BBC:
The annual Children in Need show - which included a dance-off between BBC newsreaders and Britain's Got Talent winners Diversity - raises £20.3m. (Read More)
NY Post: Yankees:
Talent, first. An ocean of coin to follow. That's the price tag hanging around Roy Halladay's neck as the small collection of teams that can afford him hatch their plans to acquire arguably the best pitcher in baseball from (Read More)
New York Times:
The junior transfer Wes Johnson and the freshman Brandon Triche helped lead the unranked Orange to an 87-71 victory over No. 6 North Carolina in Madsion Square Garden.
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Robert Crumb's straight retelling of Genesis lacks his trademark humourIt's the old story. Milton tried to retell the Bible and discovered that Satan was a more interesting character than God, and now, three centuries later, (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promiseWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who s (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
This past year or two I've been revisiting what you might call my cultural roots. Because I was distracted almost daily by treatment for a wounded foot and unable to work much, I began re-reading the PG Wodehouse, Edgar Rice (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Jenny Uglow follows the careers of five artists whose lives were defined by the first world warThe friendships made in early youth, writes David Boyd Haycock, are more open and intense than any others. In the heady student da (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write'A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Carlo Ancelotti says Kakuta is best teenager he's seen• Ban for allegedly breaking transfer rules lifted by FifaCarlo Ancelotti may today hand a Premier League debut to the best teenage footballer he has ever seen, a player (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Craig Levein the favourite to succeed George Burley• Walter Smith denies job is a poisoned chaliceWalter Smith has confirmed he has no interest in replacing George Burley as the Scotland manager, but insisted the post shoul (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The wild escalation of top salaries goes across both sectors – and so must the solution: a high pay commissionIf ever there were a need for a high pay commission to put some rationality into out-of-control top pay scales, thi (Read More)
Financial Times:
Gartmore has spent the past year steadily recruiting talent from other asset managers – a move that was widely seen as preparation for a public listing. (Read More)
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat:
Are people born writers? Or are writers created by years of practice and strong teachers?Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was Geoff Colvin, senior editor-at-large for Fortune magazine. The veteran reporter and author e (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Bankers' choice: voluntary redundancy or leave role to relative• Media and unions critical – calling it an attack on social mobilityIt is a problem many a company faces in these tough times: how to replace older – and costl (Read More)
The Guardian:
For all its sexual confusion and lack of private parts, critics are finding Mike Bartlett's provocatively titled play an impressive packageRight then, shall we just get the sniggering over with? It's Mike Bartlett's new play, (Read More)
TechCrunch UK:
This is our third guest post written by a London-based VC. To allow them to speak plainly without jeopardising their fund or their career in the small village that is the London VC scene, I’m allowing them to post anonymously (Read More)
The Guardian:
John Kennedy's retirement was another blow for a Scotland team short on talent and coherencePerhaps it was inevitable, but the confirmation a week ago that Celtic's John Kennedy had been forced to retire from professional foo (Read More)
The Guardian:
In the US, guitarist John Mayer is seriously famous – helicopters over his house-type famous. He gives Angus Batey his view from inside the 21st-century celebrity circus'I basically visualised a record called Battle Studies a (Read More)