Chelsea will be champions again, say Man City's Mancini | Reuters

By Sonia Oxley
MANCHESTER, England | Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:51pm BST
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini conceded the Premier League title to Chelsea five games into the season Friday as he prepared to face them with only 11 fit players and a shortage of defenders.

U.N. atom assembly rejects Arab move targeting Israel | Reuters

By Fredrik Dahl and Sylvia Westall
VIENNA | Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:58pm BST
VIENNA (Reuters) - Member states of the U.N. nuclear watchdog narrowly rejected an Arab-sponsored resolution on Friday calling on Israel to join a global anti-atomic weapons treaty, a U.S. victory after a bruising diplomatic battle.

Wall Street insider looks into Money Never Sleeps | Reuters

By Ryan Vlastelica
NEW YORK | Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:33pm BST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 20 years after the release of hit film "Wall Street," director Oliver Stone again looks at the world of high finance with "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," opening in theatres on Friday.

Athletes arrive for Games, but future in doubt | Reuters

By Amlan Chakraborty
NEW DELHI | Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:56pm BST
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The first batch of athletes arrived in India for the Commonwealth Games on Friday, opting to stay at a hotel instead of unfinished, filthy accommodation as the future of the showcase event hung in the balance.

Lindsay Lohan sent back to jail in handcuffs | Reuters

By Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES | Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:52pm BST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan was led away from a Beverly Hills courtroom in handcuffs on Friday and taken back to jail where she is expected to spend nearly a month awaiting a hearing for violating her probation.

HSBC power struggle forces top team overhaul | Reuters

By Steve Slater and Kelvin Soh
LONDON/HONG KONG | Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:21pm BST
LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Dramatic change swept through HSBC on Friday as Europe's biggest bank named a new chairman, chief executive and finance director to repair its reputation after a shock boardroom bust-up.

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Stocks slide and bonds rise as data fails to inspire | Reuters

(Reuters) - Global stocks fell and bond prices rose on Thursday as lacklustre U.S. and euro zone economic data rekindled worries over growth prospects in the developed world.

Heavyweight panel considers bank break-ups | Reuters

By Sudip Kar-Gupta
LONDON | Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:51pm BST
LONDON (Reuters) - Banks are facing a hard-hitting probe that will examine the break-up of retail and investment banks after the financial crisis forced taxpayers to pour billions of pounds into the sector.

HSBC power struggle forces top team shake-up | Reuters

(Reuters) - A dramatic upheaval among HSBC's top management after a boardroom row has left the bank scrambling to limit damage to its reputation but unlikely to alter its increasing focus on Asia.

It's nice Jennifer Lopez wants to give kids free health care, but why not help out your old block

It's nice to know Jennifer Lopez has snagged a $12 million deal with "American Idol." It would be a heck of a lot nicer if she'd finally give some of her millions to her old school in the Bronx.

Teresa Lewis dies by lethal injection, executed in Virginia despite thousands of appeals to save her

Helber/APDeath penalty protestors rally against the execution of Teresa Lewis on Thursday. A Virginia woman met her fate Thursday night.
Teresa Lewis, who in 2002 stood by while her husband and stepson were brutally murdered as they slept, was executed thanks to a lethal cocktail of chemicals shortly after 9 p.m. at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va.

Crime pays for world-famous organist

Who says crime does not pay?
It is fair to say Carlo Curley has gone to extraordinary lengths to break into the music scene.
Like many musicians, the 58-year-old flamboyant and popular classical concert organist got his introduction to music from his grandmother, who taught him to play piano when he was 4.
Later, he joined his grandmother in the local church choir in North Carolina, where he discovered the organ.

Franklin speaks out over assault on son

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin is speaking out on the beating her adult son took from three men at a Detroit gas station this week.
Franklin said in a statement some early reports had some innaccuracies.
Franklin said through a public relations firm that Eddie Franklin underwent surgery after arriving at a hospital emergency room earlier this week. She said his jaw was wired shut.
Franklin also said her son's girlfriend gave the wrong location of the attack.

Pop idol Eddie Fisher dead

Eddie Fisher, whose huge fame as a pop singer was overshadowed by scandals ending his marriages to Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, has died. He was 85.

His daughter, Tricia Leigh Fisher, of Los Angeles, said Fisher died of complications from hip surgery at a hospital in Berkeley

Beckham to sue over allegations in US magazine

David Beckham's management company says it is taking legal action against a US magazine which published claims the former England captain slept with prostitutes.
The company said in a statement the allegations in the weekly In Touch are "completely untrue and totally ridiculous as the magazine was clearly told before publication."
"Sadly we live in a world where a magazine can print lies and believe they can get away with it. We are taking legal action against the magazine," the statement said.

How to separate without hurting the children | Life and style

Children are used as "ammunition" during separation. Photograph: Getty
Sir Nicholas Wall, Britain's most senior family judge, warned this week that parents are harming children during divorce proceedings, by using them as "the battlefield, [and] the ammunition".

Fired for being openly gay

After serving for 11 years in the US navy, Rhonda Davis openly admitted to being gay, and was thrown out. Photograph: Guardian
Campaigners against the Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy, which bans openly gay people from serving in the US armed forces, were offered hope when Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, said he would schedule a vote on it next week.....

