Recently added articles from The Independent (London, England):
Around the world The best of the rest COMO STYLE
Jul 01, 2009 ... Aqua Resort, Port el Kantaoui, Tunisia Price: from 24,500 They say: New, luxury apartments overlooking the beach near Portel Kantaoui. We say: Tunisia is gaining in popularity and this largedevelopment offers affordable holiday boltholes ranging from studiosto ...
Going, going, gone!
Jul 01, 2009; ... As the recession grinds on, property owners everywhere arefeeling the pinch, especially those who invested in areas where themarket has all but dried up, such as America and Spain. Increasingly, such properties are being found at auction asowners try to offload homes they can no ...
'You don't have to spin to sell'
Jul 01, 2009; ... Estate agent Jules Bending doesn't do property jargon, and prideshimself on his honesty. No wonder the industry is up in arms. ClareDywer Hogg meets a salesman the buyers trust Jules Bending doesn't like to conform to stereotypes. Leavebehind your assumptions, then, when he is ...
How to create bathroom bliss
Jul 01, 2009; ... Make the most of small spaces with brilliant basins, trendy tapsand chic cupboards, says Kate Watson-Smyth Bathing has been fashionable since the third century and yet, forsome reason, most modern bathrooms are squeezed into the tiniest ofspots available, often without even a ...
House Doctor
Jul 01, 2009; ... 'Why have we been gazumped now?' Question: There may well be a housing slump but, incredibly,we've been gazumped twice in the past month on homes we're lookingat; each time, by a considerable sum. Is there anything we can do?CW, Cheshire Answer: Can it really be back ...
Private viewing
Jul 01, 2009; ... MOORED MANSION Dunburgh House, Dunburgh, Beccles, Suffolk Price: 895,000 Agent: Savills Tel: 01603 229206 They say: Beautifully proportioned six-bedroom Georgian house inmature gardens with a separate mooring plot and pool. Recent worksinclude a new ...
GEORGE CLARE
Jul 01, 2009; ... Memoirist who recalled life in Nazi Vienna and postwar Berlin It was an age of durability which was equated with stability ...but nothing is so impermanent as permanence, nothing is so insecureas security." So wrote the memoirist George Clare of Franz-Josef'sAustria in Last Waltz ...
DOCTOR CECIL HELMAN
Jul 01, 2009; ... Medical anthropologist, GP and writer who found fame with hisbook 'Suburban Shaman' In the summer of 1973, I made a pilgrimage to the Jerusalem homeof the great Israeli poet, Yehuda Amichai. Later that same yearCecil Helman. It is possible that Amichai liked neither of us ...
BORIS POKROVSKY
Jul 01, 2009; ... Opera director whose career at the Bolshoi crossed five decades Boris Pokrovsky dominated Soviet opera for over 50 years and hisproductions - lavish, traditional, even sometimes staid - definedthe Bolshoi style. But his chamber opera company often moved in avery different ...
Briefly
Jul 01, 2009 ... Edith 'Jackie' Ronne Edith Ronne, who died on 14 June aged 89, became one of the firsttwo American women to overwinter in Antarctica, in 1947 when sheaccompanied her husband, the explorer Finn Ronne. Known as Jackie, Edith Ronne was born in Baltimore in 1919. Shemarried Finn ...
King of comic relief
Jul 01, 2009; ... The Serpentine's summer blockbuster is an exhibition of kitschmasterpieces from the American artist Jeff Koons. Michael Gloverdoesn't know whether to laugh or cry What a mind-numbing spectacle have we here! This summer, theSerpentine Gallery, those staid former tea rooms in ...
Rival fossil challenges 'missing link'
Jul 01, 2009; ... Ganlea has more claim to be common primate ancestor than Ida, sayscientists She had a website devoted to her, a film made about her, a bookwritten on her, and even a Google-page dedication of her own. ButIda the fossil primate who was supposed to be the missing linkbetween man ...
Sarkozy urges Israel to sack Foreign Minister
Jul 01, 2009 ... World in brief JERUSALEM The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has advised theIsraeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to fire his ForeignMinister Avigdor Lieberman, right, according to two senior Israeligovernment officials. M. Sarkozy said "you must get rid of that ...
Sarah Jessica Parker introduces her twins
Jul 01, 2009 ... World in brief Sarah Jessica Parker has released the first picture of her twindaughters who were born to a surrogate mother last Monday. The Sexand the City ...
China delays internet filter
Jul 01, 2009 ... World in brief beijing China has postponed a plan to require computer makers tosupply internet-filtering software, hours before it was due to takeeffect, after protests by Washington and web users ....
Seven students hurt in drive-by shooting
Jul 01, 2009 ... World in brief detroit Seven teenagers were wounded, three of them critically,when gunmen opened fire on a group waiting at a bus stop in Detroitin the United States. Five of the injured had just left a schoolwhen a minivan drew up and two gunmen got out and started shooting.The ...
A pleasantly meandering brook review
Jul 01, 2009; ... The Wednesday Book In Caught by the River, writers, musicians, environmentalists,anglers and poets contribute to a tranquil collection of accounts oftime spent with a favourite river. "Rivers run through men," beginsJohn Berry's "The River Alness", "as surely as they run through ...
A flat tyre can't puncture the fun
Jul 01, 2009; ... DANCE BICYCLE BALLET Paternoster Square, London *** Live performance is easily affected by injury or illness, butthis was the first time I'd seen a show delayed by a puncture.Bicycle Ballet is a dance for cyclists, which does make itvulnerable to flat tyres. Some brisk repair work ...
CLASSICAL
Jul 01, 2009; ... DIDONATO/ CALLEJA/ HAMPSON/ VASSILEV/ PAPPANO Royal Opera House,London **** Only the Royal Opera House could lose one star (the indisposedDmitri Hvorostovsky) and find three others; well, five actuallysince Antonio Pappano, the evening's inspired accompanist, broughtwith him ...
POP
Jul 01, 2009; ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND Hyde Park, London **** With the sun slowly dropping out of the sky over Hyde Park and infront of tens of thousands of expectant fans, the pressure was onfor Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. Hot on the heels oftheir celebrated headliner ...