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• PR Newswire

  PROACTIS Launches Executive Guide for Purchase-to-Pay

  LONDON, November 23 /PRNewswire/ -- PROACTIS today announced the launch of an Executive Guide to help finance specialists control spend on indirect goods and services. The guide discusses five fundamental questions every senior financial manager shou

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• The Guardian

  The koala wars

  It's cute and it's cuddly. And in 30 years, campaigners say, the koala will be extinct. But this emblematic animal has a curious history – and its fate is mired in politics

  When south-eastern Australia was consumed by bu

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• The Guardian

  'Mammon has been given a pasting'

  The credit crunch has changed everything, says the Archbishop of York. Now people are beginning to realise that there are more important things than choice and the free market

  This is not going to be easy. John Sentamu, th

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• The Observer

  Amazon gets set for cyber Monday as Christmas shopping online clicks

  Internet retailers are preparing for a deluge of online orders on their busiest day of the year in the lead-up to Christmas

  In a vast warehouse, the size of eight football pitches and around 15 minutes from the centre of M

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• The Observer

  Vantastic/Lobster | Theatre review

  Oval House, London

  There is something both weird and also weirdly compelling about these separate but thematically linked plays, written by Russell Barr, whose Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters was a hit for Out of Join

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• The Observer

  Lotfi Raissi case: How false link to al-Qaida kept innocent Algerian in jail

  Special report: Address book was cited in court as reason 9/11 suspect should remain in custody

  Lotfi Raissi was on a running machine at his local gym in the suburbs west of London when he looked up to see footage

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• The Observer

  Sir John Dankworth & Dame Cleo Laine/London Jazz festival | Jazz review

  Various venues

  Sonny Rollins won a standing ovation for the storm of sound he unleashed on the London Jazz festival a week ago. In the event's last days, Sir John Dankworth played just one tender tune on the alto sa

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• The Observer

  The Tsarina's Slippers | Opera review

  Royal Opera House, London

  Composers' attitudes to their own works are often curious. Tchaikovsky believed The Tsarina's Slippers (Cherevichki in Russian; more correctly "little boots" in English) was his finest oper

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