Ukraine crisis: Donetsk region asks to join Russia

Donetsk separatist leader, Denis Pushilin, said Moscow would be asked to consider absorbing the region. Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP The "People's Republic of Donetsk" declared itself an independent country on Monday and, within two hours of doing so, had asked to join Russia. The separatist leader Denis Pushilin told journalists that the self-proclaimed republic would ask Moscow to consider absorbing the region, which...

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Support for Labour drops six points as Tories take lead in latest ICM poll

Labour's low ebb in the Guardian/ICM poll goes hand-in-hand with negative views of its leader, Ed Miliband. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA   Labour's support is draining away, according to a Guardian/ICM poll which records the first Conservative lead in over two years and gives Ed Miliband's party its smallest share of the vote for four years. The Tories are on 33% in the monthly state of the parties poll, up a single ...

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Victimised for being blind, but body cameras helped catch the abusers

A Metropolitan police officer wearing a body camera. Photograph: EPA for The Guardian It was supposed to be the start of a new life, but after moving to Stevenage Old Town in Hertfordshire last November, I found myself a target of haters and abusers in public. I still don't know why. It began with a group of young lads attempting to guide me in to a lamppost before laughing and running away. Not long afterwards, the situation grew worse,...

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Repair Corrupt files with HashTab 4.0

  HashTab is a file hasher that integrates into Windows and remains very light on computer resources all the time, it could repair a corrupt file.Although most similar applications come with a dedicated interface, HashTab adopted a different approach and can be accessed via the Windows Context Menu, once the user clicks on the “Properties” option.In other words, if you wish to check file integrity, it's enough to perform a simple right-click...

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Jeremy Clarkson Jeremy Clarkson 'begs forgiveness' over N-word footage

Jeremy Clarkson came under fire after apparently using the N-word in unbroadcast footage from the BBC's Top Gear. Photograph: Ben Stansall/PA   Jeremy Clarkson has begged viewers' forgiveness after he appeared to use the N-word during filming of his BBC programme Top Gear. In a video statement posted online on Thursday, he said that he had tried to obscure the word when reciting the "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" nursery...

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Oklahoma inmate Tasered by prison staff on day of botched execution

Oklahoma corrections director Robert Patton addresses the media about the execution of Clayton Lockett. Photograph: John Clanton/AP ...

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The Thing Game - 250Mb

All too often games based on popular movies end up as pale imitations and disappoint those who were expecting to recapture the essence of their favourite film. However every once and a while a game which has a cinematic tie delivers the goods. The Thing is just such a game. Being based on the John Carpenter film from the early 1980s, The Thing sees you investigating some mysterious goings on at a remote Antarctic research station. Naturally...

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