How a catwalk show at London Fashion Week brought my memories back to life

Memories come alive . . . Models walk the runway at the Topshop Unique show. Photograph: Danny Martindale/WireImage
Long ago, in a far-off land called the 1970s, the fashion spreads in magazines for young teens used to be drawn, not photographed. I loved those drawings, of tall, slender, elegant creatures, all with exactly the same faces, figures and hair, in perfectly fitting, perfectly draping clothes.

Second shot: An amateur takes to the riser

Like last time, I was at nearly at the front of the riser, slightly to the right, perching uncomfortably on a camera box so as to shoot over the sitting cameraman in front of me. This time I was shooting with the Canon EOS ID MK IV using a tripod. This first picture is obviously a bit of a cheat - they didn't send clones down the catwalk, this is actually two shots put together. Maybe a third with her walking away would have been good - a model triptych Photograph: Kate Carter/Guardian

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Why women shouldn't be campaigning for equal pay

Made in Dagenham, based on the strike by women machinists at the Ford car plant. Photograph: Guardian
Rip off your pinny, reach for the Biba frock, get that asymmetric bob: it's the 60s all over again. Feminism's second wave is brewing, Barbara Castle is first secretary of state and the 187 women who sew car seats at the Ford Dagenham plant are out on strike.

Bono: the celebrity who just keeps giving

Bono: the U2 singer at the 2010 Atlantic Council awards, where he was given the Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership award in April 2010. Photograph: Kris Connor/Getty Images
Forgive the reheating of old chestnuts, but it seems appropriate to begin with a classic urban myth starring Bono, recently described with due reverence by Viz as ....

Bulldozers prepare as deadline on West Bank settlement freeze looms

A labourer walks through a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Elazar. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters
Giant bulldozers churn up the ground, turning the air a dusty red. Further off, the clack of building machinery and tools punctuate the tranquillity of a warm West Bank morning.

Iran and Iraq remember war that cost more than a million lives

Members of Iran's Basij militia march during a parade to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war. Photograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters
Nostalgia is not the right word to describe how Iranians and Iraqis feel when they look back at the epic war they fought – one of the longest and bloodiest of the 20th century.

Pakistan neuroscientist given 86 years for shooting at US agents

A courtroom sketch of Aafia Siddiqui with Judge Richard Berman in New York Photograph: Shirley Shepard/AFP/Getty Images
Aafia Siddiqui, a US-trained Pakistani neuroscientist who was named as one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists, was today sentenced to 86 years in prison by a New York court, in a case that has prompted outrage in Pakistan.

Japan to free Chinese fishing boat captain | World news | guardian.co.uk

Zhan Qixiong, seen being led away by Japanese coastguard personnel, was arrested after a collision in disputed waters. Photograph: Karii Matayoshi/AP
Japanese prosecutors are to release the captain of a Chinese fishing boat, two weeks after a collision in disputed waters sparked a dramatic deterioration in ties between Beijing and Tokyo.

Ireland's crisis shows folly of cuts, warns Labour

Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen came under renewed pressure after figures showed the economy shrank 1.2% in the second quarter of 2010. Photograph: Reuters
Ireland's beleaguered economy was held up by Labour as a stark warning to the UK of austerity overkill after the Irish government announced that national output had taken a fresh dive in the second ....

Prada shows Milan a flash of colour | Life and style

Oversized Mexican tequila hats also made an appearance Photograph: Daniel Dal Zennaro/EPA
Bold colour shot straight to the top of the fashion agenda tonight as Miuccia Prada showed her new collection at Milan fashion week.

Soldiers honoured for bravery in Afghanistan

A soldier who has cleared twice as many roadside bombs as any other bomb disposal specialist in history is among more than 100 service personnel honoured for bravery in Afghanistan.

James Cameron tops Guardian Film Power 100

James Cameron during a Guardian/NFT interview. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
If there were any doubts that money talks loudest in the movie business, they have been dispelled.
The expert panel behind the Guardian's inaugural Film Power 100, published in today's Film & Music section, have chosen James Cameron, director of the two ...

Commonwealth Games boycott threat recedes

Commonwealth Games 2010: Athletes and officials from the England team arrive at the airport in Delhi, India. Photograph: Saurabh Das/AP
The first English athletes have arrived in Delhi for the Commonwealth Games as the threat of a mass boycott over safety and facilities recedes.
The Indian prime minister was holding crisis talks last night, as armies of cleaners and ...

Ahmadinejad accuses US of 'orchestrating' 9/11 attacks to aid Israel

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressing the 65th UN general assembly in New York Photograph: Mike Segar/REUTERS
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has accused the US government of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks to prop up Israel.
Speaking at the UN general assembly, just a few miles away from the still open ....

England to attend Commonwealth Games | Reuters

Credit: Reuters/Luke MacGregor .
By Alan Baldwin
LONDON | Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:03pm BST
LONDON (Reuters) - England committed to the troubled Commonwealth Games on Thursday after all 17 member sports agreed to go amid signs of improvement on the ground in India.

Teresa Lewis executed in Virginia despite protests | World news | guardian.co.uk

People protesting against the execution of Teresa Lewis outside Greensville correctional centre in Virginia. Photograph: Steve Helber/AP
Teresa Lewis died early today after being given a lethal injection at the Greensville correctional centre, the first woman to be executed in Virginia in almost a century.
The execution went ahead despite protests from lawyers, international celebrities and ...

Executions of women are rare because they kill less often, researchers say - latimes.com

Virginia put to death a 41-year-old woman Thursday night, the first execution of a female in the country in five years and the first in that state for nearly a century.