Street dance is the reason to see Rumble, an updated Romeo and Juliet by the German company Renegade Theatre. In one solo, Marcel “Speedy” Gebhard flips into a handstand, then moves from hand to hand – not just shifting his weight, but springing easily, turning in a circle with the lightness of a waltz step. [...]

For instance, manufacturing still accounts for some 15 per cent of the UK economy, but it proved virtually impossible to find any large, quoted examples of pure UK manufacturing. Ownership of UK manufacturing, it seems lies mainly overseas, or in the hands of international conglomerates and private equity.Yet with an index of 100 constituents, we [...]

The village, surrounded by dense forest but only 50 kilometres from a major iron-ore mine, already has three steel plants in its midst. Tata, a major Indian company, wants to build another, much bigger than the rest. The villagers, who belong to the indigenous Ho tribe, want none of it: last year police broke up [...]

And today they are stronger, more numerous and more ambitious than ever. “Because without our land we will die anyway.”She wore a green salwar kameez (traditional dress) and a red headband – the uniform of the Maoist guerrillas, who are now a big factor in the struggle over how India should develop.Called “Naxalites” after the [...]

so I sent one of the Germans to go and fetch the mayor of the town. Two detectives had begun interviewing members of Maxwell’s platoon about the killing.If found guilty Maxwell, a former captain in the British Army, would have been the first Briton to be prosecuted for war crimes in this country.The War Crimes [...]

“He was a politician with a glittering career who made a serious mistake,” said Mr Blair, “but then underwent a journey or redemption in which he gave support and help to many, many people.”. But Mohammad Sidique Khan’s extraordinary and rapid transition from law-abiding citizen to terrorist is revealed in documents showing he used to [...]

Coincidentally, he was laid low by malaria, legacy of a visit to Bamako, and it was through the fever that he revisited the experiences he and his friends had shared a quarter-century earlier, as well as exploring the present predicament of sans-papiers African immigrants. He experienced a couple of disturbing encounters with the authorities that [...]

Brilliantly, she also shows how defeat brings into the open all the toxic hatreds between classes, families and generations that have festered in this “affluent but primitive” backwater of la France profonde. In the wings, the peasantry murmur and plot the early stages of Resistance: we know from her notes that the French fightback would [...]

Both Robert Pires and Thierry Henry unearthed some moments to put among their best, but increasingly the eye was drawn to the precocious teenager Fabregas.The huge question at the start of the season was whether Fabregas would meet or be consumed by the challenge of replacing the great Vieira. When he took his goal in [...]

Those wishing to amend the database, to add or subtract properties, will have to pay an amendment fee.The scheme’s start date has already been put back from 31 March because the registration website and database isn’t ready. So a landlord with two properties in two different council areas will pay £90.75 (£55 + £13.75 + [...]