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2013-05-22 17:04:23 (7 comments, 8 reshares, 20 +1s)

Ministers hold emergency meeting after fatal attack in London street

One dead and two injured in what is feared to be a terror-related attack in Woolwich http://gu.com/p/3g34n

Follow live updates: http://gu.com/p/3g36n

Photo: BBC

2013-05-22 15:01:56 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

Ed Miliband says Eric Schmidt was wrong to argue that Google's tax arrangements was 'just capitalism'. The Labour leader, speaking on Wednesday at +Google's +Big Tent event in London, that Google's practice of paying a tiny fraction of its tax to Britain goes against the company's own ethical principles. He adds he is sorry Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, is not at the event to hear his speech http://gu.com/p/3g3vg/

Follow all on the Google +Big Tent live blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/22/google-big-tent-ed-miliband-eric-schmidt-and-more

2013-05-22 15:00:07 (5 comments, 4 reshares, 12 +1s)

Xbox One: five key points you need to know http://gu.com/p/3g2py

And from our Games editors: Xbox One: Microsoft reveals new console that 'changes everything' http://gu.com/p/3g2fe

Photograph: Nick Adams/Reuters

#xbox  

2013-05-22 14:56:14 (17 comments, 42 reshares, 113 +1s)

Look at this GIF long enough and you can make the train change direction simply by thinking about it http://bzfd.it/10eQwyKg

2013-05-22 09:59:27 (7 comments, 5 reshares, 31 +1s)

Overcrowding in hospital A&E departments in England could lead to more deaths and serious illness, MPs have been warned.  http://gu.com/p/3g289

BUT the chief executive of NHS Confederation has rejected health secretary Jeremy Hunt's claim that changes to GP contract in 2004 are to blame http://gu.com/p/3g2e8

So what is causing the crisis in A&E? Share your thoughts as your own experiences of A&E and out-of-hours care here: http://gu.com/p/3g2jf

Photograph: 1exposure/Alamy

2013-05-22 10:17:32 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 50 +1s)

Today's Guardian front page : Stop playing games with the coalition, Clegg tells Tory right http://gu.com/p/3g2fv/tw

Oklahoma rescuers wind down search for survivors in wake of savage tornado http://gu.com/p/3g2ab/tw

600 Afghan interpreters given right to settle in Britain http://gu.com/p/3g2fm/tw

#ukpolitics #clegg #tories #afghanistan  

2013-05-21 20:00:54 (6 comments, 12 reshares, 115 +1s)

Paso de Cortes, #Mexico: A cloud of ash belches out of Popocatepetl volcano
http://gu.com/p/3g25p

Photograph: Arturo Andrade/AFP/Getty Images

2013-05-21 17:41:13 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 31 +1s)

A first glimpse at Xbox One: http://trib.al/t480QO8 

2013-05-21 15:23:56 (19 comments, 14 reshares, 112 +1s)

#Oklahoma: What are tornadoes, how are they classified and how are they formed? Experts including a meteorologist, storm chaser and pollster answer your questions on the Oklahoma City tornadoes: http://gu.com/p/3g2xk?CMP=SOCNETTXT8763I

Also follow pictures as they come in: http://gu.com/p/3gxzy?CMP=SOCNETTXT8763I

Photograph: Ed Zurga/EPA

2013-05-21 15:00:31 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 28 +1s)

Major Tim Peake will make history when he joins the crew of the International Space Station in 2015. So what can Britain's first official astronaut expect of life onboard? Leo Benedictus reveals what he can expect on the mission http://gu.com/p/3gxj4

Tim Radford traces the story of Britain's involvement in space: http://gu.com/p/3gxjm

At a news conference at the Science Museum in London, where he was announced as the first UK astronaut in space for 20 years, he said it is a great opportunity. Watch the video http://gu.com/p/3gxfk

Photograph: AP

2013-05-21 12:48:45 (23 comments, 11 reshares, 63 +1s)

The controversy over whether parents should share a bed with newborns has been reignited by research showing that babies who do are five times more likely to die suddenly than those who sleep in a cot.

But what about new mothers breastfeeding who cosleep? What about practises in Japan where the cases of SIDs (sudden infant death syndrome) are much lower? Experts from +NCT and Lullaby Trust are answering all these questions and more in our live Q&A NOW:

http://gu.com/p/3gxfz

You can read the full story about the study here: http://gu.com/p/3gxmf

Photograph: Richard Saker

2013-05-21 09:12:04 (73 comments, 34 reshares, 180 +1s)

Oklahoma City tornado: 91 feared dead - follow our live coverage: http://gu.com/p/3gxz2/tw

President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts.

The Oklahoma medical examiner's office said it has been told by the emergency services to expect another 40 bodies on top of the 51 people already confirmed killed, an official said. The 51 included at least 20 children.

