Da Silva doubtful for Bayern Munich visit
Fans rally behind David Moyes during victory over Villa
Australian proponents of the 'right to be a bigot' are keen to ignore the historical contexts which gave birth to hate speech something which minority groups should never forget
As far as the 2008 Climate Change Act goes, it is far easier to will the ends than it is to accept the means
The members of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are purveyors of doom. Their report, looking at the impact on the global way of life of increases in average temperatures of 2C or more over the pre-industrial average, is no easy read. But after the past few months of weather floods in the UK, drought in California and extreme blizzards in New York its message will only be disregarded by the most sceptical of sceptics (stand up Tony Abbott, prime minister of Australia). Climate change, the panel warns, will bring at the very least many more extreme weather events. It will probably threaten food security and it will certainly influence what can be grown where. It is a careful, nuanced attempt to wake people up to the news that quite soon they won't be able to smell the coffee because it will have become a rare and costly luxury.
In our interview this weekend, Ed Davey, the energy and climate change secretary, insisted that the coalition's climate activists had won the day. Whatever David Cameron was reported as saying about green crap, regardless of chancellor George Osborne's reluctance for Britain to stick its neck out, the 2008 Climate Change Act's ambitious targets were on course. It is, however, very much easier to will the ends than it is to accept the means. That political truism was illustrated recently in an innovative series of day-long sessions run by the DECC which challenged a self-selected audience to consider emissions-cutting options available in their own city. The results confirmed that, even though it was the most effective answer, there was a definite aversion to risking economic growth. Even allowing for some forceful criticisms of the options available (not enough nuclear, for example) in the design of the model it is open for anyone to try online it was unmistakable evidence of the political challenge ahead.
Twenty years ago on Saturday, Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain killed himself, aged 27. His music remains as popular as ever, and the band are due to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 April. But how much do you know about Cobain and Nirvana? Find out with our plaid-shirted quiz...
Two Spanish journalists, freelance photographer Ricardo García Vilanova and El Mundo correspondent Javier Espinosa, have been freed after being held for more than six months in Syria by a rogue al-Qaida group. The pair were reunited with friends and family on their arrival in Madrid on Sunday
More than 670,000 households in UK face increase in council tax from Tuesday, a survey of local authorities reveals
More than 670,000 of the poorest households in England will face an increase in council tax of £120 a year on average from Tuesday as the government withdraws a benefits safety net, a survey of local authorities has revealed.
Using freedom of information requests, a joint investigation by the Guardian and the campaigning organisation False Economy found that from April, 83 local authorities are reducing protection for vulnerable residents.
Russian foreign minister and US secretary of state enter talks again as 40,000 Russian troops mass on Ukraine border
Russia set out a series of tough conditions on Sunday night for agreeing a diplomatic solution to the crisis over its annexation of Crimea, demanding that the US and its European partners accept its proposal that ethnic Russian regions of eastern and southern Ukraine be given extensive autonomous powers independent of Kiev.
Emergency talks between Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, and John Kerry, the US secretary of state, got under way at the Russian ambassador's residence in Paris after a day in which tensions over Ukraine deepened appreciably. Neither man made any substantive comment before the talks began. Suggesting it might be a long session, Lavrov told reporters: "Good luck and good night."
Ricardo García Vilanova and Javier Espinosa greeted with hugs and kisses from family members on arrival at Madrid airport
It was late afternoon yesterday when the families of Ricardo García Vilanova and Javier Espinosa got the reunion they had waited 194 days for. As the pair, tired and visibly skinnier, stepped off the plane at the Torrejón air base in Madrid, they were greeted with hugs and kisses from family members.
It was Espinosa, the award-winning El Mundo journalist based in the Middle East since 2002, who broke the news that the ordeal was over. Just after 9pm on Saturday night, he called the newsroom after their captors had delivered them to Turkish authorities. "Hi, it's Javier Espinosa," he calmly told the receptionist. "Write down this number and call me back. We're good, both of us, Ricardo and I. Tell [my wife] Monica and our parents." The Spanish government sprang into action, sending a Falcon 900 to retrieve the two men. Government officials and a handful of El Mundo staff joined the families in greeting the pair on the tarmac. Later Espinosa and García Vilanova made their way to the El Mundo newsroom.
