hinder the country's fight against HIV/Aids, l (Read More)
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The subject reliably grabs attention, but the words in a good story are usually getting up to all sorts of other stuffNow then, Best Beloveds: the short story. If we're sensible and care about prose, we will agree that it's a fine, exacting and beautiful form. It's perhaps not huge and showy, like making the Eiffel Tower di (Read More)
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In the first of our new 'Friday debate' blogposts, Lia Leendertz puts the case for human waste as the missing ingredient in our compost heapsA compost toilet. Photograph: 4RB/Flickr/Some rights reservedFollowing the success of our controversial blogpost of last Friday, here at the Guardian gardening blog we've decided to in (Read More)
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Financial crisis beckons as public spending cuts loom and universities face intense competition from overseasUniversities are facing a new funding crisis with looming public spending cuts and intense competition from overseas, according to the man employed by the government to allocate money to higher education in England.S (Read More)
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Hundreds of emails and documents exchanged between world's leading climate scientists stolen by hackers and leaked onlineHundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world's leading climate scientists over the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and leaked online. The computer files (Read More)
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Denuclearisation will only come when bridges have been built with Pyongyang and it feels firmly set on a new economic courseNegotiations over the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula look set to resume. Sadly, they are unlikely to end soon. Talk of a "grand bargain" remains just that – talk.Trust between North Korea and (Read More)
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• Swelling population 'risks demographic disaster'• Cynicism and disaffection among disturbing findingsPakistan faces a "demographic disaster" if its leaders fail to invest in a youth population that is disturbingly cynical about democracy, has greatest faith in the military and is resentful of western interference, accordi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Another nasty decision for Nice this week, as the health service's rationing agency turned down Nexavar, which treats liver cancer. Everyone agrees it provides extra months, but it will not be administered – except to the rich – as it fails to provide enough extra months for the money. The watertight logic is that cash blow (Read More)
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In the fourth of a series of Q&As with the shortlisted authors, Reif Larsen discusses his novelWhat moved you to write an illustrated account of a child prodigy's adventuresome life?This book, like most creations, grew in fits and starts. Maybe some writers already have the master plan for their Bildungsroman before they ev (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
With five biological daughters, Anita Tedaldi was keen to adopt a little boy. But little did she ever imagine that it might not work outThe first time I considered giving up my baby, Dan, I was lying alone in bed. It was midnight, my children were asleep and my husband, a serviceman, was deployed away from home. I was so ta (Read More)
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Ask children instead of ignoring their feelings, says report on rightsToday is the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.But according to a hard-hitting report by the Children's Rights Alliance, young people's rights to privacy and family life are being breached by local authorities who do not con (Read More)
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Apparently, the more you drink the greater your protection against heart disease. Does that mean we should all be drinking at least a bottle of wine a day?The case against drinking alcohol has been promoted for so long and with such vigour that even I have started to wonder whether I shouldn't perhaps give it up altogether. (Read More)
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Labiaplasties can be risky, yet the number carried out on the NHS rose by 70% last yearBefore she had even turned 10, Anna had started worrying that there was something physically wrong with her. "I would look at other girls in the shower, and think, 'They don't have what I have,'" she says, and wearing a pair of jeans be (Read More)