#oklahoma #naturaldisasters  

2013-05-21 08:01:26 (26 comments, 2 reshares, 47 +1s)

Guardian front page Tuesday 21 May: Labour saves Cameron's gay marriage bill

http://gu.com/p/3gxng/tw

#equalmarriage #ukpolitics #gaymarriage  

2013-05-20 15:20:51 (50 comments, 17 reshares, 58 +1s)

Is this the man who 'nearly broke the internet'?

Sven Olaf Kamphuis is accused of global cybercrime, but Spanish police found him in a squalid flat with his name on the letterbox. Read the full story: http://gu.com/p/3gx4h

Photograph: Guardian

2013-05-20 13:30:39 (8 comments, 7 reshares, 71 +1s)

UK's first official astronaut Tim Peake, former army helicopter pilot, 'absolutely delighted' at being selected for a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station:

http://gu.com/p/3gx96/tw

"It really is a tremendous privilege to be assigned to a long-duration mission to the ISS," Peake told reporters at a press conference in London. He will blast off on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in November 2015.

#ISS #space

Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

2013-05-20 13:17:40 (15 comments, 53 reshares, 159 +1s)

First big tech announcement by animated gif? 

#Tumblr  will be joining #Yahoo after all. Full story up on the Guardian here: www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/20/yahoo-tumblr-david-karp-marissa-mayer?CMP=SOCNETTXT8763I

Here's the Tumblr announcement: http://staff.tumblr.com/post/50902268806/news & yahoo: http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/50902111638/tumblr-yahoo

2013-05-20 10:49:37 (11 comments, 7 reshares, 58 +1s)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has used subject access request to access British agency chatter, which allegedly calls extradition 'a fit-up': http://gu.com/p/3gx38/tw

The records were revealed by Assange himself in a Sunday night interview with Spanish television programme Salvados. A message from September 2012, read out by Assange, apparently says: "They are trying to arrest him on suspicion of XYZ … It is definitely a fit-up… Their timings are too convenient right after Cablegate."

#wikileaks #julianassange

Photograph: Philip Toscano/PA

2013-05-20 07:59:21 (10 comments, 11 reshares, 45 +1s)

Yahoo in rumoured $1.1bn bid to buy white-hot #Tumblr http://gu.com/p/3gxx9/tw

2013-05-20 07:55:39 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 30 +1s)

Guardian front page Monday 20 May: No 10 pleads with Labour to save gay marriage bill

http://gu.com/p/3gx29/tw

UK spends £2bn housing homeless in B&Bs, hostels and shelters

http://gu.com/p/3gx2x/tw

#gaymarriage #ukpolitics #welfare  

2013-05-17 15:24:38 (25 comments, 19 reshares, 132 +1s)

"The reason why elderly female pensioners aren't using the internet isn't because they have a dread of new technology. It all comes down to the insurance man's actuary table – women generally outlive their spouses. For many widowed women, their golden years are spent in the lonely preoccupation of trying to stretch their pennies into pounds. It is hard to expect a senior citizen to be on Facebook if they can't afford to heat their home or eat a proper diet because of the limits of their state pension."

Harry Leslie Smith, from the class of 1923, writes eloquently for Comment is Free about the benefits of being online for older people - and the barriers to greater participation.

http://gu.com/p/3gv4a

2013-05-17 11:32:23 (21 comments, 16 reshares, 71 +1s)

Greek addicts turn to deadly shisha drug as economic crisis deepens

Growing popularity of 'cocaine of the poor' in Athens has overwhelmed public health authorities already under strain

http://gu.com/p/3fqk7

#Greece #Athens #austerity #EU  

2013-05-17 10:06:44 (16 comments, 38 reshares, 264 +1s)

Nipped fingers and handfuls of guano will be the order of the day for wildlife rangers on the Farne Islands as they embark on an epic census on Friday to discover whether puffin numbers have plummeted after a year of extreme weather.

On +environmentguardian read more about the conservationists counting breeding birds after 'puffin wreck' winter http://gu.com/p/3fqfg + watch a video of a puffin laying an egg: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2013/may/17/puffin-lays-an-egg-video

2013-05-17 07:55:30 (24 comments, 11 reshares, 56 +1s)

Guardian front page Friday 17 May: MP on Google tax avoidance scheme: 'I think that you do evil' http://gu.com/p/3fqyq?CMP=SOCNETTXT8763I

2013-05-16 16:48:59 (31 comments, 12 reshares, 48 +1s)

LulzSec 'hacktivists' handed long jail sentences for hacking

British hackers who masterminded cyber-attacks on global institutions including CIA, Sony, FBI and Nintendo jailed for up to 32 months

http://gu.com/p/3fqfh

Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA

2013-05-16 12:34:52 (3 comments, 14 reshares, 89 +1s)

A rather rude ring-tailed lemur looks out of his window at the zoo in Rostock, Germany. Depending on the weather, the animals in the zoo will move to their outdoor enclosures shortly.

