The Wellcome Trust, Britain’s largest charitable foundation, is launching its first bond to raise money to invest in scientific research ranging from the human genome to bird flu and malaria. The trust is following the lead of US organisations to become the first UK charity to sell a public bond, it said yesterday.
It hopes to [...]

Mr Butso, like the hundreds of other men and women who stand here, has lost his voting card for the upcoming elections. He was comfortable as a Muslim and a Briton, proud of his community and, after embarking on a career in the armed forces, keen to serve his country. L/Cpl Hashmi, 24, was killed [...]

All but one of the men are said to have passed through a network based in London.The men – Mourad Benchellali, 25, Nizar Sassi, 26, Brahim Yadel, 34, Imad Achab Kanouni, 29, Khaled Ben Mustapha, 34, and Redouane Khalid, 38 – were released from Guantanamo into French custody in 2004.All but one have since been [...]

One year on from Live8, Roger Waters returns to Hyde Park, the scene of his one-off reunion with the band he’s been estranged from for 20 years, to headline the first night of the Hyde Park Calling festival. Warner had a famous run-in with the vigilant Beckett estate when it banned her production of Footfalls, [...]

Yet I, like any true cricket fan, can vividly remember the black-and-white images of him bowling, especially the moment when he took his 300th Test wicket at the Oval in 1964, when the Australian Neil Hawke edged a gentle outswinger to Colin Cowdrey at slip. The act was followed by an interview on the Pavilion [...]

She was here at the All England Club yesterday, looking relaxed despite her singles exit, and at ease enough to stand for 20 minutes in the shade of the press centre while talking happily on her mobile and simultaneously sending an e-mail.. Andre Agassi has never exactly been a behemoth of the courts. The era [...]