Leveson debate TV-style regulation is not going to screen out all the problems
The battle over whether a new system of press regulation needs some form of statutory back-up - or "verification" as Leveson proposed - is well and truly on. On one side, campaigners for ...
View ArticleOpen door Chris Elliott The readers editor on… the ratio of men to women in...
The Guardian was one of the first papers to place an emphasis on the coverage of women's issues with the introduction of a dedicated page in 1957. The question of whether women's coverage ...
View ArticleHome state newspaper casts doubt on Menendez during scandal
The chairmanship had been held by former Sen. John Kerry, who was sworn in as secretary of state on Friday. Menendez is set to take over the position this week. Menendez has been in the spotlight as ...
View ArticleMan saves 20 dogs from euthanasia
A Canadian businessman has rescued 20 dogs from being euthanized at Quebec shelters and transferred them to Toronto for adoption. Lou Tucci, co-owner of Royal Envelope Ltd., said he heard about the ...
View ArticleHang glider crash in Russia kills 2
A motorized hang glider Sunday crashed into the wall of a house in the Russian Ural Mountains, killing two people, investigators said. The pilot died at the scene in the town of Krasnoturyinsk in ...
View ArticleMultination Iran nuclear talks to resume
Multinational talks over the fate of Iran's nuclear program are set to resume later this month, German and U.S. officials confirmed. The United States, Germany, France, Great Britain, China and ...
View ArticleU.S. Mexico reach tomato trade accord
The United States and Mexico have reached an agreement to avoid a cross-border tomato trade war, officials in both countries said. The deal was prompted by a request to the U.S. Commerce Department ...
View ArticleSonia Sotomayor Goes By Sonia At D.C. Restaurants Is Friendly With Neighbors...
Near her sleek U Street area condo building, where prices for units range from $350,000 to a little more than $1 million, the staff at the "green eatery" chicken place knows whom to expect ...
View ArticlePanetta On Meet The Press ‘Knives Out For Hagel’ But Unenthusiastic About...
As expected, the confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee for former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel’s nomination for the job of Secretary of Defense was a rocky one. ...
View Articlei Editors Letter Olympic legacy
I spent much of a precious free weekend on touchlines, freezing my **** off, hopping from foot to foot to maintain circulation. I couldn't have been happier - well OK, maybe if it was ...
View ArticleMinneapolis native creates crossword puzzles for New York Times
Think you can solve this puzzle in less than 10 minutes? That wasn't a problem for the competitive crossword puzzlers who gathered in St. Paul over the weekend for the second annual Minnesota ...
View ArticleAt least 8 dead in Calif. tour bus crash
A tour bus collided with a truck and a car in Southern California Sunday night, resulting in at least eight deaths, authorities said. Besides the fatalities, 27 people were taken to hospitals, six ...
View ArticleTwitter users spawn 24.1 million Super Bowl game tweets
(Credit: Christian Petersen/Getty Images) This year's Super Bowl started out as a blowout, with the Ravens crushing the 49ers. After a 108-yard kickoff return by the Ravens to start the ...
View ArticleTwitter and the Washington Post reveal discovery of cyber-attacks
NEW YORK -- Social media giant Twitter is among the latest U.S. companies to report that it is among a growing list of victims of Internet security attacks, saying that hackers may have gained access ...
View ArticleThe Arctics first murder trial from the Guardian archive 4 February 1924
Inuit hunters in Canada, March 1924, the same year two Inuits became the first to be executed under Canadian law. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Hulton ...
View ArticlePBOC’s Zhou to Step Down in March Official Newspaper Reports
reported , without citing anyone. The report, part of a Feb. 2 profile of Zhou, may be the first time that an official media organization has reported on the timing of his departure from ...
View ArticleMonday newspaper round-up Barclays Centrica George Osborne...
news ) ' old guard are being swept away in a clearout that has claimed the finance director and the bank's legal chief. Chris Lucas, the finance director since 2007, and Mark Harding, the ...
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GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO ENCOURAGE FIRMS TO GO PUBLIC, SAYS STOCK EXCHANGE CHIEF - Irish Stock Exchange chief executive Deirdre Somers has said the Government needs to consider ways of incentivising young ...
View ArticleHugh Grant is it love actually from the Daily Mail | Media Monkey
Daily Mail which on Saturday featured a tattooed Grant character on its front page, notes: "Maybe there is no harm in giving the star of Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral the benefit ...
View ArticleFeb. 4 Parliament’s glory days and other letters to the editor
Re God Knows Who'll Win Super Bowl (Feb. 1): America's worst blasphemy - even if there were a God, he still wouldn't give a damn about your sports ...
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