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| Video: 40 dead in Ukraine crash The Ukrainian prime minister, Mykola Azarov, tells of carnage after a crowded passenger bus collided with a train in eastern Ukraine. At least 40 people have died and 11 are critically injured. The crash happened near the town of Marhanets, in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The bus driver ignored a siren that indicated an oncoming train and attempted to cross the track guardian.co.uk |
This week: Lord Browne, Chilean miners and Cliff Richard Lucy Mangan on the people making the headlines, for better or worse, in the past seven daysUniversity challengedLord Browne I feel so blessed to be living at a time of such splendid innovations. Take, for example, the recommendations of Lord B's report to scrap the cap on university tuition fees – so dull! So limiting! So altogether bourgeois! – and go for a more stylishly unlimited system instead. I'm so glad to be here, at the end of the long journey from conceptualising education as a broadening of the individual and national intellect and an investment in the country's future to the commercial transaction available only to the already highly advantaged it was surely always intended to be. As the good book says, to those that have shall be given more.So blessed. So glad. We all are.Chilean BSELos 33Best. Story. Ever. I know, it's been everywhere for far too long, thousands of journalists – 61 for each stuck miner – filling the unforgiving minutes with banalities, blatant product placement by sunglasses manufacturers but I don't care.Thirty three men believed dead. Then revealed to be alive – alive! – but entombed 700 metres below ground. Entombed! Entire country grinds into gear to get them out. They start drilling supply and escape routes through half a mile of rock. They keep them fed, watered and fit. Nasa helps Chile construct a steel capsule – steel capsule! – to winch the men up. And do you know what? They only bloody go and do it. All 33 men delivered alive and well back to their waiting families (or, in the case of Johnny Barrios Rojas, both his families) after 69 days – 69 days! – underground.Questions and investigations remain for the mine's owners and Chile's government about a couple of health and safety issues, but in the meantimestill – Best. Story. Ever.Septuagenarian living dollCliff RichardThe eternally youthful, indefinably annoying Bachelor Boy turned 70 this week and celebrated by beginning a series of six concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. No, I'm sorry, tickets sold out within a few hours months ago. Well, you should have got the more nimble of your grandchildren to speed dial for you.He's sold 260m records, had – uniquely - UK No 1 hits in five consecutive decades, given kasquillions to charity and has transcended the need for radio airplay or any other form of media publicity. His legions of fans are now a perpetual popularity machine. He looks 40 but you should see the picture in his attic. He is a national icon, embarrassment and treasure.Happy birthday, Sir Cliff. Please don't ever sing Mistletoe and Wine again.What they said"Tell David Cameron that if he screws up my beloved NHS I'll come back and bloody haunt him."The late, great Claire Rayner, who died on Tuesday."The so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night. It is fantastic at times but it is not going to replace journalism."Andrew Marr keeps the dream alive."I've eaten two diamonds in my life. One was put in a cupcake on Valentine's Day and the guy got so drunk he forgot to tell me ... Never found it, never looked. It's probably lodged in my pancreas." Socialite and possibly not GCSE-in-biology-holder Tara Palmer-Tomkinson."If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not, it is greed." Joan Collins, still enjoying her second career of putting the modern world to rights."It's important not to be an economic girlyman." Arnold Schwarzeneggar, former action star and current governor of failed state California, to Cameron.What we've learned• Gap's new logo was dropped after 2,000 people complained• The new Tate Modern installation comprises 100m handmade porcelain sunflower seeds• 30% of the UK population have no internet access at home• The average US adult walks 5,117 steps a day• Three out of 10 people in Britain have less than £249 in savings… and what we haven't• Who threw the book (literally) at Barack Obama at a campaign event in PhiladelphiaUniversity fundingHigher educationConservative and Liberal Democrat cabinetLiberal DemocratsConservativesLiberal-Conservative coalitionChileCliff RichardMiningMiningLucy Manganguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Chechen Terrorists, Despite a Schism, Come Back Ferociously The attack on the parliament on Chechnya is growing evidence that the old breed of terror has once again dominant in the rebel underground feedproxy.google.com |
Rescuers Search for Missing Tourists Rescuers rappelled down a cliff Monday trying to trace 21 Chinese tourists whose bus is believed to have tumbled off a narrow coastal road in Taiwan as a fierce typhoon lashed east Asia last week. online.wsj.com |
Joshua Tree National Park Kicks-off Restoration Projects in Preparation for 75th Anniversary - Video STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In partnership with the National Parks Conservation Association, Arrowhead® Brand Mountain Spring Water held the first jointly supported, volunteer-based restoration project at the iconic Joshua Tree National Park to help revitalize and restore the park, leading up to its 75th Anniversary. Breaking ground on Saturday, October 23, Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water representatives teamed-up with park officials and community volunteers to restore two highly travelled areas of the park – the Hidden Valley Trailhead and trails leading out to the popular r feedproxy.google.com |