An Indian anti-corruption campaigner whose arrest sparked mass protests has been allowed to fast in a New Delhi park for two weeks, an aide says... more
London-listed mining giant Vedanta pays around $1.5 billion for an 11% stake in Cairn India, raising the pressure on New Delhi to give a full takeover a green light... more
A 'Ferrero Rocher league' of hospitality spending by UK embassies abroad shows Paris tops the table after spending almost £350,000 in a single year on dinners and receptions... more
Although it is dominated by excrement, disease and garbage, the Wellcome Collection's latest show avoids the muddy thinking characteristic of many thematic exhibitions... more
Jobs for British graduates will be protected by introducing curbs on the right of foreign students to stay in this country, a Home Office minister said... more
Video: The first English athletes were due to fly to New Delhi as organisers worked feverishly to pull the event back from the brink of disaster
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Major swimming federations could easily set up an alternative competition if the event has to be called off, a leading national team official has claimed... more
Freight train crashsd into a stationary passenger train at a station in heavy rain in central India, killing at least 21 people and injuring 53... more
England opened their hockey World Cup campaign with a stunning 3-2 win over Australia in New Delhi, their first win over the Kookaburras since 1985... more
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a worthy winner of the Booker Prize but qualms have already been raised by some critics over the novel’s disservice to history... more
My overriding ambition as a cub reporter in the mid-1960s was to become a Fleet Street journalist. For reasons I now forget I became convinced that the quickest way to get there was to become a sub-editor.... more
You never know what to expect from Spanish-born conceptual artist Santiago Sierra, but rather than provoke, this latest work fails to pack a punch.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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