World News from Times Online:
Folk have long memories in Up Holland, a Lancashire mining village recorded in the Domesday Book, but few could put a name yesterday to the features of its most illustrious daughter. (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
BEIJING — A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them.China's mines are the world's dea (Read More)
www.msnbc.msn.com:
A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has killed 11 people, trapped 128 and injured an unknown number, authorities say.
China - Coal - Gas explosion - Energy - Technology. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Swedish soprano whose perceptive singing and vivid acting made her a great heroine in operas by Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and JanacekOne of the most perceptive and admired sopranos of the postwar era, Elisabeth Söderström, (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
As a Belgian, I am shocked by the disinformation around the candidacy and person of Mr Van Rompuy, especially by the British tabloids (The great EU stitch-up, 20 November). Their comments are an insult. Van Rompuy is not to b (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
LONDON — A British couple being held hostage by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday that they fear they will be killed or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom is not paid soon.Paul and Rachel Chandler were (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Lady Ashton is apparently a perfectly personable woman, but she was only chosen because she ticked the right boxesIf someone held the patent for the word "nice" they would make a fortune today: the only thing anyone can find (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Neither side stands out as probable winners of this contest if recent form is anything to go by. Bolton have won one of their six home matches while Blackburn have lost all five away from Ewood Park. Both encounters between t (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I get that this Flo TV iPhone demo is just a proof of concept. That's fine! I'm just a little confused as to what the concept is. Is it just what they're showing us? A Flo TV app, that requires some kind of accessory to tune (Read More)
The Guardian:
The shockwaves from Wednesday's seismic events at Stade de France may be felt in deepest, darkest Lancashire, with Martin O'Neill undecided as to whether he will play the "very, very disappointed" Richard Dunne. "Let me put i (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Despite injuries to key players this is a game Chelsea should win easily. The interest, then, lies elsewhere. First, there is Kevin Doyle's reunion with Nicolas Anelka and Florent Malouda days after his heart was broken in Pa (Read More)
The Guardian:
With so much attention on Hull's manager Phil Brown going into their injury-time win over Stoke last time out, the return of Jimmy Bullard went relatively unremarked, but the Londoner's galvanic midfield efforts brought the s (Read More)
The Guardian:
Perhaps Sky should have considered dropping the 'Super' prefix of their live Sunday package when pairing this game with Bolton v Blackburn but an apathetic audience should not overlook the importance that this fixture holds f (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Shadow foreign secretary says French newspapers reported peer got foreign minister post in return for assurance that French MEP would become commission vice-presidentWilliam Hague today suggested the appointment of the Britis (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
It would be hard to imagine a less democratic process for appointing the EU president. I should know – I tried toThe news from Brussels is something to slowly savour. For those of us in the Euro-project sceptic camp, the anno (Read More)
Now Public Citizen Journalism:
The European Union’s leaders yesterday has made a decision. They formally elected the first president of the EU and its ‘secretary of state’ too.Mr. Herman Van Rompuy, an unknown Christian...read more. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Tottenham begin the weekend in the top four and, having never lost to the Latics at White Hart Lane, will be confident of ending Sunday evening there even if they would like to produce a more convincing performance than that (Read More)
Huffington Post:
UPDATE 11/20:Details are emerging about how model Daul Kim died, making the probability of a suicide more and more likely. Scroll down for more information and video of Kim.From AP:By JEAN-PIERRE VERGESPARIS - A 20-year-old t (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
He used to be Beetlejuice and Batman. Now Michael Keaton is a first-time director and a contented manMichael Keaton is standing in the middle of his London hotel room, transfixed by the widescreen television before him. He ho (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Science:
From as far back as discovery of fire, science has made us anxious. We must harness fear's power, not be consumed by itNo sooner was it announced that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear R (Read More)