Bruce Springsteen albums – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email This week sees the release of the Boss's 18th album, High Hopes. Here's a look back at all his previous efforts, with reviews from the time of release by Rolling Stone, the Guardian and the Observer Sat 11 Jan 2014 14.09 GMT First published on Sat 11 Jan 2014 14.
Pakistan cricket team This article is more than 13 years oldLeaked video reveals Pakistan management's fears of match-fixingThis article is more than 13 years old Management incredulous over wicketkeeper's mistakes
Players and officials questioned by parliamentary committeeA video has been leaked showing the management of the Pakistan cricket team raising suspicions about match-fixing within the side. The leak has resulted in officials, coaches and players being summoned to appear in front of a parliamentary committee.
UK newsLettersNoble ratsThe Animal Aid website says some 3 million animals are used every year for research, but 900 million animals are farmed and killed for food each year. That's 300 pigs, chickens and cows, often reared in appalling conditions, for every rat or mouse (90% of research animals are small rodents, not cats, dogs or monkeys). If we want a serious debate about the moral justification for breeding and killing animals for human use, surely this is where we should start.
The moonIt all started with a man called Bill Kaysing and his pamphlet about ‘America’s $30bn swindle’ ...
It took 400,000 Nasa employees and contractors to put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969 – but only one man to spread the idea that it was all a hoax. His name was Bill Kaysing.
It began as “a hunch, an intuition”, before turning into “a true conviction” – that the US lacked the technical prowess to make it to the moon (or, at least, to the moon and back).
Pass notesTom HanksThe actor is working on a movie that will utilise deepfake technology to de-age its stars – but that’s barely the beginning of his ambitions
Name: Tom Hanks.
Age: 66.
Appearance: Forever on our screens.
Yes, we’ll always have Splash. Not to mention all the other films.
Of course: Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Turner & Hooch. And don’t forget about all the films still to come.
God willing, there will be plenty more.
Ted Cruz interviewed by the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs GuardianTed CruzWhile drawing crowds with his conservative charisma during his Iowa tour, the Texas senator shared the recipe for his ‘commonsense’ campaign: a heavy dose of Reagan’s vision and a dash of Obama’s ‘masterful’ election tactics
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Ted Cruz idolizes Ronald Reagan. The Republican presidential hopeful has read dozens of biographies of the 40th president and invokes his name at every campaign stop.
QAnonInterview‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theoristsZoe WilliamsOn a march, Peter McIndoe held up a sign and talked about how the ‘deep state’ had replaced all birds with drones. It was meant as a small act of satire but has become a mass movement
In early 2017, Peter McIndoe, now 23, was studying psychology at the University of Arkansas, and visiting friends in Memphis, Tennessee.
MusicObituaryUrsula Vaughan WilliamsMusic patron, wife and biographer of Ralph Vaughan Williams.Although Ursula Vaughan Williams, who has died aged 96, had a long association with the musical world and understood it well, she was not a musician but a writer. She was the author of what was, for many years, the standard biography of her husband, Ralph Vaughan Williams, who died in 1958, and of poetry that appealed particularly to composers. Some set verses she had already published; with others she worked closely, providing librettos for several operas and large-scale choral works.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic This article is more than 5 years old'Dear Los Angeles, you're welcome': Zlatan Ibrahimovic joins the GalaxyThis article is more than 5 years oldIbrahimovic’s contract at United was cancelledStriker has played only seven times this seasonZlatan Ibrahimovic has signed for LA Galaxy a day after leaving Manchester United. The 36-year-old striker’s Old Trafford contract was cancelled on Thursday and the Major League Soccer club have, as expected, confirmed his arrival.
TennesseeRepublican lawmakers in the US are leaning into outdated definitions of obscenity to outlaw drag and ban books too
For five months this year, homosexuality was prohibited in a Tennessee college town.
In June, the city council of Murfreesboro enacted an ordinance outlawing “indecent exposure, public indecency, lewd behavior, nudity or sexual conduct”. The rule did not explicitly mention homosexuality, but LGBTQ+ people in the town quickly realized that the ordinance references 21-72 of the city code, which categorizes homosexuality as an act of indecent sexual conduct.