Errol Damelin will reportedly step down in the coming months, but will retain a valuable share in the company he founded
The multi-millionaire figurehead of the controversial payday lending industry is to stand down from his job as chairman of Wonga as a new City regulator prepares to impose tougher rules.
Early polls put Islamist Justice and Development party ahead with 44%-46% of vote, with main opposition on 23%-28%
Turkey's embattled prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, appeared to fight off serial allegations of sleaze on Sunday night when his governing Justice and Development party (AKP) gained a substantial victory in nationwide local elections seen as a barometer of the prime minister's popularity.
Inconclusive projections and partial ballot returns showed the AKP likely to hold Istanbul and reach its declared goal of more than 40% of overall votes.
Liverpool's speed on the break catches out Spurs' defence
Tim Sherwood's positive impact is beginning to wane
Tory MP for Fylde quit as parliamentary private secretary to Alan Duncan following Sunday Mirror investigation into his private life
Home Office confirms death of 40-year-old woman at immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire
A 40-year-old woman died on Sunday in Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire, the Home Office has confirmed. Police are investigating the woman's death and the prisons and probation ombudsman has been informed.
There are unconfirmed reports that the woman was heard shouting for help shortly before she died. She was understood to be from Jamaica. A spokesman for the East of England ambulance service said: "We were called to Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre at 8.17am after receiving reports that a woman was in cardiac arrest. We attended along with the air ambulance service. She was sadly pronounced dead at the scene."
Would-be swindlers were carrying a case of forged bearer bonds as they tried to enter the Vatican gates 'to meet cardinals'
The papal gendarmerie and Italian police have foiled a massive potential fraud at the Vatican bank after two men stopped at the gates to the Vatican were found to be carrying a case containing large amounts of forged bearer bonds, Italian police say.
Lt Col Davide Cardia of the financial police said the would-be swindlers, who were wearing business suits, tried to convince Swiss Guards at a Vatican City gate this month that cardinals were expecting them.
Sri Lanka 85-9; England 86-3. England win by seven wickets
Sarah Taylor and Anya Shrubsole superb for England
Sarah Taylor and Anya Shrubsole fired England into the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 with a comfortable win against Sri Lanka in Sylhet.
Shrubsole continued her outstanding tournament by taking three for nine as Sri Lanka struggled to 85 for nine in their 20 overs after choosing to bat first, with Taylor claiming four dismissals two catches and two stumpings.
Warm temperatures, which reached more than 20C in parts of Britain, are expected to remain for much of the week
Parts of Britain basked in weather warmer than mainland Spain and Ibiza as temperatures reached over 20Con Sunday. London was the hottest part of the country, with temperatures reaching a maximum of 20.4C (68.7F) at St James's Park at 1pm, according to the Met Office.
This made the capital hotter than Madrid (17C), the Balearic Islands (18C) and the French Riviera (16C-17C), weather forecaster MeteoGroup said.
Protesters say deal was rushed through and could leave Taiwan beholden to China's Communist party leaders
More than 100,000 protesters took to the streets of Taiwan's capital on Sunday as a two-week-long campaign against a trade pact with China gathered steam, piling further pressure on the island's leader.
The rally in Taipei where many were dressed in black and some clutched sunflowers to symbolise hope was one of the largest in recent years in Taiwan, an island that split from China over six decades ago after a civil war.
Big hitters stress Israel backing to Republican Jewish Coalition
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson donated more than $90m in 2012
Two of the highest-profile Republican state governors on Saturday called for more aggressive leadership on America's challenges abroad, emphasising their support for Israel as they courted powerful Jewish donors.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker also stoked speculation about their own presidential ambitions as they discussed how to reclaim the White House in 2016.
