25 September 2013

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11.22am Science policy

An Enemy of the People: telling stories about science and politics

Alice Bell: What can a 1989 Indian film about biomedicine, plumbing and the freedom of the press tell us about the IPCC report?
11.21am Culture professionals network

Creative Russia: lessons from Berlin

Guardian Professional
Can St Petersburg emulate the German capital, once divided by communism, and transform itself into a global cultural hub?
11.20am Eurozone crisis

German consumer confidence hits six-year high, as French budget awaited - live

Germans are 'almost euphoric' about spending, reports GfK, in the latest sign of a revival in Europe's biggest economy.
11.19am Opera

Eyewitness: The Coliseum, London

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Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
11.12am Australian military

Defence inquiry finds failure to protect troops from 'green on blue' attack

Report details lapses in security at base where three Australian soldiers were killed by Afghan army sergent
11.12am Hassan Rouhani

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani: nuclear talks possible - video

Video (2min 31sec)
Iran's newly-elected president, Hassan Rouhani, addresses the UN general assembly on Tuesday
11.08am Global development professionals network

Improving access to services for women in agriculture

Guardian Professional Groups that offer agricultural services must find ways to engage the millions of women working the fields who aren't being reached by current programmes
11.06am al-Shabaab

'White widow': public enemy No 1

Jamie Gilham: The very normality of Samantha Lewthwaite's background provokes, disturbs and fascinates
11.05am Climate change

Christine Lagarde: IMF work can contribute to environmental change

The head of the International Monetary Fund said an analysis of the harmful effects of energy subsidies could be catalyst for action
11.05am Kanye West

Kanye West claims self-defence over alleged scuffle with paparazzo

Rapper responds to paparazzo's civil lawsuit by claiming he did only what was 'reasonably necessary' to secure his safety
11.03am World news

The best news pictures of the day

The Guardian's photo team rounds up the most striking images of the day
11.03am Northern Ireland

Hatchet used in suspected racist attack in Belfast

Tool smashed through window of Nigerian family's home in loyalist Sandy Row area in overnight assault
11.01am Crime

South Wales slavery investigation leads to three more arrests

Police say they have found third alleged slavery victim, a 60-year-old man, after searching address in Newport
10.44am Australian immigration and asylum

Syrians fleeing civil war are being held on Nauru, asylum rights group says

Group arrived a few months ago, detention rights advocate says, bemoaning lack of access to information from island
10.44am United States

Sarah Outen becomes first woman to row solo from Japan to Alaska

Briton reaches Aleutian Islands after five months at sea, during which she capsized five times and got engaged
10.43am Fashion

A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk – review

Stuart Brumfitt: An exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York explores the LGBTQ contribution to style, from 18th-century London to present-day America
10.42am Hassan Rouhani

Iranian reaction to Rouhani UN speech: 'I hope it works'

Iranian president's speech in New York greeted with scepticism and hope at home that it will be enough to lift sanctions
10.34am Coalition

Students and universities warn against scrapping student fees

Christopher Pyne's proposal to get rid of compulsory fees arouses fears for student services
10.27am Australia

Tony Abbott's roads plan will lead us nowhere, transport advocates claim

Critics argue money would be better spent on key urban rail projects around Australia, which are now unlikely to proceed
10.20am Domestic violence

Let's hope Eddie Kidd's courage changes attitudes over domestic abuse

Ally Fogg: Disabled people are twice as likely to suffer domestic violence – and as the motorcycle stuntman's sad story shows, that includes male victims
10.13am Greece

Racist attacks in Greece: interactive map

Interactive
Researchers working on a project called The City at a Time of Crisis have sought to track what they see as the rise of neo-Nazism in Greece using crowd-sourced public reports
9.40am West Papua

Indonesian police open fire on civilians in West Papua

Catholic brother says one person was killed and two injured when police shot at villagers who refused to cut hair and beards
9.30am Australian politics

Australia could be left with no policy on climate change

New Senate likely to wave through carbon tax repeal but minor parties are sceptical of the Coalition's Direct Action plan
9.00am Jim Carrey

Dumb and Dumber To: first pictures arrive from the set

As the Dumb & Dumber sequel gets under way almost two decades on from the original, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels have tweeted the first pictures from the shoot
8.53am Film

Blue is the Warmest Colour release 'should be cancelled', says director

Abdellatif Kechiche, the director of the Cannes hit, has expressed unhappiness about the impact of negative publicity on his own reputation and his film's legacy
8.50am Westgate mall attacks

Trial of associate of British 'white widow' linked to Nairobi attack begins

Kenya tells the UK there is nothing to suggest Samantha Lewthwaite is behind shopping mall siege
8.48am China

China sentences man to death for killing toddler in parking row

Beijing court finds Han Lei, 39, guilty of hurling two-year-old girl to the ground in an argument with her mother
8.48am Kenya

'White widow': Samantha Lewthwaite linked to Nairobi attack

Witnesses talk of British woman leading Kenya massacre but UK officials urge caution over apparent involvement of 7/7 bomber's wife
8.43am Syria

Syria crisis: UN chemical weapons inspectors return

• Ake Sellstrom's team to resume investigation into attacks
• Islamist rebels reject western backed opposition
• Obama calls for tough security council resolution
• Iran offers nuclear negotiations
8.34am Kenya

Westgate mall siege over, declares defiant Kenyatta

Kenyan president defiant after siege and announces three days of mourning for 67 killed in al-Shabaab attack on Westgate mall
8.33am Australian immigration and asylum

