Guardian

guardian.co.uk — The most practical - or, at least, the more practical - Republican candidate is, after all the high jinks, supposed to win, which has been the singular case for Mitt Romney. But it is now suddenly quite possible that the least-practical, most far-fetched figure, will pull it off.

guardian.co.uk — Related informationOther lives: National newspaper journalist who worked for the Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times Journalists' death toll increases The number of journalists killed around the world increased in 2003, with Iraq standing out as the most dangerous assignment. Comments on this page are now closed.

guardian.co.uk — The BBC should have been free to drop Miriam O'Reilly from Countryfile without attracting any accusations of age discrimination, according to comedian Rowan Atkinson, in a controversial intervention into the debate about the lack of older women on television.

guardian.co.uk — The company at the centre of a police investigation into an alleged abuse of government back-to-work contracts compelled jobseekers to work unpaid in its own offices for at least a month at a time, the Guardian can reveal.

guardian.co.uk — The French photographer Remi Ochlik has died in Syria after a shell hit a safe house for journalists in Homs. Here we display some of his work

guardian.co.uk — Your Royal Highness, ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured and humbled to be speaking to you at this service tonight to remember the journalists and their support staff who gave their lives to report from the war zones of the 21st century. I have been a war correspondent for most of my professional life.

guardian.co.uk — The career and reputation of the scientist behind the Heartland Institute exposé was in jeopardy on Wednesday night, after his employers said they were reviewing his use of deception to obtain confidential documents.

guardian.co.uk — Marie Colvin, who has been killed in the Syrian city of Homs during an artillery attack, had a knack of getting to places where other journalists had not been, getting there first and staying when others had long gone.

guardian.co.uk — 7.00pm: Welcome to live coverage of the 20th and perhaps final debate between the GOP presidential candidates, this time in sunny Arizona.

guardian.co.uk — Claim of 500 defectors joining Free Syrian ArmyLast day of Mubarak's trial in EgyptNine reported dead in Yemen election violence 8.55am: Two foreign journalists have been killed in Homs today, according to an unconfirmed report from al-Jazeera citing activists in the city.

guardian.co.uk — Marie Colvin, who has been killed by a shell in Syria aged 56, was a fearless but never foolhardy war correspondent who believed passionately in the need to report on conflicts from the frontline. In a career spanning 30 years, she covered wars from around the world for the Sunday Times and was renowned for her compassionate, clear writing.

guardian.co.uk — Armchair scuba divers across the world and marine conservationists will soon be able to immerse themselves in the most spectacular survey of the Great Barrier Reef ever undertaken, thanks to a new research project unveiled by Google and its partners on Thursday.

guardian.co.uk — Tony Blair's wife to take action against Glenn Mulcaire and NI over the alleged hacking of her phone by News of the World Cherie Blair, the wife of the former prime minister, is suing News International and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire over the alleged hacking of her phone by the News of the World.

guardian.co.uk — Related informationOther lives: National newspaper journalist who worked for the Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times Journalists' death toll increases The number of journalists killed around the world increased in 2003, with Iraq standing out as the most dangerous assignment. Comments on this page are now closed.

guardian.co.uk — From 2007 to 2009, during the process of gathering material for a non-fiction book on India, I often found myself exposed to the aspirations of its upper and middle classes.

guardian.co.uk — Familiar faces from The Killing and Borgen return in ITV3's new Those Who Kill First Ulrik Strange, Sarah Lund's sidekick from The Killing, turned up in Borgen as glamorous political husband Philip Christensen. Then weedy news editor Torben Friis was revealed to be Lund's previous sidekick, Jan Meyer.

guardian.co.uk — German physicist, whose experiments led to the wireless telegraph and the radio, has his 155th birthday marked Google's latest animated doodle celebrates the 155th birthday of Heinrich Hertz, the German physicist whose experiments with electromagnetic waves led to the development of the wireless telegraph and the radio.

guardian.co.uk — A year or two before the phone-hacking scandal engulfed News International I was one of a small group who interviewed Rupert Murdoch in New York. At the time I was chairman of the House of Lords communications committee and, unlike some we interviewed, Murdoch set out with clarity just how he saw his role as a newspaper proprietor.

