News archive from 28 February 2011
Toto recall: the Wizard of Oz hits the West End
'From where I'm sitting," splutters Jeremy Sams, "I can't think of anything less safe in the world." The director seems flabbergasted, wounded even, by my suggestion that his new West End production of The Wizard of Oz seems a surefire...
Arsenal may find it difficult to recover from this disastrous day | Richard Williams
At the final whistle, Arsenal's players stood, sat or knelt on the lush emerald turf like figures in a tableau of despair. Motionless, traumatised, suddenly drained of the last vestiges of belief and hope and even pride, they looked dismayingly like...
Six Nations 2011: Martin Johnson's England prove they have true grit
This was not a day for the swallow-divers, who found themselves shunted aside. Instead it was one for the grinders and tunnellers, the labourers at the workface. By giving Twickenham a lesson in rugby realpolitik as they took revenge for a narrow...
Five things we learned from England v France at Twickenham
1 There is more than one way to win Toby Flood only kicked the ball out of hand once against Italy but he resorted to the boot with his first touch on Saturday. England had run restarts out of their own 22 against Italy, usually with Flood passing to...
Being Human: Series three, episode six
SPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who are watching Being Human on BBC3. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode five Dan Martin's episode five blog Daddy Ghoul: The One Where … George is reunited with his parents, Herrick starts to...
Wigan 15-21 St George Illawarra | World Club Challenge match report
Even the return of Wigan was unable to change the balance of power in the World Club Challenge, as the classy Dragons secured a third consecutive Australian victory despite the bravest of efforts by the Super League champions. The visitors withstood a...
Glencore prepares blockbuster listing
Mineral trading giant Glencore is this week laying the ground for a potential long-awaited float on the London stock market which could value the company at £37.5bn. The secretive Swiss-based commodity firm could list as soon as April in one of the...
Once upon a life: David Baddiel
I should have been a scientist. My dad was a scientist. More than that: my dad grew up in a tiny terraced house in Swansea, the only child of a second-generation immigrant family – his father sold cloth, zips and buttons from door to door – and so...
Oscars 2011: How to talk about red-carpet fashion
On the day this column comes out there will be a lot of talk about "Oscars fashion". How shall I talk about "Oscars fashion" so I look in the know when all the clothes always look the same to me anyway? Tim, by email Some people...
Wayne Rooney awaits potential ruling on elbow incident at Wigan
Wayne Rooney could miss Manchester United's key Premier League games at Chelsea and Liverpool this week if the Football Association charges the England international with violent conduct for an elbow on Wigan Athletic's James McCarthy. The United...
Andrew Strauss matches the master's class in front of India's millions
They say the Chinnaswamy Stadium seats 38,000. That cannot be right. When Zaheer Khan crashed a yorker on to the toe of Andrew Strauss's boot there was enough noise for 10, 20, 50 times that number. The screams rang up into the floodlight sky and...
Mystery bird: red-shouldered hawk, Buteo lineatus
Red-shouldered hawk, Buteo lineatus, also known as the red-bellied hawk, winter hawk, or the red-shouldered buzzard, photographed at Brazos Bend State Park, southwest of Houston, Texas, USA. Image: Joseph Kennedy, 28 January 2011 [velociraptorize]....
England 17 France 9: We're on track to match the 2003 vintage, insists Wilkinson
In tricky conditions the error count was high, but Marc Lievremont's men had shown marginally more cohesion and assurance. But England assessed their predicament with the minimum of fuss and soon after the re-start they had the contest in the palm of...
Mired in scandal, Berlusconi faces tax fraud trial
The case involves the acquisition of television rights by Italy's biggest private broadcaster Mediaset, the crown jewel in Berlusconi's vast business empire. The premier and other Mediaset executives are accused of inflating the price paid for...
Oscars 2011: live coverage of the 83rd Academy Awards
11.50pm: It's the 83rd annual Academy Awards, live as a petri-dish from the Kodak theatre in Hollywood. The lights are green and the carpet's red. And for our exhausted nominees, staggering and borderline-incoherent at the end of a gruelling awards...
Realtime News
- 04:32 Kerryn Phelps backflips to preference Liberals over Labor in...
- 04:16 Australia could launch legal challenge to Japan's 'scientific'...
- 04:15 Jair Bolsonaro: Why Brazilian women are saying #NotHim
- 03:51 Amazon's Alexa knows what you forgot and can guess what you're...
- 03:50 Susie Dent reveals the origins of English rainy-day phrases
- 03:50 UKIP bids to be 'radical, populist' party
- 03:08 Cat killer mystery solved, but how do we keep our pets safe?
- 03:01 US imposes sanctions on China for buying Russian weapons
- 02:56 Brexit: 'No deal' without EU compromise, says Grayling
- 02:55 Australia emu video investigated for 'horrific cruelty'
- 02:12 Knife crime: Can Chicago's model cure London's violence?
- 01:48 Syria war: Seized foreign IS fighters 'must be taken home'
- 01:48 Suge Knight faces 28 years in jail after admitting manslaughter
- 01:47 'I gave birth, and got Hepatitis C'
- 01:45 Universities warned over potentially misleading claims
- 01:38 Imprisoned suffragette letter discovered
- 01:36 Mission implausible: Russians mock improbable spy duo
- 01:28 Reality Check: Holyhead's Brexit dilemma
- 01:20 Was Prezzo Salisbury poisoning a hoax?
- 01:20 Strictly dancers to go on strike?
- 01:15 Morrison defends $1.2bn 'slush fund' for Catholic and independent...
- 01:15 British museums face fight to gain control of Titanic artefacts
- 00:58 All the plastic you can and cannot recycle
- 00:55 Why is IVF so popular in Denmark?
- 00:54 How China's GPS 'rival' Beidou is plotting to go global
- 00:53 Anthony Joshua feeling 'tons of pressure' but will find a way to...
- 00:53 Storm Bronagh set to batter UK with 70mph gusts in Ali aftermath
- 00:53 This is the thing most likely to hospitalise you in Birmingham
- 00:47 Michigan professor embroiled in Israel boycott row
- 00:43 Feeling hungry? Try out latest recipe from the Magpie Cafe
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