Category Archives: The Guardian News

DKNY anniversary show

Travel, life and style: Donna Karan’s label celebrates its 20th anniversary on a catwalk painted in a yellow gloss
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Horse face wins by a nose

Culture: Box office receipts from this weekend show unpopular films struggling to place in the top five
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Freddie and Fannie nationalised

Move to take mortgage lenders into public ownership welcomed
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Asif Ali Zardari: the godfather as president

Comment is free America: Tariq Ali: With his record of corruption, Zardari is the worst possible choice for Pakistan
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Cuba and Florida prepare for Hurricane Ike

Over 777,000 islanders evacuated to higher ground after storm worsens floods in Haiti
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Tommy Lee Jones sues studio

Actor files $10m lawsuit against Paramount Pictures for promised bonuses
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Precision, what precision?

Comment is free America: Richard Norton-Taylor: US and Nato risk losing the battle for hearts and minds in Afghanistan
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US ad body opposes Google-Yahoo deal

Science & technology: Ad trade association has sent a letter to anti-trust regulators, opposing the search advertising deal
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Majestic Murray sweeps Nadal aside

Sports: US Open: Andy Murry summons strength to beat Rafael Nadal and reach first Grand Slam final
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McCain takes the lead in polls

Campaign Diary: Mavericks are go!; Palin’s first interview; Obama’s “Muslim” gaffe
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Obama sings Rick Astley live at Republican convention

Campaign Diary: Single slab of colour during McCain’s speech asking for trouble
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Noel Gallagher assaulted onstage in Toronto

Culture: Footage shows stage invader running across the stage before pushing the Oasis star to the ground
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In the (30-mile) zone

Travel, life and style: Netbytes: Tracking celebrity indiscretions has moved the web a long way from its origins at Cern
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Sales of Spore video game in the US predicted to soar

Success of the game is surprising, considering it is based on evolutionary theory
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US plane bombs Taliban commander’s house in Pakistan

Women, children and militants among those killed as aerial drone fires missiles into home
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La Vie Boheme

Business & economics: Minna Ninova: The failures of US housing policy are salient as ever as Rent closes on Broadway
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Will the world end on Wednesday?

Science & technology: European laboratory for particle physics in Geneva switches on its Large Hadron Collider
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US airstrikes ‘tripling Afghan deaths’

Civilian war deaths have tripled over the past year, with continuing onslaught fuelling a public backlash
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Oil prices rise fears after Ike

Business & economics: The price of light crude hit a high of $109.12 before settling to $107.52. By Chris Tryhorn
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Young Iraq inmates report sex abuse

Children held in appalling conditions in Baghdad’s prisons and convicted without fair trial
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Hunger in Africa blamed on western rejection of GM food

Organic farming processes adopted by Africa with ‘devastating consequences’
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Worst storm in 48 years hits Caribbean islands

Hurricane Ike closes in on Cuba after wrecking 80% of homes in Turks and Caicos
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Hurricane Ike weakens over Cuba

More than 777,000 islanders evacuated to higher ground after storm worsens floods in Haiti
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Inmates tell of sexual abuse and beatings in Iraq juvenile jails

Children held in appalling conditions in Baghdad’s prisons and convicted without fair trial
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Rules of engagement: Actor sues studio

Tommy Lee Jones files $10m lawsuit against Paramount Pictures for promised bonuses
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