guardian.co.uk — The French photographer Remi Ochlik has died in Syria after a shell hit a safe house for journalists in Homs. Here we display some of his work

guardian.co.uk — The deaths of veteran Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, and the rising toll of civilian dead in Syria, has prompted renewed calls for an end to the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

guardian.co.uk — One of the biggest talents of his generation, photojournalist killed after shell hits safe house for journalists in Homs, Syria Remi Ochlik, 28, who has been killed in Homs alongside the veteran war reporter Marie Colvin, was an award-winning French photojournalist, considered one of the biggest talents of a new generation of photographer-reporters.

guardian.co.uk — 7.00pm: Welcome to live coverage of the 20th and perhaps final debate between the GOP presidential candidates, this time in sunny Arizona.

guardian.co.uk — Nearly four years after the NYPD listed his name in documents aimed at uncovering potential terrorists, Jawad Rasul is speaking out. The 24-year-old says he would like to help the department in its efforts at fighting homegrown threats. One of the first steps, he argues, is eliminating the kinds of covert surveillance programs that have targeted people like him.

guardian.co.uk — 7.00pm: Welcome to live coverage of the 20th and perhaps final debate between the GOP presidential candidates, this time in sunny Arizona.

guardian.co.uk — Four former employees have been arrested at welfare-to-work company A4e, whose chair is adviser to David Cameron A welfare-to-work company at the centre of a criminal investigation has previously had to repay public funds on five separate occasions after government investigations into fraud allegations found evidence of "irregularities", the Guardian can disclose.

guardian.co.uk — • Jersey to be used against Holland next Wednesday • First England top to consist solely of red and white Umbro have unveiled the latest England jersey that will make its debut in England's friendly against Holland next Wednesday.

guardian.co.uk — Journalists moderating the Republican debates have their priorities, you have yours. But do they match up? The Guardian and NYU's Studio 20 studied all the questions journalists have asked during the 20 Republican debates held so far. The results reveal the obsessions of the campaign press, and what they think the presidential election is about.

guardian.co.uk — 7.00pm: Welcome to live coverage of the 20th and perhaps final debate between the GOP presidential candidates, this time in sunny Arizona.

guardian.co.uk — What gets asked at the debates is a good reflection of what journalists think the 2012 campaign is about. After all, reporters could ask about almost anything, right? (Even pizza.) So we decided to examine all the questions that have been posed to the Republican candidates in the 20 debates since May 5 2011.

guardian.co.uk — The madness of matchplay claimed another victim here as Luke Donald, the defending champion and world No1, was run out of town by the man formerly known as the Big Easy.

guardian.co.uk — The catchphrase of Frank Carson was "It's the way I tell 'em". The Belfast-born comedian, who has died aged 85, had an ingenuous, robust and manically assertive way with a gag, but could sometimes be almost uniquely insensitive to the possible effect on other people.

guardian.co.uk — The BBC should have been free to drop Miriam O'Reilly from Countryfile without attracting any accusations of age discrimination, according to comedian Rowan Atkinson, in a controversial intervention into the debate about the lack of older women on television.

guardian.co.uk — London 2012: table tennis player Joanna Parker – video profile Joanna Parker, Great Britain's top women's table tennis athlete and Olympic hopeful, is challenged by the Guardian's Barry Glendenning to a game of 'wiff-waff'.

guardian.co.uk — 7.00pm: Welcome to live coverage of the 20th and perhaps final debate between the GOP presidential candidates, this time in sunny Arizona.

guardian.co.uk — Each day on the Newsdesk live blog, the Guardian's national news team will bring you the news as we break it, explain how we choose what we report and why – and ask you to get involved. Send us your ideas, evidence and experiences to help shape our coverage.

guardian.co.uk — We've asked readers and colleagues to take a look at our findings and tell us what topics they think have been underrepresented, and they came back with some interesting questions just in time for tonight's debate.

guardian.co.uk — Sky1 has swooped for Chickens, a sitcom starring The Inbetweeners' Simon Bird and Joe Thomas after Channel 4 decided not to go ahead with a full series. The satellite broadcaster will regard it as quite a coup - or should that be coop?

guardian.co.uk — Despite the £50,000 bonus cap, HSBC will still be able to hand its star players the £200,000 in cash they were expecting by issuing shares and selling them immediately When HSBC announces on Monday that it will cap cash bonuses for UK staff at £50,000 one thing is clear: it should not be interpreted as a sign of bonus restraint.