Taken from picture desk: live, our team's pick of the day's most noteworthy images.

http://gu.com/p/3fq2f

Photograph: Bernd Wustneck/AFP/Getty Images

2013-05-16 10:02:24 (26 comments, 19 reshares, 125 +1s)

Nasa's hunt for other planets that could harbour life faces a setback: its Kepler space telescope is broken and, since it is in orbit around the Sun, may prove impossible to fix.

The failure of stabilising systems on the spacecraft could mean an end to the $600m mission's search, although Kepler has already outlived official expectations and the space agency is not yet ready to call it quits. The telescope has discovered scores of planets but only two so far that show strong signs of being habitable.

http://gu.com/p/3fqv9/tw

Photograph: Nasa/Rex features

#nasa  

2013-05-16 07:56:49 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 70 +1s)

Guardian front page Thursday 16 May 2013: Fresh questions for Amazon over pittance it pays in tax http://gu.com/p/3fppj?CMP=SOCNETTXT8763I

2013-05-15 12:46:16 (40 comments, 28 reshares, 105 +1s)

More than seven million adults in the UK have never used the internet, official figures suggest. The data revealed around 1 million more people have ventured on to the web since this time last year.

But the latest statistics show 14% of those over the age of 16 have never accessed material online.

http://gu.com/p/3fpb8

Photograph: Alamy

2013-05-15 09:00:52 (11 comments, 35 reshares, 153 +1s)

Celebrating a great inventor of toys

The British inventor of some of the world's most iconic mechanical toys is being celebrated today with a #GoogleDoodle . 

Frank Hornby was born 150 years ago in Liverpool, and began by cutting out pieces of metal to construct bridges and buildings - this led to Meccano, Dinky Toys and Hornby Model Railways. 

You can see the #Doodle  on google.co.uk and read more about Hornby in this article from +The Guardian: http://goo.gl/hBKq5 

2013-05-15 07:57:37 (11 comments, 12 reshares, 40 +1s)

BlackBerry is making its Messenger (BBM) real-time messaging service available on Apple's iPhone and iPad and Google's Android platforms from summer, abandoning the platform exclusivity that had for years been a crucial tool in attracting and retaining users.

2013-05-15 08:33:56 (3 comments, 7 reshares, 41 +1s)

Guardian front page, Wednesday 15 May: Social services failed me, says abuse ring girl 

Top stories: Oxford child sex abuse ring: social services failed me, says victim http://gu.com/p/3fp2n/tw 

A&E care requires overhaul amid rising pressure of patient numbers – report http://gu.com/p/3fp3k/tw

British male identity crisis 'spurring machismo and heartlessness' http://gu.com/p/3fpv2/tw

2013-05-14 17:03:23 (71 comments, 70 reshares, 161 +1s)

A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with diggers and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities have announced.

The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said on Tuesday that the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial centre dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.

http://gu.com/p/3fzky

Photograph: Jaime Awe/AP

2013-05-14 13:06:10 (17 comments, 18 reshares, 91 +1s)

"Having watched this fantastically unthinking and heavy-handed adaptation, the opening gala of this year's Cannes festival, I feel the only way to make it less subtle would be to let Michael Bay direct it. As it is, the task has fallen to Baz Luhrmann, the director of Moulin Rouge! and Australia, a man who can't see a nuance without calling security for it to be thrown off his set."

Peter Bradshaw reviews The Great Gatsby for Guardian Film - and he's not too impressed.

http://gu.com/p/3fzfg

#TheGreatGatsby #film #BazLuhrmann  

2013-05-14 10:36:44 (26 comments, 9 reshares, 43 +1s)

Public support for the European project has fallen and distrust between countries is growing, according to a new survey released overnight that shows the damage caused by the region's debt crisis over the last few years.

The respected Washington-based Pew Research Centre warned that support for the EU has slid over the last 12 months, from 60% in 2012 to just 45% this year.

http://gu.com/p/3fzb3

Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP

#eu   #europe #eurozone  

2013-05-14 07:55:47 (23 comments, 7 reshares, 20 +1s)

The Obama administration has opened up a new front in its battle against media freedom by seizing phone records from the offices of the Associated Press news agency in what appeared to be an effort to track down the source who disclosed an alleged Yemen terrorist plot story.

2013-05-14 07:50:37 (30 comments, 25 reshares, 78 +1s)

Angelina Jolie has revealed she has had a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer, and has gone public with the news to raise awareness.

