Weather

Brown urges G20 to keep spending

Staff await jobs news as Diageo mulls SNP cash offer

Banksy is ruined by mistake

Desperate Housewives star promotes potato brand to youths

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Canada SA refugee ruling 'racist'

Horoscopes

End in sight for 100watt light

johnnie walker/kilmarnock

Hunting Wolves, and Men

Lesbians given equal birth rights

Prize-winning novelist has sight restored

Bristol public given right to decide whether graffiti is art or eyesore

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Ministers under fire for locking up immigrant children

Marine dies as PM visits

Station fire claims 18 homes and two firefighters

E Timor leader rejects criticism

No look back but plenty of anger as Oasis split

Teenager completes record round the world voyage

All smiles at L'Oréal and Boots as cosmetics buck recession

Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing!

Oceans at 13? Concern for teenagers chasing around-the-world records

Tramworks send flagship store's sales off the rails

County tops the list for attacks on birds of prey

Sex addiction therapy could save Silvio Berlusconi’s marriage, says book

Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, dies
New York Times, 26/8/09
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/us/politics/27kennedy.html

Sex addiction therapy could save Silvio Berlusconi’s marriage, says book
Times online, 27/08/09
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6811463.ece 

Sgt Eros stripper charges dropped

Weather stubs out smoker's island stay

Monkeys with three parents that could stop mothers passing on incurable diseases

Weather

ICM poll: Support for Conservatives high despite voters' fear of tax rises

Australians wake to a country in mourning

Dennis the Menace makeover angers family

'Rations' MP takes luxury holiday

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi is free

Glaciers melt, Swiss get some territory from Italy

US data and Bernanke boost leave FTSE at fresh high

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Barclay

Facebook bully jailed: Death threat girl, 18, is first person put behind bars for vicious internet campaign

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Whose Justice?

Afghanistan poll legitimacy fears as Taliban violence keeps voters away

Caster Semenya sex row: 'She's my little girl,' says father

IRB imposes global coaching ban on Dean Richards

British law students sentenced to community service and fined in Brazil insurance fraud

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Sports Report

There's a light

Scores killed as series of blasts hits Baghdad

Heathrow airport hires Alain de Botton

Lego sales buck recession to hit all-time high

Sea worm provides sticky solution

Children risk cancer by eating salami and ham, warns charity

Rail journey time from Edinburgh to Glasgow to be cut to 35 minutes

Schools begin 'lock-in lunches'

Sports Report

Ahmadinejad to nominate three women for cabinet jobs

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USA versus the NHS

Eviction bid threatens Trump resort

chain of terror

Polar bear project moves forward

Heinz and parashooter

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6034794/Skydiver-survives-10000ft-fall-to-the-ground.html

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5heTw52goZXs1EICyXKhBhfbIPohQ

'Cathedral' as old as Stonehenge unearthed

Irish lose passion for potatoes

(Former) World Leaders

Capital tram crisis as new row erupts

Economy to stage 'fragile' recovery next year, says BoE

Lockerbie bomber could be freed from prison next week

Women's boxing gains Olympic spot

US retail sales knock FTSE off highs

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Drug experts advise ban on Spice

Hunt for pirates after ship disappears from UK waters

Police hunt £40m Mayfair jewel heist gang

Crystal ball causes flat fire

Edinburgh fights back

Aung San Suu Kyi found guilty of breaking house arrest

Horoscopes

Baby P couple to be named

Gang of youths force python to bite teenager

Mandelson is in charge – by BlackBerry

Train robber Ronnie Biggs to be freed on medical grounds

Streisand cuts through the clutter with auction of unwanted belongings

Weather

Ministers plan swine flu vaccination in every school

Ian Tomlinson's family accuse police of cover-up over his death

Sports Report

Violent offenders to face restrictions after leaving prison

Is Princes St heading down road to ruin?

World Leaders

Light at the end of recession tunnel

'Public sector jobs will have to be axed'

Swindon scraps permanent speed cameras to save money

St Andrews 'cannot cope with 1000 new hopes'

The day-tripping pensioners who are costing local councils dear

South Korean Fishing Boat Detained by North

Nursing union no longer opposes assisted suicide

I'll do what I like with my money: Jamie Neale

Change ETS and we'll pass it: Turnbull

Come Dine With Me but make sure you empty the bins first

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Brumby plea over violence

Boy, 3, miraculously survives after driving toy truck into river and floating downstream for 8 miles

Clean-up begins after NZ quake

Blog standard approach brings PM to the people

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Missing for 12 days: backpacker Jamie Neale found

Trading Room

"Trading Room" The Age, Business lift-out July 14 2009

Sir Edward Downes and Lady Downes arrange a natural finale

MIG Comparative Returns Index

"Trading Room" The Age, Business lift-out July 13 2009

Obama speaks of hopes for Africa

Virus tour ends with full refund

Please double-click on video to see full anamorphic 4-person version in youtube (sorry Maggie).

New schools curriculum is branded 'not good enough'

Eight British soldiers killed in bloodiest day of Afghan mission

The right to choose

Please click on the video to watch the uncropped video in youtube (sorry again Maggie).

Pressure mounts on Diageo over whiskey plant closure

New dinosaurs found in Australia

Three children dead in flats blaze

Scientists solve mystery of shrinking sheep

Michael Jackson: the wildest conspiracy theories

"Michael Jackson: the wildest conspiracy theories" 

The Telegraph 

June 29 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/michael-jackson/5682778/Michael-Jackson-the-wildest-conspiracy-theories.html

"Michael Jackson spotted with Elvis" 

Weekly World News 

July 1 2009 

http://weeklyworldnews.com/celebs/9563/michael-jackson-spotted-with-elvis/

Horoscopes - June

Tehran reacts with wave of arrests

BA no longer "world's favourite airline'"

Pope condom uproar

Source: MX Melbourne

April 2009

Swine flu declared public health emergency

China believes Kim not so ill

Melbourne's big squeeze

ABOUT HARK!

Hark! is a performance piece being developed The Enlightenments, an exhibition at the Dean Gallery curated by Juliana Engberg for the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival. The performance will run daily from August 6  to September 6 2009. 

The performance involves the musical delivery of the daily news as an introduction into the exhibition. Multi-talented musicians croon the world’s disasters, belt out the horoscopes in an operatic epic, rap the local updates, rock the stock exchange, chant the puzzles and harmonise a sports jazz number. Each day the world events will be summarised and melodified, a distinct tune attributed to each segment and personally heralded to gallery-goers, café patrons and passers-by. 

Each day of the exhibition, new songs will be written and performed, with a specific focus on the projections made in the economic and horoscopic fields, alongside local news and world features. Up until the exhibition begins in Edinburgh, the group will rehearse writing and performing songs in Melbourne. Current posts are all of rehearsals.

Project: Gabrielle de Vietri

Performers: Stuart Bowden, Ben Hjorth, Margaret Paul and Kathryn Sutherland

Music and lyrics written by Stuart Bowden, Gabrielle de Vietri, Ben Hjorth, Margaret Paul and Kathryn Sutherland

For more information about the Edinburgh International Festival Visual Arts Programme, visit

http://www.eif.co.uk/series/enlightenments