The Guardian:
US president says he is very close to making 'life and death' decision on extra troop deploymentBarack Obama will make an announcement on sending extra troops to Afghanistan "in the next several weeks", he said today, with hi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
• Dr Brooke Magnanti sold her body to fund a PhD • Not all sex workers are drug addicts, says charityShe had kept her identity secret for six years, defying millions of readers – and a host of literary experts – who had specu (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
When Stacie Lewis's daughter was born with brain damage, she and her husband Gareth began a journey into the unknown – starting in despair but ending in hopeThe nine months before my daughter, May, was born were the happiest (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Government plans to fast-track major projects pose a real threat to their action plan on global warming (UK's nuclear future is mapped out as race to tackle climate change hots up, 10 November). Reports on the government's na (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Study condemning UK energy strategy set to embarrass government as it prepares to unveil new climate change initiativeBritain's claim to be a world leader in green energy investment has been called into question by an authori (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Green filmmaker Franny Armstrong pays tribute to 'my knight on a shining bicycle'Boris Johnson rescued a woman from three "feral kids" who were wielding an iron bar, chasing them away on his bicycle, it emerged tonight.The ma (Read More)
The Guardian:
The scale of poverty in rural Africa remains hard to grasp, yet the human connection, so elusive at home, is palpableEvery time I visit Katine, in north-east Uganda, an image remains in the mind for months afterwards. In May, (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Facebook is having one-on-one meetings with some of its larger developers detailing a series of changes that could significantly affect the way applications are spread through the social network. They may go through some of t (Read More)
Huffington Post:
PHILADELPHIA — Florida left wing David Booth was taken off the ice on stretcher after a hard hit from Philadelphia captain Mike Richards, overshadowing the Flyers' easy victory over the Panthers on Saturday night.Danny Briere (Read More)
Mashable!:
Matt Silverman is a humorist, musician, and Googleophile from New York who labors to make the Internets funnier via The Sick Burn and his YouTube band The B’lights. For a laugh, follow him on Twitter.Most iPhone users know n (Read More)
The Guardian:
The panels are cheaper than ever and you can sell your surplus energy to the grid. No wonder, the future's bright for solar powerReal, gutsy solar power is as rare as hen's teeth in this country. By the real deal I mean photo (Read More)
Huffington Post:
GREELEY, Colo. — The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century.These days it's more than just a potent reminder of the region's agricultural roots and the hundreds of thousands of cattle raised on the ci (Read More)
The Guardian:
Greenpeace protesters plan to remain on roof of Westminster Hall for first day of parliament after chilly night under starsThirty-one Greenpeace activists remained on the roof of the Palace of Westminster this morning protest (Read More)
guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply:
Your piece on what life would be like under the Tories (How bad will it be?, G2, 8 October) misrepresented Labour and Conservative policies. In my area, energy and climate change, there are a number of facts people should be (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google and Microsoft are both in talks with Twitter to buy access to the company's full firehose of messages and shared links, according to a report this morning from Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. Could these be blockbuster de (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Report claims Tesco, John Lewis, Levis and Asda are among UK firms denying factory workers a living wageTesco, Levis, Asda and John Lewis are among 25 high street British brands that have been accused of exploiting factory ga (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Amphitheatre and palatial rooms at harbour site• Three-year project reveals what previous digs missedBritish archaeologists have unearthed a Roman amphitheatre overlooked by previous excavations at a site to the north of th (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Recurrent Energy, a rooftop solar power developer in the U.S., has branched globally, teaming with major warehouse builder ProLogis to turn thousands of square feet of roof in Madrid and Barcelona into a distributed 4.8 megaw (Read More)
Daily Kos:
At SolveClimate, which is a site you don’t want to miss during the run-up to Copenhagen, David Sassoon writes: Deutsche Bank: Absence of US Clean Energy Policy Will Send Global Capital Elsewhere Deutsche Bank last week re (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
From how to stop pesto going off, to saving animal fats for cooking, Tristram Stuart picks out your best tips and tricksThis month, the Guardian asked for your tips on avoiding food waste: you responded with a deluge, from th (Read More)