Brush with genius: Einstein's brain cells go on show
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Part of the brain of Albert Einstein, the scientist considered one the most striking intellects in human history, is going on display for the first time in the UK.
Albert Einstein's brain to go on display
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Dr Albert Einstein's brain is going on display for the first time in the UK - with that of an infamous murderer.
Start spreading the news, cheese and chocolate don't mix
Thursday 08 March 2012
Would you? Could you? Nigella Lawson's a fan, Jennifer Saunders fronted the online ad campaign but we're not convinced. Chocolate-flavoured Philadelphia? Surely that's the devil's dairy product.
Album: We Are Augustines, Rise Ye Sunken Ships (Oxcart)
Sunday 04 March 2012
Brooklyn trio We Are Augustines' debut album sounds like it's been pieced together with spare parts from various other big indie-rock bands.
The Saturday Quiz
Saturday 18 February 2012
1. The most populous country in the world where French is the official language is not France. Which country is it?
Bolton take MLS striker Sebastian Le Toux on trial
Thursday 19 January 2012
Bolton manager Owen Coyle has confirmed striker Sebastian Le Toux has joined the club for a week's training.
Boxing: The Meaning Of Ali
Saturday 14 January 2012
As the world's greatest boxer turns 70, James Lawton considers his life and times with the help of Gene Kilroy, the man who shared them more closely than any
Eve Arnold: Photojournalist famed for her intimate portraits of Monroe and Malcolm X
Friday 06 January 2012
My photographs," wrote Eve Arnold in 1978, "are, of necessity, subjective – filtered through my background and education, my prejudices, and the limitations imposed by chance and the time in which I lived."
Band Aid's Christmas No 1 is given the Glee treatment
Monday 12 December 2011
US TV stars will boost charity by introducing song to a new generation
Howard Tate: Soul singer who was given a second chance at a musical career
Friday 09 December 2011
Howard Tate, who died on 2 December aged 72, was a soul singer who was given a second chance at a musical career three decades after being derailed by disputes with industry executives, personal tragedy and drug addiction.
The Seven Deadly Sins, HMV Picture House, Edinburgh<br/>Semiramide, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh<br/>BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Usher Hall, Edinburgh<br/>Queyras / Tharaud, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Sunday 04 September 2011
The Roots, Hammersmith Apollo, London
Friday 26 August 2011
Few groups have the musical courage of The Roots. Philadelphia's favourite hip-hop sons approach a genre overrun with blandness and imitation, with the intelligence and precision of a mathematician, combined with an alchemist's passion for experimentation. What other group, regardless of genre, would not only employ a full-time sousaphone player but start their show with a solo from him? It's hard to imagine anyone else having the nerve, much less the talent, to make it work.
The Roots - Late-night success after a move from hip-hop to house music
Friday 19 August 2011
The Roots' regular gig as resident band on a US chat-show has given the veterans new impetus, their co-leader tells Ian Burrell
Man charged after ton of ivory seized
Thursday 28 July 2011
Officials confiscated roughly a ton of ivory in one of the largest seizures on record and arrested the owner of an African art store who is accused of smuggling carved elephant tusks into the United States.







