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Tony Pulis sacking was largely down to Stoke's failure to raise the bar | Louise Taylor
Tony Pulis possibly first suspected his time at Stoke City was running out last December. As Christmas approached, Peter Coates, the club's owner, appointed Mark Cartwright, a former Wrexham and Shrewsbury Town goalkeeper and football agent, to the newly created post of technical director – and two worlds collided....
guardian.co.uk (21 minutes ago)
Jessica Ennis to open her 2013 season at event in Edinburgh
Jessica Ennis, the Olympic heptathlon champion, will open her 2013 season by competing in the UK Women's Athletic League Premier Division meet next month at Edinburgh's Meadowbank Sports Centre. The appearance will mark her first outdoor competition since her victory at the London 2012 Games and she is expected to...
guardian.co.uk (21 minutes ago)
In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City
The Stoke City players had their end-of-season bash a week early on the penultimate Sunday of the season, and rather than Stoke-on-Trent it was 55 miles north up the M6 at a restaurant in the upmarket new Spinningfields district of Manchester city centre that they toasted another year in the Premier League.
independent.co.uk (28 minutes ago)
Greece is the word: Liverpool prepare £15m bid for Kyriakos Papadopoulos of Schalke to replace...
The 21-year-old Greek international centre-back has also been checked out by Chelsea, Manchester City and Real Madrid
mirror.co.uk (28 minutes ago)
Case for the defence: Aston Villa boss is searching for signings to strengthen his rear guard
Paul Lambert is in the market for two new full-backs, an experienced centre-half and a creative midfielder
mirror.co.uk (28 minutes ago)
Villard man dies in Pope County collision
A 75-year-old man was killed in a collision west of Sauk Centre at about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
sctimes.com (1 hour ago)
Letters: Democratic deficit begins at home
Deborah Orr's analysis of the Tories' obsession with devolving powers from Brussels while at the same time resisting the release of powers from Westminster (18 May) highlights the many ways in which the Tory party's Europe obsession seems to eclipse all logic. But she was wrong about the role of the European...
guardian.co.uk (1 hour ago)
Miami face-eater victim 'recovering well' from wounds
A homeless man whose face was chewed off in a cannibal-style attack on a Miami causeway a year ago is recovering well from his life-changing wounds, but will never regain his eyesight, doctors said on Tuesday. Ronald Poppo, 66, "is very content with where he is right now," playing the guitar in his hospital room...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
As we mourn Oklahoma, let's not forget more people die weekly from gun crime | David Whelan
The awful events in Oklahoma City have captured the world's attention and concern. As I write this from the United Kingdom, 24 people have been killed and reports of 10 times that number have been injured. We see scenes of the two schools, Briarwood and Plaza Towers, as well as Moore Medical Centre, that were badly...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Christine Lagarde jets back to Paris to be questioned over Tapie payout
She is the straight-talking first woman head of the IMF who is considered by some to be a potential future French president. He is a flamboyant crooner-turned-business-tycoon, whose bewilderingly eclectic career has included chatshow host and star of a TV cop-show after serving as a government minister under...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Goran Bregović – review
Goran Bregović was a rock star in the former Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s, but he has since moved on to become a successful if controversial exponent of Balkan Gypsy music. Although he doesn't actually come from a Gypsy family, his international career has been based around reworking Gypsy styles for the mass...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Cannes 2013: Les Salauds – first look review
Claire Denis's pictures inhabit the eye of the storm: a hushed, watchful centre; raging passions round the rim. The French writer–director is the maestro of the elliptical edit, the words not said and the threat in the wings. At her best (on Beau Travail, say, or 35 Shots of Rum), Denis is one of the most...
guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)
Oklahoma tornado followed by extreme weather warnings for four states
More than 50 million people across a swathe of the Great Plains states were braced for a second round of extreme weather on Tuesday, from hail storms to tornadoes, after the devastation that was visited on an Oklahoma town on Monday. The storm prediction centre of the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma...
guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)
Bumper SSE results expected to provoke consumer outrage
Accusations that the big energy firms are profiteering at the expense of UK households will be centre stage again on Wednesday if Scottish & Southern Energy, as expected, reveals bumper profits for a second year running. Analysts are predicting the Perth-based company, which supplies 9.6m households with gas and...
guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)
Capita rises on outsourcing of 3,700 O2 call centre staff
Capita shares reached an all-time high on Tuesday after the outsourcer announced a 10-year deal to handle customer services for O2.
telegraph.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Paddy Fraser obituary
In her lifetime, my mother, Paddy Fraser, who has died aged 94, probably met almost every 20th-century poet of significance writing in English. She was born Eileen Lucy Andrew (but was known as Paddy from birth) in Leeds, and attended Thoresby high school. She then won an exhibition to read English at St Anne's...
guardian.co.uk (6 hours ago)
Jays' Ramon Ortiz faces Rays just shy of 40th birthday
Veteran right-handed pitcher Ramon Ortiz, who turns 40 on Thursday, will make his third start for the Toronto Blue Jays when they host the Tampa Rays at the Rogers Centre on Tuesday.
cbc.ca (6 hours ago)
Ennis to open campaign in Edinburgh
Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis will open her 2013 season at Edinburgh's Meadowbank Sports Centre on 8 June.
bbci.co.uk (6 hours ago)
Supreme Court asks Centre to amend Air Force Act
The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to bring an amendment in the Air Force Act so that pre-trial detention of a solider is considered as a part of jail term awarded by court-martial.
india.com (6 hours ago)
Before and after: Oklahoma tornado
A tornado ripped through Moore, Okla., on May 20, 2013, flattening many homes, two elementary schools and a medical centre.
cbc.ca (7 hours ago)
Tampa Bay Rays (23-21) at Toronto Blue Jays (18-26), 7:07 p.m. (ET)
Ramon Ortiz has been a pleasant surprise for the Toronto Blue Jays. The journeyman right-hander tries to put back-to-back wins together on Tuesday when the Jays continue a three-game set with the Tampa Bay Rays at Rogers Centre.
miamiherald.com (7 hours ago)
We must identify girls at risk from gangs | Carlene Firmin
When I met Rita she was 17 and in custody for the 13th time. Her offending had escalated from moped theft and "antisocial" behaviour with boys when she was 11, through to firearms possession. She had been self-harming for the past three years, had contracted chlamydia, was malnourished, had developed an addiction to...
guardian.co.uk (9 hours ago)
You read it here first: Booker finalists get together on the Southbank
Their faces and names may not be familiar but these are some of the best writers from across the world. Seven of the 10 finalists for the Man Booker International prize were at the Southbank Centre last night for a reading hosted by Today presenter James Naughtie.
standard.co.uk (9 hours ago)
Modi flays 'food security bill', wants Centre to bear cost
Describing the food security bill as 'unilateral' measure, deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday urged the Centre to foot the entire cost for its implementation, as many states, including Bihar, will be hard pressed to generate resources to meet their share.
indiatimes.com (10 hours ago)
Patients at risk in A&E 'perfect storm'
Accident and emergency departments are at the centre of a “perfect storm” that has left patients in danger, MPs were told today.
standard.co.uk (10 hours ago)
Homeserve set for fine
Homeserve, the emergency repairs firm at the centre of a long-running probe into alleged mis-selling, today braced itself for a £6 million fine from the City’s watchdog.
standard.co.uk (10 hours ago)
Woman who hanged herself five days after being groped was never asked about her emotional state...
Kayleigh Crawford, 25, was assessed at a counselling centre for sex attack victims in Cardiff hours after being groped by a man at a nightclub, an inquest heard.
dailymail.co.uk (10 hours ago)
Wigan celebrate FA Cup win with parade shortly after relegation – video
Wigan Athletic players triumphantly parade the FA Cup through the streets of the city centre on an open topped bus, less than a week after they became the first winners in history to get relegated in the same season
guardian.co.uk (11 hours ago)
Arsene Wenger still keen on Stevan Jovetic but not at £30m asking price
Arsenal are considering alternative centre-forward options, including Real Madrid’s Gonzalo Higuain, as Fiorentina continue to hold firm over their £30million valuation of Stevan Jovetic.
standard.co.uk (11 hours ago)
Young vs Young... a new twist in the capital’s most bitter divorce battle
Michelle Young first heard of Stephen Jones when she was getting dressed in the bedroom of her £6 million house in Miami. The mother-of-two, who is at the centre of Britain’s most high-profile divorce battle, told the High Court that in March 2006 she received a sudden phone call from the then-unknown lawyer that...
standard.co.uk (11 hours ago)
