The Guardian:
"Twenty eight years and 91 days!" said the elated east Berliner I met walking up the Friedrichstrasse soon after the wall was breached. On the day the Berlin Wall went up, 13 August 1961, his parents had wanted to go to the cinema in west Berlin, but he, then aged 11, had been too tired. Next morning, they awoke to the soun (Read More)
Ars Technica:
That warm flood of outrage through the veins is addicting—but it also runs the danger of being addictive, and of being too easy. As the news broke this week about the "Internet provisions" in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), it didn't take long for the outrage to (Read More)
mashable:
We know there are a lot of interesting and unique uses for Twitter. We’ve seen Twitter used for customer service, tweets to monitor power usage, and even 140 character marriage proposals, but we never thought about it being used to quickly respond to incidents such as a kid being bit by an otter.Earlier today, a group of Tw (Read More)
The Guardian:
Bristol Old VicDrum, PlymouthBarbican, London Vanya snarls. Serebryakov is querulous. Sonya snaps. And Yelena throws her sullenness around the stage as if it were a discarded frock. The keynote in Andrew Hilton's incisive production of Uncle Vanya is anger. The decorative languor – muffled sighs over the samovar – once thou (Read More)
New York Times:
As major news erupted in Texas, a brand new 12-person Web-based newsroom had its debut as a nonprofit covering state government.
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The Guardian:
2006• August Anti-terror police arrest the News of the World royal editor, Clive Goodman, on suspicion of illegally intercepting phone calls. Glenn Mulcaire, a footballer turned detective, is also arrested. Scotland Yard had previously been contacted by members of the royal household who suspected their mobile phones had be (Read More)
The Guardian:
Brazilian government starts investigation into how radio comedian impersonated president Luiz Inácio da Silva in Rio interviewWhen Brazil's notoriously interview-shy president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, offered journalists from Angolan state radio an exclusive telephone chat, they should probably have smelled a rat.When Lu (Read More)
The Guardian:
The O2 Arena,London SE10Can it really only be five years since I saw Michael McIntyre perform at the Edinburgh fringe, in one of its smallest, sweatiest venues, to an audience of about 25 people? Now look at him, striding about the stage at the O2 in front of video screens higher than a house, on his national arena tour (th (Read More)
The Guardian:
Royal Opera House, LondonBallet makes no ethnic distinctions. We accept without question a Caribbean Romeo or an Asian Juliet. George Balanchine's abstract work Agon, however, has remained subtly colour-conscious since the piece's New York premiere in 1957, when the choreographer caused a frisson by casting the black dancer (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Gerrard and Torres show progress with injuries• Aurelio, Skrtel and Riera all expected to returnLiverpool's fans will finally get the chance tomorrow to welcome £20m Alberto Aquilani to Anfield. The Italy international, signed in August, has been recovering from a knee operation since.Now, having also overcome a recent vi (Read More)
The Guardian:
Eliza Lynch was depicted by Brazil as a warmongering manipulator after South America's bloodiest war. Irish authors present a more sympathetic accountWhen Brazil won the bloodiest war in South America's history it cast itself as the victim and Eliza Lynch as one of the chief villains.The unofficial "Queen of Paraguay", said (Read More)
The Guardian:
• 80% of Camelot consortium up for sale• Third attempt for the People's LotteryRichard Branson and a number of private equity firms are among potential bidders jostling to buy the 80% of national lottery operator Camelot that has been put up for sale – nine years after the entrepreneur's outfit, the People's Lottery, last f (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Stoner's crash costs him possible second in championship• Champion Valentino Rossi takes second behind PedrosaDani Pedrosa won the final race of the MotoGP season to claim third in the final standings ahead of Casey Stoner.World champion Valentino Rossi was second in the race at Valencia ahead of Fiat Yamaha team-mate Jor (Read More)
New York Times:
Martim Avillez Figueiredo, the editor of i, short for “informação,” has organized his paper with opinion pieces first and all the best news in the front.
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Senior commanders say public not convinced British troops can succeed and that purpose of mission remains unclearGrowing frustration among Britain's most senior military commanders over the government's handling of the war in Afghanistan burst into the open today as they stepped up plans to restrict the number of areas in w (Read More)