guardian.co.uk — ASA clears advert featuring boy copying football stars by spitting on the field, despite complaints it was offensive. By Mark Sweney ASA says campaign is an accurate portrayal of the show despite more than 300 complaints that it is offensive and racist The advertising watchdog has cleared Channel 4's ad campaign for Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, despite more than 300 complaints from members of the public and the Traveller community that it is offensive and racist.

guardian.co.uk — The veteran Sunday Times correspondent, Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik have been killed in the Syrian city of Homs after a shell hit the house in which they were staying. Two other foreign reporters as well as seven activists from the ravaged Bab al-Amr neighbourhood were also wounded in the deadliest attack on western media since the Syrian uprising began almost one year ago.

guardian.co.uk — • Australian diver said Daley must live with medal pressure• Daley competes at Fina World Cup on Thursday One of Tom Daley's main Olympic rivals has described as "curious" his attempt to manage medal expectations in the wake of the Briton's public dispute with his coach.

guardian.co.uk — The former boss of Greggs, who built the bakery business into one of the UK's most successful high street chains, has become the first senior executive to break ranks with his peers and attack the level of boardroom pay in corporate Britain.

guardian.co.uk — Journalists and media workers killed covering the Arab spring uprisings since January 2011 Marie Colvin (Sunday Times): 22 February 2012, Homs Remi Ochlik (freelance photographer): 22 February 2012, Homs Rami al-Sayed (video blogger): 22 February, 2012, Homs Anthony Shadid (New York Times): 17 February 2012, near Turkish border Mazhar Tayyara (freelance): 4 February 2012, Homs Shukri Abu al-Burghul (al-Thawra and Radio Damascus): 3 January 2012, Damascus Basil al-Sayed (freelance): 27 December 2011, Homs Ferzat Jarban (freelance): 19 or 20 November 2011, Al-Qasir Wael Mikhael (al-Tareeq): 9 October 2011, Cairo Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud (al-Ta'awun): 4 February 2011, Cairo Hassan al-Wadhaf (Arabic Media Agency): 24 September 2011, Sana'a Fuad al-Shamri (al-Saeeda TV): 22 October 2011, Sana'a Jamal al-Sharaabi (al-Masdar): 18 March 2011, in Sana'a Chris Hondros (Getty Images): 20 April 2011, Misrata Tim Hetherington (freelance photographer): 20 April 2011, Misrata Anton Hammerl (freelance): 5 April 2011, near Brega Mohamed Shaglouf (freelance): 15 March 2011, Ajdabiya Ali Hassan al-Jaber (al-Jazeera): 13 March 2011, near Benghazi Karim Fakhrawi (al-Wasat): 12 April 2011, Manama Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri (freelance): 9 April 2011, Al-Dair Lucas Mebrouk Dolega (European Pressphoto Agency): 17 January 2011, Tunis Source: Committee to Protect Journalists

guardian.co.uk — Claimants complain to their MPs about their experiences on the Work Programme A number of people have come forward with descriptions of what they perceive as poor treatment at the hands of A4e following the news coverage the company has received this week.

guardian.co.uk — A society that is not prepared to accept the odd flash of nipple is a society that is not prepared to accept breastfeeding It's not easy being a colossally successful social network. This might sound like sarcasm, but it's not; it's hard to formulate rules that allow 845 million users to express themselves without offering grievous offence, while taking account of laws in scores of jurisdictions.

guardian.co.uk — Recently my husband and I separated, and over the course of a few weeks the life we'd made broke apart, like a jigsaw dismantled into a heap of broken-edged pieces. "The new reality" was a phrase that kept coming up: people used it to describe my situation, as though it might represent a kind of progress.

guardian.co.uk — A year or two before the phone-hacking scandal engulfed News International I was one of a small group who interviewed Rupert Murdoch in New York. At the time I was chairman of the House of Lords communications committee and, unlike some we interviewed, Murdoch set out with clarity just how he saw his role as a newspaper proprietor.

guardian.co.uk — If you've ever been given a local anaesthetic, you'll know about the effects - and the side effects - of these drugs. For example, dentists usually inject lidocaine into the gum before filling a cavity or pulling a tooth out, to numb the jaw quadrant on which the procedure is being performed.

