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THURSDAY 3. JUNE 2010


Italian scientists at risk of charges over earthquake deaths

Scientists and officials told they could face a manslaughter trial over the L'Aquila earthquake in which more than 300 diedSeven senior Italian officials and scientists were today told they risked being tried for manslaughter for failing to evacuate the city of L'Aquila before it was hit by an earthquake last year.According to the website of the newspaper La Repubblica, the heads of Italy's...

Meteorologists track down Monet as he painted London bridges in smog

Scientists have pinpointed exactly where Claude Monet was in the Savoy Hotel when he painted Charing Cross Bridge and Waterloo Bridge in heavy smogThrough a thick blanket of pre-war smog, it is hard to make out the bridge reaching across the Thames and the sun shining weakly above it.Equally unclear is where the artist, Claude Monet, stood to create the painting, one of the "London series" knocked...

Live Q&A: Environment secretary Caroline Spelman

From paid recycling to badger culling, the new secretary of state for environment will answer your questions from 1.15pm today• Read what her predecessor Nick Herbert promisedCaroline Spelman, the new secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, will be answering your questions live today at 1.15pm BST. Please post your questions in the comments below.Defra's brief is broad: from...


WEDNESDAY 2. JUNE 2010


The player: is gaming a path to self-understanding?

Psychologists have many theories about why we play games. And I've certainly had flashes of self-knowledgeI occasionally game with my friend Josh, who like me has had therapy in the past. "Come on," he says, as we pick up our controllers and start firing, "let's go and kill these stand-ins for our parents."It's not necessarily a joke. Cultural theorist Marsha Kinder has suggested that videogame...

Dinosaur heads, antiques and Victorian curios to feature in London art fair

International fine art fair to feature skull of Tyrannosaurus for sale, as well as paintings and ceramic ornamentsIt is not the most obvious exhibit for a fine art and antique fair but it is, unquestionably, old. About 65m years old, give or take.Visitors to this year's London international fine art fair, which opens to the public on Friday will have the chance, among the displays of paintings,...

From the archive, 31 May 1924: A good word for slang

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 31 May 1924FLEET STREET, FRIDAY.With reverent faces the audience at the meeting of the English Society at Bedford College this evening settled themselves to hear Mr. John Galsworthy, the retiring president, deliver an address on expression. Mr. Galsworthy delighted and amused them. He danced over his subject, covering a wide area and flinging...