Новости за 23.07.2015

Ann Allan has lived in the east end of Glasgow for almost all of her life, but her new house is a bit different to the others – not least because a year ago, an elite athlete was probably sleeping in her living room. In March, the 74-year-old became one of the first residents of the Athletes’ Village, which it is hoped will become one of the most lasting legacies of the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Not for Michael Gove the latest potboiler to while away the tedium of a visit to an accident and emergency department after he hurt his foot.

An “embittered” teenager planned mass murder at his former college after amassing a collection of weapons and explosives, a court has heard.

It crashes, it bangs, it sets up a banshee scream of wind noise, and it has an ooh-aah factor which stops old ladies walking their dogs on the Portsmouth shore to watch a weird and wonderful man-made contraption skimming at high speed across the water. They are not watching graceful sailing, they are captivated by the image of paceful sailing. Peaceful it ain’t.

Are you empathetic or analytical? The answer could lie in your CD collection. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have established that a person’s preference for particular musical artists – from Norah Jones to Metallica – can provide an insight into how they think.

British intelligence agencies have been spying on MPs and peers in contravention of a decades-old convention prohibiting surveillance of politicians’ communications, a tribunal has heard.

Personal rivalries are rising quickly to the surface ahead of the inaugural America’s Cup World Series. Having collaborated in the successful defence by Oracle Team USA in San Francisco in 2013, Australian skipper Jimmy Spithill is happy to twist the tail of Sir Ben Ainslie now that he is skipper of British challenger Land Rover BAR.

The Labour Party has lapsed into a crisis that was wholly avoidable and arises from a wilfully self-serving or inadvertent misreading of the party’s unexpected defeat at the election.

According to policing minister Mike Penning, the Government’s strategy in the war on drugs is working because long-term levels of the abuse of illicit substances are falling. Whether you agree depends on how you interpret the word “working”.

When Mark Whitaker’s biography of Bill Cosby was published in September 2014, it earned favourable reviews for its sympathetic portrait of a comedy legend, who, in spite of some personal flaws, had contributed immeasurably to race relations in the US.

Nick Clegg’s salary was halved when he lost his position as Deputy Prime Minister, falling from £134,565 to £67,060, but he may yet save himself the embarrassment of having to shop at Lidl instead of Waitrose. He has been signed up as a corporate speaker by Leading Authorities, a Washington-based agency.

A group of former Ukip backers is to launch a £20m campaign to persuade the public to vote to leave the European Union in the in/out referendum to be held  by 2017.

Croatia has been stripped of one point in its European Championship qualifying group after a swastika was painted on the field before a match against Italy.

The decision to allow British farmers to ignore a European ban on pesticides linked to declining bee populations has been branded a scandal by environmentalists.

Bob Dylan may be revered as a poet for his songwriting ability, but Eminem and Kanye West have both been found to use a wider vocabulary than the folk legend.

Manchester United fans would rather see Nicolas Otamendi at the club come the end of the transfer window than Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos.

The Spanish company running the bungee jump that killed a British student had been reported to the police over safety fears, it has been claimed.

Enid Blyton's former home has gone up for sale, but if you want to live where the children's author penned some of her most popular books, you'll need to find the grand sum of £1.75 million.

Newcastle are on the verge of sealing their third signing of the summer in the form of Anderlecht defender Chancel Mbemba, but reports suggest that the Congolese international could be anywhere between 20 to 27 years old.

Half of landlords intend to increase rents in response to measures in the Chancellor’s budget, according to a new industry survey.

QPR manager Chris Ramsey has not given up hope of keeping Charlie Austin.

Liverpool's former director of football Damien Comolli claims the club are risking a second successive season of disappointment with their summer transfer policy.

A third body has been been found in the search for four workers who've been missing since an explosion at a mill in Cheshire.

Charles Bukowski was 51 when his first novel was published – but he more than made up for lost time, producing numerous novels, screenplays, stories and poetry collections before his death, aged 73, in 1994. Death has hardly slowed his productivity and Bukowski's latest book of never before published writings in which he discusses the "pleasant disease" of his vocation in provocative, booze-soaked letters, is by no means the first collection of his correspondence to appear. When it comes to barrel-scraping... Читать дальше...

They say readers need characters with whom they can identify. Simon Hughes had me at "I wasn't a good batsman". These things are relative; he is a former professional cricketer. But even for natural bowlers like him, it's often the dream of becoming a batsman that first attracts them to the game, and this book cleverly adopts the perspective of those of us who'd answer "me" to the question posed in its title, but lack the necessary talent.