Will Mark Cavendish be celebrating this afternoon? Photograph: Pete Goding/Action Images 2:26pm:A grimace! Contador starts to put some serious yards in, perhaps attempting an entirely unneccessary but entertaining breakaway … oh no, he was just taking the piss. He soon relents and swaps... 

Harry Potter author and classics graduate, JK Rowling. Photograph: Str/EPA As experts warn the ongoing cuts in the public sector could result in record levels of graduate unemployment; despondent graduate jobseekers may find comfort in the words of Friedrich Nietzsche: “That which does... 

A scene from Avatar, the biggest grossing movie of all time. Photograph: 20th Century Fox One was the year of A Clockwork Orange and decimalisation. The other was that of Avatar and the shattered economy. But while 1971 and 2009 were wildly different in terms of the technological limits of... 

A blogging website that was shut down suddenly last week for containing links to hit lists, bomb-making documents and Al Qaeda’s new magazine “Inspire” had a lengthy history of breaking the law, but its violations were limited to copyright issues, not terrorism. Upon learning from the... 

Komisi Kepolisian Nasional (Kompolnas) telah mengantongi nama-nama calon kapolri baru. Nama calon kapolri itu akan diumumkan 1 hingga 2 bulan sebelum Kapolri Jenderal Bambang Hendarso Danuri berhenti. “Satu dua bulan sebelumnya, pokoknya sebelum kapolri diberhentikan. Kita kan belum tahu kapan,” kata...