News archive from 19 April 2011
Local elections: A real-life opinion poll of coalition popularity
Local election results are likely to be read a a judgement on Ed Miliband's impact as Labour leader. Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PA It is traditional to use each year's local elections as a real-life opinion poll about the state of the parties, even...
World's 50 best restaurants 2011
The world's number 1 restaurant: Noma in Copenhagen. Photograph: Casper Christoffersen/AFP/Getty Images 1. NomaCopenhagen, Denmark Last year's position: 1 Noma is best known for its fanatical approach to foraging but there is much more to this...
The world's 50 best restaurants (minus one) | Jay Rayner
Ferran Adrià’s restaurant El Bulli has been excluded from this year's list of the 50 best restaurants in the world. Photograph: Murdo Macleod This year's World's 50 Best Restaurants list is all about what isn't there, rather than what is. The absence...
NY Times, LA Times, Jennifer Egan, win Pulitzers
Author Jennifer Egan won the fiction prize for "A Visit from the Goon Squad," Bruce Norris picked up the drama award for "Clybourne Park" and Siddhartha Mukherjee was awarded the nonfiction prize for "The Emperor of All...
McLaren up to pace after poor pre-season, says Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton shows off the trophy after his grand prix win in China Photograph: Peter J Fox/Getty Images Lewis Hamilton has revealed the full extent of McLaren's problems following his thrilling victory on Sunday, which has thrown open the Formula...
Queens Park Rangers 0-0 Derby County | Championship match report
QPR's Wayne Routledge shoots wide in the Championship match against Derby. Photograph: Tony O'Brien/Action Images Queens Park Rangers edged closer to the Premier League with a point against a resillient Derby side, but this was not a performance that...
LS Lowry: The original grime artist
Modern primitive . . . a detail from Street Scene, 1935. The paintings of LS Lowry are unforgettable. That's partly because they can be reduced to such simple elements – Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs, as one-hit wonders Brian and Michael...
Mystery bird: rosy-patched bush-shrike, Rhodophoneus cruentus
Rosy-patched bush-shrike, Rhodophoneus cruentus (synonym; Telophorus cruentus, formerly; Tchagra cruenta, protonym; Lanius cruentus), also known as the Rosy-patched Bushshrike or the Rosy-patched Shrike, photographed at Awash National Park, Ethiopia...
Game of Thrones: episode one
Game Of Thrones episode one: Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa) and Dany (Emilia Clarke). Photograph: HBO Spoiler alert: Don't read on if you haven't watched the first episode of Game of Thrones on Sky Atlantic. For the purposes of this blog we are also going...

QPR 0 Derby County 0: Rangers fire a rare blank to leave the promotion party on hold
He posted on his Twitter account on Monday afternoon: 'Surely an up and coming player of the season in the Championship (Taarabt) should destroy someone with only five games left in his career and is nearly 37. But you just never know?' Savage was...
General McChrystal did not violate US military policy, Pentagon finds
General Stanley A McChrystal, sacked by Barack Obama last year, has been cleared by a Pentagon investigation. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP A Pentagon investigation has found insufficient evidence that General Stanley McChrystal, the former US...
ProPublica makes history with web-based Pulitzer Prize win
For the first time in the history of the Pulitzer Prize – the highest honour in American journalism – the award has gone to a series of articles in an investigation that never appeared on the printed page. ProPublica, the web-based independent...
Tottenham Hotspur fear fixture change may benefit Manchester City
Harry Redknapp will be hoping the Premier League reschedules the Manchester City v Stoke City league game. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters Tottenham Hotspur will lobby the Premier League over the rescheduling of the Manchester City against Stoke...
Portrait of the artist: Roxana Silbert, director
'What is grunge for?' ... director Roxana Silbert. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian How did you get into directing? Running a community drama group at Norwich Arts Centre. Until then, I'd been training to work with people with autism. But I did...

LA Times and NY Times each win two Pulitzer Prizes
The Los Angeles Times and the New York Times have each been awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. The Los Angeles Times won the public service prize for a series exposing how some local California politicians were paying themselves six-figure...
Realtime News
- 17:38 Atletico Madrid 'will not renew' Jan Oblak deal despite PSG...
- 17:38 Diego Costa included in Atletico Madrid's squad for Europa League...
- 17:38 West Yorkshire highest for horse cruelty complaints as sick animals...
- 17:37 Girl asking disabled best friend to be her prom date will make you cry
- 17:36 West Yorkshire highest for horse cruelty complaints as sick animals...
- 17:36 Jail for transgender beautician who assaulted police constable
- 17:36 Special forces need to face scrutiny from parliament, say MPs
- 17:35 Cheltenham Festival victim nearly blinded after being picked on for...
- 17:34 Liverpool vs Roma LIVE: Updates, goals and reaction from Champions...
- 17:34 Liverpool fans will LOVE what Luis Garcia has said about squad...
- 17:34 Anthony Joshua reveals he speaks to Wladimir Klitschko DAILY for...
- 17:34 Transfer News LIVE updates: Huge Salah claim, Man Utd deal close,...
- 17:34 Vile conditions at London pizza place with dead mice on kitchen floor
- 17:34 Sunderland chief gives big update on future of club: Takeover is...
- 17:34 Drugs worth £200,000 seized in Kettering
- 17:32 Frank Skinner: 'Johnny Cash started me on the rocky road to...
- 17:32 Five teenagers arrested after man attacked in Kirkby
- 17:32 Supreme court upholds teenager's 241-year prison term
- 17:31 Lincolnshire Police reveals upsurge in assualts on officers
- 17:30 You will get banned from Facebook for posting about these six...
- 17:29 Police confirm death of a woman in west Cumbria
- 17:27 Lesley Laird launches bid to be Scottish Labour deputy leader
- 17:26 ‘Disrespectful’...rubbish fly-tipped across graves in Wakefield...
- 17:26 Avicii warned management he 'was going to die' amid pressure to do...
- 17:26 Metro Bank founder Vernon Hill sees off shareholder revolt
- 17:25 Burton Albion showed Derby County performance wasn't a one-off -...
- 17:25 Two holiday venues fly the flag for Northumberland
- 17:25 This was the last runner to finish the London Marathon this year
- 17:23 Wasps: Kyle Eastmond could face Northampton Saints, Joe Simpson may...
- 17:21 Ilkeston engineering firm celebrate multi-million pound gas contract
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