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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Phil Burston, a senior officer at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds RSPB, said: ” Drought in the South-east is severely affecting some of our finest wetland sites. It is putting intense pressure on an already stressed environment.”
“Relief can only come if we reduce the amount of water we use in our [...]

Not since the time of Confucius have there been so many Chinese whispers; not since Sven Goran Eriksson confirmed his departure at the end of the World Cup finals have so many names been dropped into so many hats as part of so many agendas. Martyn Thomas, who beat the former England manager Jack Rowell [...]