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St Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s La Bayadère is fantasy spectacle on a pinched budget. The staging is skimpy where it should be lavish, while the company are overstretched by Marius Petipa’s 1877 ballet.

I was shocked when I heard that the Met Office had lost its forecasting contract with the BBC, not least because many of the commercial weather forecasters are still using much of the Met Office data.

The Ashley Madison infidelity website, an online sex exchange, is used by millions of men and women. To many of us, the business seems a little creepy and distasteful. But the moral vigilantes who hacked into the site and published names, addresses and identities of users are truly horrible. They have callously invaded private lives, disclosing deep secrets. The data dump will lead to personal violence and, worse, state brutality in some parts of the world. Gay people are most at risk.

Political futurology being all the rage, it’s time to dust off the trusty crystal ball. The trusty crystal ball, that is, which last November foresaw Andy Burnham as a dead cert to succeed Ed Miliband as Labour leader, and in early May glimpsed Ed striding into No 10.

Andy Vernon accused Mo Farah of costing him a place in the British team at the World Championships moments after Farah received his gold medal for the 10,000metres.

The care home was judged “inadequate” for safety, leadership and effectiveness. The five residents were moved after it emerged they were, abused, sworn at, ridiculed and “inappropriately” restrained by staff. A fire door did not open, there were no seats in toilets, health needs were not properly monitored and the centre breached various regulations. One man is on bail after being arrested for assault.

Looking at the obscene photograph of old archeologist Khaled al-Asaad’s headless corpse tied to a lamp-post in Palmyra – another image for the library of pornography that Isis produces weekly – I was struck by how deeply the “Islamic Caliphate” has stabbed the world of journalism. I’m not just talking about the reporters it has murdered or of poor John Cantlie, whose videos from inside “Caliphate territory” is a “Thousand and One Nights” saga of Scherezade-style stories, each allowing him another day of life. Читать дальше...

The candidates fighting it out for leadership of the Labour Party have faced heightened media scrutiny ever since the contest began.

On Wednesday the Secretary of State for Education Nicky Morgan unveiled plans to improve children’s literacy in the UK. Writing in The Telegraph, Morgan revealed that the Tory government have teamed up with David Walliams in a bid to tackle the statistic that shows one in five children leave primary school unable to read well enough to enable them to perform proficiently at secondary school – a figure that rises to one in three of the nation’s poorest children.

Dear Virginia

Some are saying that Usain Bolt 'saved' athletics with his victory in the 100m final at the World Championships in Beijing.

Usain Bolt beat Justin Gatlin to 100m gold at the World Championships in Beijing - a result that's proving very popular on Twitter.

Usain Bolt rode to the rescue of his beleaguered sport once again as he dashed Justin Gatlin's hopes of 100 metres gold at the World Championships in Beijing.

Blimey. What a week. In the past seven days, I have been completely, utterly and totally blown away by the kindness of strangers. And friends. And family. And family friends. And colleagues past and present. And people my dad knows (my father is the kind of person who strikes up conversations with whomever is in the seat next to him on planes, and he travels a lot, so few escape without becoming an acquaintance at the very least).

Couples who share childcare are more likely to have a healthy relationship and more satisfying sex life.

Before I tell you what I’m on about, I’m going to walk you through a slightly strange hypothetical scenario. Bear with! Bear with! All we be revealed in due course.

Jessica Ennis-Hill has completed her golden comeback at the World Championships, winning her first major championship since London 2012 just 13 months after the birth of her son.

Watching the 100m heats at the World Championship in Beijing, the casual observer might be forced to agree with Justin Gatlin’s comments that moral judgments of track athletes might best be left on the sidelines.

There are two big events taking place at the Athletics World Champions 2015 today.

There are two big events taking place at the Athletics World Champions 2015 today.

Justin Gatlin responded to boos from the Beijing crowd by storming to 9.83 seconds in the heats of the 100 metres at the World Championships.

Jessica Ennis-Hill is on course for World Championship gold after Katarina Johnson-Thompson's challenge collapsed in agonising fashion.

It is rare to hear the media rightly celebrate “the most promising generation this country has ever raised” (“A new generation to celebrate”, leading article, 16 August); elsewhere in the world this lack of recognition has much greater consequences than unfair stereotypes.

It was the week that Alan Partridge’s dream finally came true. Eighteen years after desperately pitching “Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank” to the “head of programming at the BBC” in the first episode of I’m Alan Partridge, the former WBO middleweight champion boxer shot a short promo film for a booking website called Hostelworld and declared himself in on the joke.

Inside the darkened auditorium of the Troxy in Stepney, east London, it sounds as though an orchestra is in full swing. But the tremendous noise, which seems to be emanating from the very walls of the Art Deco cinema, is being made by one man playing a remarkable and historic instrument.