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Paul Nash: Haunted by the past
Ghosts. All right, it's not the right word. I don't mean something white and flitting, or an armoured man with his head held under his arm. The presences in Nash-world are something far less defined and less definable. -
Sam Wallace: Testing week for Capello ends with a gentle draw
Bilic has seen the worst of England under Terry's captaincy and the very best. In the last qualifying campaign for a European Championships, his team beat Steve McClaren's England twice – the second occasion at Wembley in… -
'Dear John' dethrones box office king 'Avatar'
The film, an adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel about a soldier who falls in love with a college student, stormed to an impressive 32.4 million dollars on its debut, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said. -
Jimenez holds nerve in sudden-death win
European No 1 Westwood birdied the last hole in regulation to card a final round level par 72 to join Jimenez at 11-under. Spaniard Jimenez, who began the day holding a one shot lead alongside Westwood, Alvaro Quiros and… -
Toshack looks to Ramsey and Bale to inspire Welsh efforts
Capello earns a basic salary of £4.8m a year and has some of the most famous players in the Premier League at his disposal. Toshack had to look to the Championship for some of his squad. England expects their team to cruise… -
First knight of British jazz, Johnny Dankworth, dies
On one occasion, dining with Duke Ellington at the house of the Queen's cousin, Gerald Lascelles, Dankworth even stepped in at the piano when the Duke found he'd forgotten one of his own tunes halfway through – not an act… -
England limited but lucky after Jones loses his head
Warren Gatland, the defeated coach, set the after-match tone by dismissing England's rugby as something out of the sporting ark. Their game plan was based on the pick-and-go and the box-kick," he said. -
'It's tricky to find men when you're living under a fatwa'
But amid the mingling of eminent grey matter – guests included Barack Obama's speechwriter and Oprah Winfrey – there was also a crackling of mutual physical attraction between two glamorous invitees with a shared taste for… -
Dom Joly: Make England captains live like monks
As regular readers will know, I loathe football and have no interest in it whatsoever. I was, however, fascinated to hear somebody on BBC Five Live describe the England captaincy as "the biggest job in the world". -
International Potato Center opens Asia branch in China
"Research into potatoes and sweet potatoes will receive a new boost in a region which urgently needs to guarantee its own food security, thanks to the creation of the CIP for Asia and the Pacific," the center, known by its… -
Warrior class: An exercise in modern masculinity
There were poachers and rock stars, matinée idols and shirtless martyrs sporting gilded crowns of thorns. Louis Vuitton suggested Franz Kafka as a style icon, John Galliano countered with Sherlock Holmes (though that's a … -
Death or glory: Simon Usborne rides the Cresta Run
As David Payne, the man in charge, prepares our group for an assault on the world's oldest and most terrifying toboggan run, a grisly composite of X-rays hangs against a window. As you can see," Payne says, "it is possible,… -
Diane Abbott: You Ask The Questions
Who should lead Labour after the next election? Tom Robertson, London Whoever the Labour Party chooses. What's the single biggest reason that, after 12 years of Labour, if you're born poor in Britain your life chances are… -
'Hold inquiry into Army abuse in Iraq'
The move could lead to the biggest investigation into military malpractice ever heard in this country. Mr Justice Silber, in a note written to lawyers acting for the Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, has told the Government:… -
Dunguib win gives Irish flying start to the Festival
Probably the best bumper horse ever, he has yet to come off the bridle since turning his attention to hurdles. Admittedly, some rather clumsy jumps in the Deloitte Novice Hurdle made it possible to wonder whether he might… -
Tehran cuts ties with British Museum over Persian treasure
The clay tablet is believed to be the world's first declaration of rights and the British Museum says it needs to keep it until the summer as experts have made a ground-breaking discovery that could lead to the decoding of… -
Another bump in the road: Toyota faces recall of its ultimate 'green machine'
The company confirmed for the first time that British owners have complained of a loss of braking power in the Prius. Similar complaints have formed the basis of angry claims in the US, where it is suspected of having… -
How do you make children eat healthily? Lock them in
Rob Rees, a former chef who now runs a private cookery school and his own food consultancy, has taken over from the television cook Prue Leith as chairman of the School Food Trust, which was set up by the Government to promote… -
Scotsman, 72, joins judo's highest rank
George Kerr, who runs a judo club for 200 young people in Edinburgh, was presented with the award at a Grand Slam event in Paris on Saturday in front of 14,000 people. He is one of very few non-Japanese people ever to receive… -
Cycling: Wiggins works wonders
First across the line for Sky in the wind-blasted 8.3km course somewhere in northern Doha's deeply unglamourous suburbs – starting outside an electricity sub-station and finishing a stone's throw away from a half-built… -
On runway patrol: How safe is take-off?
He spotted military planes for fun as a boy; now he spots commercial planes for a living, as an airside duty manager at Heathrow Airport. At this particular moment, however, he's somewhat preoccupied with a different sort … -
Haskell pulls a flanker on Wales
Primarily, he played a full part in drawing the sting from a Welsh loose-forward unit that looked capable of hurting England at every turn, using his ever-increasing size and strength to subdue the bludgeoning Andrew Powell… -
Forward thinkers and innovators discuss ‘what the world needs now’
The annual event is organised by TED, a non-profit organization that aims to spread ideas in the interests of global knowledge and inspiration. The conference seeks to showcase ideas and projects from the most creative minds… -
Love Poems, By Carol Ann Duffy
From earlier collections such as Mean Time to a sneak preview of her next volume, The Bees, an exhilarating harvest of 34 poems reveals Duffy as a poet who covers the stormy waterfront of desire, devotion and despair. -
Here's looking at dew: spiders snare water from the air
In a paper published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, Chinese scientists report on why spider's silk is not only famous for strength but also terrific for collecting water from the air, sparing the creature a hunt for a drink. -
James Lawton: Haskell gets Johnson out of the dungeon – but not yet…
Where he and his team go now after beating a far more gifted Welsh team, who were betrayed quite shatteringly by a mind-blowing moment of madness by one of their best players, second-rower Alun Wyn Jones – it certainly… -
Race is on to save site of Roman chariot track
Five years later, residents have less than a month to save the site. The racetrack is still hidden beneath local roads, gardens and old army buildings, but campaigners are hoping to buy a large Victorian garden which covers… -
Scotland feel full force of Bastareaud's redemption
A cousin of the Arsenal defender William Gallas, he has also been a cause célèbre since sparking the diplomatic incident last summer that led to François Fillon, the Prime Minister of France, issuing a formal apology to… -
Really Old, Like Forty Five, Cottesloe Theatre, London
Really Old, Like Forty Five is set at the midpoint of this century, a future in which an increasingly aged population has brought about drastic measures to deal with the elderly and improve their image. -
'Terry is one of my most important players' says Capello
Having flatly refused to discuss the Terry episode with television and radio crews, Capello stopped on his way out of the Euro 2012 qualifying draw at the Palace of Culture here to speak briefly about his former captain.
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- 1 Hull City
- 2 Iraq Inquiry
- 3 Johnny Dankworth
- 4 Manning
- 5 Orange Revolution
- 6 Super Bowl
- 7 knots
- 8 enrichment
- 9 Steve Bruce
- 10 John Terry
- 11 Fabio Capello
- 12 Duke Ellington
- 13 Dilemmas
- 14 Didier Drogba
- 15 Defence Secretary
- 16 Andrew Marr