2013-05-14 07:50:04 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

Guardian front page, Tuesday 14 May: Cameron olive branch on EU as Ukip soars

http://gu.com/p/3fz8p?CMP=SOCNETTXT8763I

2013-05-13 16:49:19 (13 comments, 22 reshares, 81 +1s)

'It's real, global warming, it's real.' - Newtok resident

Guardian US' multimedia report on America's first climate refugees: Newtok, Alaska is losing ground to the sea at a dangerous rate and for its residents, exile is inevitable.

http://gu.com/p/3fhjk

2013-05-13 11:29:50 (37 comments, 92 reshares, 201 +1s)

Arsenic in your beer? 10 gross ingredients you didn't know were in your food

Since the horsemeat scandal, more of us than ever before are holding a microscope up to what we eat. But no matter how many labels you read, you could still be consuming things you'd rather put on your "do not eat" list. From human hair in our bread to fish bladder in our beer, there are a lot of additives and food processing techniques that employ ingredients and chemicals few would classify as "appetising". It's a reminder, frankly, that non-processed foods are your best bet.

http://gu.com/p/3fnj3

Photograph: Alamy

2013-05-13 09:40:24 (9 comments, 15 reshares, 74 +1s)

A World Health Organisation (WHO) official has said it seems likely that a new coronavirus that has killed at least 18 people in the Middle East and Europe can be passed between humans, but only after prolonged contact.

A virus from the same family triggered the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) that swept the world after emerging in Asia and killed 775 people in 2003.

http://gu.com/p/3fngj

Photograph: Health Protection Agency/AFP/Getty Images

2013-05-13 07:47:30 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 35 +1s)

Today's Guardian front page : EU referendum: cabinet crisis for David Cameron as ministers break ranks

http://gu.com/p/3fnf3/tw

The long goodbye day: Fergie time draws to a happy close

http://gu.com/p/3fnfd/tw

#alexferguson #football #EU #ukpolitics  

2013-05-14 18:55:57 (6 comments, 28 reshares, 64 +1s)

20 ways to keep your internet identity safe from hackers

Do you use the same password for all websites? Do you overshare on Facebook? If so, you're a target for cybercriminals – whose computer scams are costing Britain £27bn a year. We asked experts for their top tips to beat the fraudsters:

http://gu.com/p/3fkkn/tw

#internet #onlineidentity #fraud #hacking

2013-05-12 15:02:32 (1 comments, 5 reshares, 50 +1s)

Why we're watching: Zoom Rockman

Zoom Rockman is a 12-year-old prodigy who writes, illustrates and biannually publishes his own internationally acclaimed comic, The Zoom! It's a snappy, satirical critique of urban life – the new issue tackles the horsemeat scandal – with characters like Skanky Pigeon and celebrity cameos such as Boris Johnson. It's genuinely hilarious.

He's been described as "the future of comics", is on Vogue's Hot List of 2013 and was invited to 10 Downing Street.

http://gu.com/p/3fkpy/tw

Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer

#comics #entrepreneur #illustration

2013-05-13 17:34:43 (21 comments, 21 reshares, 59 +1s)

How to spot a murderer's brain: http://gu.com/p/3fy86/tw

Do your genes, rather than upbringing, determine whether you will become a criminal? Adrian Raine believed so – and breaking that taboo put him on collision course with the world of science

Photograph: Public domain

2013-05-11 15:06:06 (11 comments, 34 reshares, 94 +1s)

Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online

Twitter, Facebook, Google… we know the internet is driving us to distraction. But could sitting at your computer actually calm you down? We investigate the slow web movement

http://gu.com/p/3fkkz

Photograph: Aaron Tilley for the Guardian

2013-05-11 09:01:30 (6 comments, 15 reshares, 74 +1s)

Star Trek Into Darkness: how it was made, by the people who made it

JJ Abrams got 'the band back together' for his big budget sequel. We meet the key players to talk period hair, blue drinks and 'sexy Klingons'
http://gu.com/p/3fkp2

2013-05-11 00:04:40 (24 comments, 38 reshares, 170 +1s)

Relax! It's Friday...

It's a hard life being a panda. This one is having a little nap in a tree at the Panda Valley Park in Dujiangyan, southwest China.
http://gu.com/p/3fm9h
Photograph: HAP/Quirky China News/Rex

2013-05-10 10:56:52 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 21 +1s)

The Guardian Film Show is out: Star Trek Into Darkness, Mud, Village at the End of the World and A Hijacking - watch the video review

2013-05-10 14:57:16 (12 comments, 5 reshares, 63 +1s)

Guardian front page Friday 10 May

Ariel Castro: Ohio prosecutors may seek death penalty for kidnap suspect http://gu.com/p/3fm7k

100 of UK's richest people concealing billions in offshore tax havens http://gu.com/p/3fm6m/tw 

2013-05-09 17:05:54 (13 comments, 23 reshares, 55 +1s)

Huggies Brazil has launched a new app that tweets you to tell you when your baby has wet its nappy. Think that's bad? G2 shortcuts rounds up some of the worst apps ever

http://gu.com/p/3fym6