Swansea insist a meeting between manager Brendan Rodgers and chairman Huw Jenkins had already been scheduled well before the Northern Irishman became the bookmakers' favourite for the Liverpool job.
Summer 2012: 10 great family travel gadgets
Sunday 27 May 2012
LittleLife's new Animal Wheelie Duffles, in Ladybird and Turtle designs, will delight your little ones and nurture a sense of responsibility. The 20-litre bag has a zip top and telescopic handle; £39.99 (littlelife.co.uk).
Sued for £250m, thanks to Murdoch's meddling
Sunday 27 May 2012
Journalist John Lisners dug the business dirt on a pal of the media tycoon – and paid a heavy price
Oxlade-Chamberlain can lift England, says Ramsey
Sunday 27 May 2012
Man charged with murdering NYC boy in 1979
Saturday 26 May 2012
Thirty-three years to the day after 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished without a trace while walking to catch a school bus, a man accused of strangling him and dumping his body with the trash was arraigned on a murder charge in a locked hospital ward where he was being held as a suicide risk.
Chen's brother flees from home
Friday 25 May 2012
Chen Guangcheng's brother has fled his closely guarded village in eastern China to seek legal advice in Beijing, his lawyer said.
Bride who faked cancer for money pays back donors
Friday 25 May 2012
A mother of two who tricked friends and well-wishers into paying for her wedding and honeymoon in Aruba after falsely claiming she had leukaemia has been freed from jail after paying everyone back.
Solved after 33 years? Case of first missing boy shown on milk carton
Friday 25 May 2012
Man confesses to killing of six-year-old whose disappearance prompted long-running campaign
Mark Zuckerberg saved $111m by selling Facebook shares before stock slumped
Friday 25 May 2012
Investors sue the social networking site, claiming its prospectus for stock listing was misleading
Suspect held over missing boy in 33-year-old murder mystery
Thursday 24 May 2012
It is one of the city's highest profile crimes in history and helped launch a missing children's movement across the United States.
Corruption in China 'as bad as ever'
Thursday 24 May 2012
A branch of Chinese city governments set up to monitor everything from unlicensed street vendors to unauthorised construction is rife with abuse of power, a rights group said yesterday.
Facebook stock climbs after rocky start but still 16 per cent below initial public offering price
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Facebook's stock is climbing higher, a reprieve for shareholders after the stock's rocky inaugural trading day on Friday was followed by a two-day decline.
Trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby released
Wednesday 23 May 2012
A two and a half minute first trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s highly anticipated film adaptation of The Great Gatsby has been released.
I'll Have Another fires rich dreams of US Triple Crown
Monday 21 May 2012
Whatever the fate of the 2,000 Guineas winner Camelot at Epsom in 12 days' time, and whatever his destiny afterwards, at least one Triple Crown dream is still alive. The Kentucky Derby hero I'll Have Another followed up in the second leg of the US version, the Preakness Stakes, on Saturday night and is now bound for the third, next month's Belmont Stakes.
Mother of Lockerbie victim speaks out after death of al-Megrahi
Sunday 20 May 2012
The mother of a young aspiring actress who was killed in the Lockerbie bombing today said she hoped convicted terrorist Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi had died “a painful, horrible death”.







