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CDs of the week

04.09.09

Jamie T's new album is witty, gritty and well worth the wait and Charlie Wilson is, in many ways, a musical throwback.... more

WORLD: William Hague fears bleak future for Bosnia

12.08.09

Urgent action is needed to prevent Bosnia being plunged back into turmoil, shadow foreign secretary William Hague warns... more

Road patrols make troops ‘sitting ducks’ in Helmand

11.08.09

SAS veteran who wrote a best-selling book about fighting Iraqi insurgents blamed flawed tactics for the rising British death toll in Afghanistan... more

Rio Tinto on the rise after Chinese take up new shares

29.06.09

Mining giant Rio Tinto rallied from an opening fall to trade 41˝p dearer at 2101˝p today after 12% shareholder Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) indicated that it will be taking up its entitlement to the group’s Ł8 billion 21-for-40 rights issue at 1400p... more

Smoking ban from Emir Kusturica Orchestra

11.05.09

Emir Kusturica's audience was asked to clap hands, yell obscenities and watch the guitarist spin his illuminated instrument on his groin. ... more

TA fighting strength will fall to 25,000 after Treasury cuts

28.04.09

Britain's reserve armed forces are to be radically cut, under plans to be announced by the Government... more

The splinter groups linked to murders

10.03.09

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At least 200 dead as army moves into illegal mines

27.02.09

A brutal government crackdown on diamond hunters in Zimbabwe involving soldiers and police has led to more than 200 deaths in recent weeks... more

CDs of the week

13.02.09

Morrissey has lost his swagger in Years of Refusal, Empire of the Sun's record is glossy electric pop and Tim Garland takes risks.... more

Gurkhas set to take on railways

23.01.09

The gurkhas are preparing to use their military skills to take on Britain’s railways as up to 400 of them could be hired by Network Rail... more

CDs of the week

21.11.08

The Killers' third album, Day & Age, is full of catchy pop songs but none that sound like anthems and there are definite hits on Alesha Dixon's record.... more

Relics of a Golden Empire in Byzantium 330-1453

31.10.08

A thousand years of Byzantine history have been crammed into the Royal Academy – but visitors looking for the wow factor will need to travel further, says Brian Sewell.... more

London student gang-raped by Calais migrants

28.08.08

A London student was gang-raped as she investigated an illegal migrants' camp in Calais, police have said... more

Teenager in the frame for photography award

20.08.08

This is one of the highlights of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition... more

My five-year battle to exorcise the ghosts of Sarajevo

29.07.08

The recent arrest of Radovan Karadzic has brought back painful memories for former war correspondent Charlotte Eagar... more

Let Bosnia rejoice again in its heady ethnic mix

23.07.08

With the arrest of the fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's greatest war criminals is at last behind bars.... more

Hell is first great work of the 21st century

06.06.08

The Chapman Brothers have done it again – their new Hell is even better than the first, says Brian Sewell.... more

An eye-catching performance

12.05.08

Looking like a balding bank manager, Selim Sesler seems an unlikely party animal — but his Turkish clarinet soars, swoops and dives. ... more

CDs of the week

18.02.08

A welcome treat from Goldfrapp, The Feeling up their game on new album Join With Us, and perfect pop from Nada Surf.... more

Ballsy Fanfare

30.01.08

The Romanian Fanfare Ciocarlia embody in their ballsy, brassy oompah sound every kind of party you could ever imagine.... more

CDs of the week

05.10.07

The truly indestructible Sugababes return for their fifth album and London songsmith Jack Peńate aims to vindicate all that gushing praise.... more

The Gypsy Caravan

23.08.07

A dazzling new documentary by director Jasmine Dellal looks set to do for Romany music what Buena Vista Social Club did for the Cuban sound.... more

Eastern promises

11.07.07

Nigel Osborne's opera Differences in Demolition is the latest result of his ongoing collaboration with Bosnian artists... more

Breaking up the Journey

29.05.07

The 1000 Year Journey festival of Gypsy music concludes with flamenco songster Diego El Cigala and the eclectic Balkan sounds of Martin Lubenov's Orkestar. ... more

Critic's Choice: top five clubs

18.05.07

This weekend, take advantage of a splash of Drum'n'bass at Medicine, a boat party with a bit of a kick and some seriously funky world music.... more

Romany rhythms

30.04.07

The warmth, camaraderie and ambience at Le Quecumbar when Vasile Stanescu performed took the crowd to another world, far from London.... more

Falling into steppe

20.04.07

Eastern Europe is coming to town. But will Radio Gagarin at the Notting Hill Arts Club leave Alex Kasriel out in the cold or dancing like a cossack?... more

Closely observed characters on the trains

20.03.07

Fine performances constantly engage the audience in Europe, a slick, sleek production about characters hanging around a soon-to-be-closed railway station.... more

CDs of the week

23.02.07

The Kaiser Chiefs' second album, cult figure Patrick Wolf, a star-studded children's album, and a gipsy clarinetist are among the CDs of the week.... more

CDs of the week

10.11.06

Jarvis Cocker's debut solo album features some of his most idiosyncratic work ever, All Saints' Studio 1 is jaw-droppingly dreadful and Yusuf Islam edges back to pop.... more