guardian.co.uk — Bob McDonnell requests amendments to bill, with requirement for women to undergo vaginal ultrasounds removed Virginia governor Bob McDonnell has performed a U-turn on a controversial bill which would have forced women seeking first trimester abortions to undergo an invasive transvaginal ultrasound.

guardian.co.uk — Scientists have doubled the power output of a "bacteria battery" by selecting microbes from a UK river estuary, including one normally found in space. The development takes microbial power technology a stage nearer its goal of providing a portable, independent and renewable source of power for use with low-energy devices and in parts of the world without electricity.

guardian.co.uk — For more than 30 years, Colvin filed tough, humane, highly intelligent reports from the world's frontlines When hundreds of Syrians have already died under the relentless bombardment raining down on the city of Homs, it might seem invidious to single out one woman.

guardian.co.uk — When I suggested I should write about Pinterest, the technology editor chortled in return: "Everyone says It Is For Girls. You are a Girl. Therefore you are Perfect to do it." And that's pretty much the perception of Pinterest, the latest social media hot thing.

guardian.co.uk — Highly policed and choreographed, yet prone to mishap and mismatch, the red carpet moment should be given more prominence at the Academy Awards Oscar weekend is approaching, and despite the tonnes of commentary that attach to every aspect of the Academy Awards, there is one tradition that could do with more critical scrutiny: the "red carpet interview".

guardian.co.uk — Government says honorific is an 'unjustified and unnecessary reference to women's marital status' and should be removed It was the preferred form of address for the fashion designer Coco Chanel and a handful of Gallic screen stars.

guardian.co.uk — The diplomatic options for a solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis narrowed on Wednesday after a team of UN nuclear inspectors returned from Tehran without agreement on visiting a suspect site.

guardian.co.uk — The former boss of Greggs, who built the bakery business into one of the UK's most successful high street chains, has become the first senior executive to break ranks with his peers and attack the level of boardroom pay in corporate Britain.

guardian.co.uk — After councils and care units, now schools are being encouraged to imitate the department store's stakeholder structure Once upon a time, we knew three things about John Lewis. One: it's a very nice, very middle-class department store. Two: it owns Waitrose, that very nice, very middle-class supermarket.

guardian.co.uk — In a season of good shots Paul Lawrie produced his best of the lot to defeat Justin Rose on the final hole their contest on the opening day of the Accenture World Match Play in Arizona.

guardian.co.uk — The Football Association chairman, David Bernstein, will on Thursday brief FA councillors on proposals that look set to head off the threat of legislative intervention in the way the game is run but may leave the government looking for further assurances about future reform.

guardian.co.uk — Once, tweeters used the hashtag to support a man who joked about an airport - now they're fighting for the NHS It all kicked off with Paul Chambers. Remember him?

guardian.co.uk — • Manchester City manager has 'no problem' with Tevez• Argentinian has not played for club since September The Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini said on Wednesday he had "no problem" with Carlos Tevez and the striker could be considered for selection in "two or three weeks".

guardian.co.uk — Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs has denied any suggestion it has treated Rangers harshly over tax issues. The club have been plunged into administration, leading to a swathe of negative publicity surrounding their running by Craig Whyte, the businessman who bought Rangers from Sir David Murray last May.

guardian.co.uk — Guardian report Match facts Ratings Scottish Premier League 2011-12Celtic 2 Mulgrew 32, Forrest 75 Dunfermline 0 Celtic's lead in the table is such that not even complacency represents a danger to them. That margin over Rangers, whose troubles are an apparently continued cause for celebration among the home support, now sits at 20 points.

guardian.co.uk — Given everything in football - tactically speaking - is relative, perhaps nothing can ever truly be dead. Systems and styles of play that have seemed to have outlived their usefulness drift away, fade from consciousness and lie dormant, waiting for the game to forget about them so they can be triumphantly reintroduced.

guardian.co.uk — Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1980) came second, behind Blade Runner, in a recent BFI poll of its members' top movies. In outline, it's one of the simplest films ever made: a guide, or Stalker, takes two people, Writer and Professor, into a forbidden area called the Zone, at the heart of which is the Room, where your deepest wish will come true.