Franciscan monks try to raise £75,000 on Kickstarter to fix room in Rome church where saint is said to have stayed
Crowdfunding and medieval history have come together in Rome, with a group of Franciscan monks using the internet to raise funds to restore a dusty cell apparently used by St Francis of Assisi.
Located in the Trastevere district, the church of San Francesco a Ripa looks much like any of the other 900 churches in the Eternal City and is better known for a statue by Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini. But the monks in charge say its real treasure, tucked away on the first floor, is a cell that hosted St Francis. "We need $125,000 (£75,000) to restore the cell of St Francis," said Brother Stefano Tamburo, who is in charge of the church-monastery.
Former Russian oil tycoon and staunch Kremlin critic jailed for a decade given one-year permit with possibility of renewal
The former Russian oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was freed late last year after a decade in prison, has been granted a one-year residence permit in Switzerland, migration authorities said on Sunday.
"His application was approved," Martin Reichlin, a spokesman for the country's federal migration office, said.
UK researchers say discovery suggests dietary advice should focus on genetic predisposition to digest different foods
British researchers have discovered a link between a gene that breaks down carbohydrates and obesity, which may pave the way for more effective, individually tailored diets for people wanting to lose weight.
Researchers at King's College London and Imperial College London found that people with fewer copies of a gene responsible for carbohydrate breakdown may be at higher risk of obesity. The findings, published in Nature Genetics, suggest that dietary advice may need to focus more on a person's digestive system, based on whether they have the genetic predisposition and necessary enzymes to digest different foods.
Landslide win for millionaire-turned-philanthropist deals blow to prime minister, Robert Fico, before 2016 general election
A non-aligned centrist, Andrej Kiska, swooped in to clinch Slovakia's presidency by a landslide, dealing a heavy blow to the credibility of the prime minister, Robert Fico, before a general election in 2016.
Kiska, 51, who made his fortune in the consumer-credit business before giving most of it away, will be Slovakia's first president since independence in 1993 without a past in the Communist party. He has vowed to re-establish the people's trust in the office of president" and make politics "more human". Kiska scored 59.4% of the vote against 20.6% for Fico on a turnout of 50.48%, the election commission said.
From 1980s images of a Chinese woman with her TV to endless shots of a black dog on a black sofa, Dutch publisher Erik Kessels' collections of 'found photographs' are beautiful, surreal and unsettling.
In pictures: the world's weirdest photo albums
By any standards, Me TV is an odd photo book. It comprises eight found snapshots of a middle-aged Chinese woman standing in front of her new television set. In each, her pose is identical, right down to way the little finger of her left hand rests on the TV cabinet. Save for the fact that she is wearing a different top in each photograph, they could be the same image reproduced eight times. But, where others might see only the mundane, Erik Kessels, publisher of Me TV, sees something much more profound.
"From the very many images I have seen that document TVs in China in the 1980s, these are the among the best," he says. "They tell the story about how big a deal it was to have a new television in China in the 1980s. You can see how proud she is. Plus, the repeated pose is a little bit surreal. The series is both documentary and conceptual, without meaning to be either. This is the beauty of found photography."
Retailers are increasingly targeting twentysomething men willing to splash out on luxury brands
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Age: Young.
A TV ad campaign by a package-holiday company in Denmark aims to persuade Danes to have sex on holiday in a bid to boost the country's low birthrate
Hotel rooms are one of life's great aphrodisiacs at least that's the theory behind a new campaign from Danish package-holiday specialist Spies Rejser. Its latest TV campaign, Do It For Denmark, aims to encourage Danes to go on holiday in the hope that they might procreate while abroad.
"Can sex save Denmark?", the advert asks. The Danes may be the happiest people in the world, but it would seem that their boundless joy is not resulting in little bundles of joy. They are among the most gender-equal people on earth with one of the highest proportions of women in work which is, I think we can agree, all good. However, the country's birth rate is at a 27-year low of 10 per 1,000 people (compared with the UK's positively fecund 13).