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Before Midnight's stellar work for the Greek tourist board and Moby's mission to help indie film-makersGet us to the GreeksDirector Richard Linklater was pretty smart about his filming locations for...
View ArticleG8 leaders reveal their TripAdvisor guide to Lough Erne | Victoria Coren
Now we know what statesmen really think, Northern Ireland tourism is set for a boostAccording to research by Barclays Bank, the staging of the G8 conference in Lough Erne could have brought as much as...
View ArticleWhy was G20 bugging story not all over Fleet Street's front pages?
Blame the DA notice committee and its relationship with the media for the apparent lack of interest in the Guardian's exclusiveNewspapers have waded through years of Levesonian opprobrium without much...
View ArticleBangladeshi factory deaths spark action among high-street clothing chains
After April's disaster at Rana Plaza, retailers are finally signing up to international safety rules and giving money to enforce themWestern clothing retailers were inevitably going to face questions...
View ArticleParis is beating London in charm offensive to lure wealthy Chinese shoppers
The French capital has overcome bureaucratic obstacles such as visa requirements to attract big spending touristsFor one fleeting instant, an expression of intense exasperation flickered across the...
View ArticleA crisis of legitimacy could strike Britain too | Observer editorial
Increasing social inequality is being still being ignored by our major political partiesTaksim Square, Sofia and now São Paulo: the images of protest that have flashed across our TVs suggest what began...
View ArticleIran: the west needs to forge a more nuanced relationship with the new regime...
Bush and Blair saw Iran in terms of black and white. We need a different engagementThe election of Hassan Rouhani, a 64-year-old cleric, to the presidency of the Islamic republic of Iran leaves many...
View ArticleRaffaele Sollecito: 'It's like Kafka, they play with my life,' says Italian...
Raffaele Sollecito, the ex-boyfriend of Amanda Knox, speaks out after learning that his case is going back to courtAfter years of being depicted as a softly spoken figure in the courtrooms of Perugia,...
View ArticleNigella Lawson: the best way to end abuse is to shine a light on it | Barbara...
There's an argument for many women needing a pap around to record violent incidentsAfter Nigella Lawson had her throat seized and nose twisted by her husband, Charles Saatchi, outside a Mayfair...
View ArticleObama to announce plan to tackle climate change
US president will unveil blueprint for reducing carbon pollution in speech at Georgetown UniversityBarack Obama will unveil a national climate change plan on Tuesday, offering the first real glimpse of...
View ArticleAustralian soldier dies in Afghanistan
Special forces member was on his fifth tour of the country and becomes 40th Australian casualty there since invasionAn Australian special forces soldier has been killed and two of his fellow troops...
View ArticleLions v Wallabies highlights – video
All the biggest moments from the British and Irish Lions' dramatic defeat of Australia's Wallabies at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane
View ArticleArab Idol: Mohammed Assaf wins talent search – video
A 22-year-old communications student from Gaza has won the Arab Idol singing contest, sparking jubilation among Palestinians and people who voted for him across Arab nations
View ArticleMohammed Assaf wins Arab Idol
Jubilation among Palestinians as singer who grew up in refugee camp wins over voters across Arab worldPalestinian cities erupted in joy after the Gazan singer Mohammed Assaf won the Arab Idol singing...
View ArticleChina shooting spree ends with six dead
One victim beaten to death and five others fatally shot in country where few own firearms and gun violence is rareIn a rare case of gun violence in China a man fatally shot five people and beat a sixth...
View ArticleChen Guangcheng visits Taiwan
Blind activist in effective exile from China goes on speaking tour as claims swirl about his departure from New York UniversityThe blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is due to arrive in Taiwan on...
View ArticleHow to beat the midges this summer
From digital tracking services to creams and traditional bog myrtle, you can beat the flying pestsIt is, more or less, summer and there are holidays to plan. Unfortunately, midges are on manoeuvres...
View ArticleEdward Snowden leaves Hong Kong for Moscow: live updates
The NSA whistleblower has left Hong Kong on an Aeroflot flight to Moscow, after the US charged him with espionage, with his eventual destination unknownPeter Walker
View ArticleModernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-1959 by David Kynaston – review
The latest book in David Kynaston's history of Britain captures the tedium of the 50s in exhaustive detailOn 5 December 1958, Harold Macmillan opened Britain's first stretch of motorway with a...
View ArticleKevin Powers: 'I've always had a certain level of comfort with the dark part...
The former soldier and winner of the Guardian first book award on conveying the experience of war, the immediacy of poetry, and his instinct to writeFrom Richmond in Virginia, Kevin Powers joined the...
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