guardian.co.uk — Claim of 500 defectors joining Free Syrian ArmyLast day of Mubarak's trial in EgyptNine reported dead in Yemen election violence 8.55am: Two foreign journalists have been killed in Homs today, according to an unconfirmed report from al-Jazeera citing activists in the city.

guardian.co.uk — It is the perfect place to meet a man from the KGB. Boris Karpichkov - former KGB operative and double agent - suggests we meet under the shadow of Marble Arch in central London. I am late.

guardian.co.uk — Iranian censors have blocked access to a number of news websites sympathetic to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, adding further fuel to a high-level power struggle at the heart of the Islamic regime.

guardian.co.uk — The administrator at Portsmouth has made 33 staff redundant, including the chief executive David Lampitt, and asked the players to defer their wages, in an effort to keep the financially stricken club in business.

guardian.co.uk — Get a suit. Drone on. You could be work and pensions minister. You just need to adjust your attitude A former shelf-stacker writes! Me! Who knows if Iain Duncan Smith or Nick Clegg share my expertise in this area? I did not do it to get the "habit" of work, but for cash.

guardian.co.uk — Dutch government and the IMF and its managing director, Christine Lagarde, want the ESM to embrace funds still untouched within the current rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) Germany threatened to undermine this week's last-minute €130bn (£110bn) deal to bail out Greece by refusing to increase the firewalls to prevent the eurozone debt crisis spreading.

guardian.co.uk — Get a suit. Drone on. You could be work and pensions minister. You just need to adjust your attitude A former shelf-stacker writes! Me! Who knows if Iain Duncan Smith or Nick Clegg share my expertise in this area? I did not do it to get the "habit" of work, but for cash.

guardian.co.uk — It isn't an autopilot, and the driverless car is still miles off the garage forecourt. But it could save you a packet on petrol As I turned the wheel to steer the car through the roundabout, there was a shriek and the flash of warning lights. Beside me, Wayne Gilbert smiled.

m.guardian.co.uk — Marie Colvin, who has been killed in the Syrian city of Homs during an artillery attack, had a knack of getting to places where other journalists had not been, getting there first and staying when others had long gone.

guardian.co.uk — The near collapse of a so-called "supergrass" trial against terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland proves the use of such evidence can only undermine public faith in the judicial process, Amnesty International has warned.

guardian.co.uk — Stan Greenberg: 'Republican candidate may not be winner of primaries' – video Economist and Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg says the winner of the Republican Party's primary and caucus season might not be the final choice when the GOP presidential candidate is presented in June.

guardian.co.uk — Journalists moderating the Republican debates have their priorities, you have yours. But do they match up? The Guardian and NYU's Studio 20 studied all the questions journalists have asked during the 20 Republican debates held so far. The results reveal the obsessions of the campaign press, and what they think the presidential election is about.

guardian.co.uk — Premier League clubs have promised to work closely with specialist e-crime police officers to clamp down on racist abuse on internet message boards and Twitter that is aimed at footballers, pundits and fans.

guardian.co.uk — Related informationGordon Brown is blaming the economic downturn for Labour's electoral defeat but there are plenty of other reasons for the poor results The child poverty map of Britain How many British children live in poverty? New data from Save the Children starts to quantify it.

m.guardian.co.uk — Mario Monti's "grey" government of technocrats and professors in Italy may not be so dull after all. Thanks to a transparency drive which compelled ministers to list income and assets online, Italians have discovered to their surprise that the cabinet includes millionaires and fans of Harley-Davidson and Vespa.

guardian.co.uk — There are few companies that can afford to not label themselves as green and something similar is happening to the word social. From corporate social responsibility to social business to social investment, previously limited to charitable activities and workers' rights, social is on the march to becoming the new green.

guardian.co.uk — Your Royal Highness, ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured and humbled to be speaking to you at this service tonight to remember the journalists and their support staff who gave their lives to report from the war zones of the 21st century. I have been a war correspondent for most of my professional life.

guardian.co.uk — Barack Obama showed his vocal chops when he sang Sweet Home Chicago at a White House tribute concert as part of Black History Month. The US president played coy before accepting the microphone from Mick Jagger and performing a duet of sorts with blues legend BB King.