Indonesia sends 'loud and clear' message to Julie Bishop on asylum

Foreign minister emphatic that he will not accept measures to turn back boats if they breach his country's sovereignty
8.32am Iran

Iran's Rouhani tells UN: we pose no threat to the world

Iranian president addresses UN general assembly and says the world is 'tired of war' and US should not threaten force in Syria
8.25am US Senate

Ted Cruz: Obamacare attacked by Republican senator in marathon speech

Tea Party favourite compares fight against law to battle against Nazis during speech in largely empty chamber
8.06am Pakistan

Pakistan earthquake death toll rises as rescuers struggle to help injured

Provincial official puts death toll from magnitude 7.7 quake in Awaran district in Baluchistan at 210, with 375 people injured
8.00am Books

Robert Harris on An Officer and a Spy: 'I have no desire to be taken seriously by the literary establishment' - video interview

Video (7min 59sec)
Robert Harris talks to Richard Lea about his latest novel, An Officer and A Spy
7.55am Telecommunications industry

Telstra to cut 1,100 staff by June in overhaul of its operations

Network technicians, media operations team and customer service managers targeted in attempt to remove duplication
7.30am Pakistan

From the archive, 25 September 1980: Bhuttos urge army to help restore democracy

Originally published in the Guardian on 25 September 1980: The army should look around and see the oppression, and determine whether they are on the side of the people or of the oppressors, Nusrat and Benazir Bhutto say
7.30am Paris

The daily quiz, 25 September 2013

Quiz
Mark Cavendish, airports and The Simple Life appear in today's Paris-themed quiz marking fashion week
7.01am Israel

Binyamin Netanyahu writes off Iran president's nuclear speech as a ploy

Israeli prime minister says the world should not be taken in by Hassan Rouhani's less confrontational approach at the UN
6.54am Australian politics

Palmer United party wins its first Senate seat in Tasmania

Final election result confirms that former soldier Jacqui Lambie will become a senator in July 2014
6.21am Fremantle Dockers

Fremantle revels in the Dockers' purple patch

Sophie McNeill: Freo have made the AFL grand final for the first time in their history, and anticipation in the city has hit fever pitch
6.12am Syria

Tony Blair warns: don't let Assad off the hook on chemical weapons

Former British prime minister says sticking with US and enforcing international community's will in Syria are paramount
6.05am Bill Shorten

Taxi driver accuses Bill Shorten of planting leadership debate question

Driver claims he heard Labor contender on the phone telling someone what to to ask him and rival Anthony Albanese
5.59am Trident

Trident: this £100bn Armageddon weapon won't make us one jot safer

Simon Jenkins: The consensus among the three main parties on nuclear deterrence merely illustrates the defence lobby's ability to scare politicians stupid
5.47am Australia

Hundreds of kilograms of ephedrine seized in Melbourne - video

Video (1min 14sec)
274 kilograms of ephedrine has been found in bags labelled ''basmati rice''.
5.46am Australian immigration and asylum

Doctors concerned by 48-hour turnaround target for asylum seekers

Tight timeframe means adequate medical assessments are unlikely before refugees are sent offshore, says peak body
5.38am Environment

Take heart: combating climate change can happen at the individual level

Bronwen Clune: The Climate Commission came back to life thanks to donations. Good. We need to see ourselves as individuals choosing to fight climate change, backed by the government or not
4.24am Environment

Consumer boycott ban: does senator Richard Colbeck hate orangutans? | David Ritter

David Ritter: Tasmanian senator Colbeck wants to introduce a law to prevent boycotts of companies led by environmental groups. Such a move is an extraordinary illiberal attack on consumers' rights
4.20am Crime - Australia

Four arrests after pest inspector finds 274kg of ephedrine in rice

'On the ball' biosecurity officer noticed something unusual about the rice residue in shipment from India
3.33am Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard to publish memoirs

Random House announces it will publish former prime minister's book, which will focus on her political career, in October 2014
2.20am Crime - Australia

Police arrest two people over Sydney cinema robbery

Officers allegedly scratched and bitten by suspects after Roseville raid by gun-wielding gang
1.52am Australia

Coalition may cap university places, despite strong pre-election pledge

Christopher Pyne revives voluntary student unionism and scraps Labor's targets for increasing university participation
1.08am United Nations

Iran's new president treads middle ground in United Nations address

Breaking from his predecessor's combative rhetoric, Hassan Rouhani spoke to concerns of both conservatives and liberals
1.07am Catholicism

Could Tony Abbott be more conservative than the Pope? | Erin Handley

Erin Handley: The idea that Catholicism is distinct from conservatism has new currency after Pope Francis' recent interview. The Australian left should engage with Catholicism's radical nature, not dismiss it
1.00am Hassan Rouhani

Iran: the stakes are high

Editorial: By the end of play in New York, both Mr Rouhani and Mr Obama had committed to direct dialogue
12.12am Australia

My plan for a Big Labor party

Bill Shorten: This is a tough time for our movement, but I want to build a party of big ideas which is deeply connected to the community and reflects our diverse nation
12.01am Hospitals

Dextrose 'wards off brain damage in newborns with low blood sugar level'

Sugar gel massaged inside baby's cheek can help avoid neurological condition linked to hypoglycaemia, Lancet reports
12.01am Fossils

Roll up … the first animal that curled into a ball to take cover

How 500m-year-old trilobite pioneered one of the most successful defences of life on Earth

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