guardian.co.uk — The British Horseracing Authority said on Wednesday that it will work to repair its relationship with the RSPCA in the wake of the society's angry reaction to proposed changes to the BHA's whip rules and penalties, which were announced on Tuesday.

guardian.co.uk — The deaths of veteran Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, and the rising toll of civilian dead in Syria, has prompted renewed calls for an end to the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

guardian.co.uk — Related informationOther lives: National newspaper journalist who worked for the Sunday Telegraph and Sunday TimesObituary: Eminent Sunday Times journalist and Vietnam war reporter obsessed by his origins and identity.

guardian.co.uk — When the most memorable moment is Adele being cut off mid-speech, it makes you wonder if awards are really good TV This morning, everyone's talking about Adele's acceptance speech at the Brit awards. Thanks to a rambling Damon Albarn and the imminent arrival of the News at Ten, she barely started to thank anyone before an apologetic James Corden cut her off mid-sentence.

guardian.co.uk — Andrew Lansley is accused of bullying staff who speak out against NHS reforms after senior doctor is told to attend hearing Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, has been accused of "bullying" NHS staff who speak out against his NHS shakeup after a senior doctor who signed a letter criticising the proposed changes was threatened with disciplinary action.

guardian.co.uk — London mayor acknowledged public concern and vowed to pressure committee to release a detailed breakdown London mayor Boris Johnson has vowed to pressure London 2012 organisers to be more transparent over how tickets have been allocated, particularly for blue riband events.

guardian.co.uk — HSBC is issuing £1.7bn of new shares to meet bonus payouts and awards to its 300,000 staff ahead of the publication of its full year results on Monday HSBC is issuing £1.7bn of new shares to meet bonus payouts and awards to its 300,000 staff ahead of the publication of its full year results on Monday.

guardian.co.uk — Tony Blair's wife to take action against Glenn Mulcaire and NI over the alleged hacking of her phone by News of the World Cherie Blair, the wife of the former prime minister, is suing News International and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire over the alleged hacking of her phone by the News of the World.

guardian.co.uk — Subject: Delete This At Your Peril FROM HIS ROYAL HIGHNEST, JACK THOMPSON Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business. I am JACK THOMPSON, only son of late King Arawi of tribal land. My father was a very wealthy traditional ruler, poisoned by his rivals.

guardian.co.uk — Halfway through the Oscars, a triumphant yell could wake light sleepers in Newcastle if the shoestring budget film Incident in New Baghdad walks off with the short documentary award.

guardian.co.uk — Staff at the National Trust property Dunham Massey in Cheshire talk Martin Wainwright through the process of preparing it for reopening on 25 February after its hibernation. All photographs by Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

guardian.co.uk — In an essay on the writer Seán O'Faoláin, Conor Cruise O'Brien wrote about ideas of childhood and memory: "There is for all of us a twilight zone of time, stretching back for a generation or two before we were born, which never quite belongs to the rest of history.

guardian.co.uk — On Saturday we announce the winner of our joint competition with publishers Faber to design a new cover for the schools' edition of Lord of the Flies. Here's the shortlist

guardian.co.uk — Related information Chinese pepper drives away voles Farmers could stop prairie voles eating their crops by spraying extracts from Szechuan pepper around the plants. Leading scientists seek action over biological weapons World leaders in science are today warning that a concerted effort must be made to stop the worldwide spread of the expertise and technology to develop biological weapons.

guardian.co.uk — Alex Salmond has been challenged to hold his referendum on Scottish independence a year earlier than planned after UK ministers insisted it could be staged within 18 months. Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, accused the first minister of deliberately delaying the poll, and released a legislative timetable showing that the referendum could be held in September 2013, a full year earlier than Salmond has proposed.

guardian.co.uk — Tony Blair's wife to take action against Glenn Mulcaire and NI over the alleged hacking of her phone by News of the World Cherie Blair, the wife of the former prime minister, is suing News International and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire over the alleged hacking of her phone by the News of the World.

guardian.co.uk — Defence committee report says government must approach threats with seriousness they deserve Britain is vulnerable to attack from space-fired nuclear weapons and "space weather" - the result of changes in solar activity - and the government is not doing enough to combat its potentially devastating impact, a cross-party group of MPs has warned.