Panda caught eating meat
A wild panda is caught on surveillance camera eating a dead gnu in south-west China. An analyst says the bamboo-loving animals were predators millions of years ago
December 2011
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Overlooked at the Oscars: 109 movies not nominated for best picture
Charles Saatchi’s list includes:
North by Northwest
The African Queen
Paths of Glory
Spartacus
Hud
But what films do you think missed out on a deserved Academy Award?
2012: What will make the news? →
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But what will 2012 bring? Tell us your news predictions for the new year. Here are some things you might answer:
• What will happen to the Eurozone? Will any member countries leave the Euro?
• Who will win the Republican primaries in the US?
• Will Usain Bolt take victory at the London Olympics? Who will take the honours at the Games?
• Will we see a shift in party leaders in the UK political scene?
• What films will be blockbuster successes next year and which will see Oscars glory?
Links round up: The best of 2011
More and more lists of ‘the best’ of 2011 (and the worst!) are appearing in the build up to the New Year this weekend. As well as a crop of Guardian articles looking back at the year that has been, we round up some of the other good top ten lists we’ve seen on Tumblr:
- Life publishes its favourtie photos of 2011
- apsies publishes 11 quotes from 2011
- Expressafterdeadline has this stunning year in photos from 2011
- newsweek takes a look at some of its favourite covers of 2011
- dazeddigital has some of the best of art and culture from 2011
- Top gaffes of 2011 - including Sarkozy and Obama on the Israeli PM
- Music has the best music videos of 2011 here
- Charlie Brooker on the top buzzwords of 2011 - including ‘Merkozy’ and ‘planking’
- Your books of the year 2011
- Top 10 business stories of 2011
- On the Crossword blog, 10 things Alan Connor learned in 2011
- Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell’s top political cartoons of the year
- Take the activist quiz - can you match the placard to the protest?
- Guardian Tech reviews 2011
- Instagram has a year in review in Instagram photos
- Guardian fashion team review the looks and moments of the year in this video
- Here’s storify of the tweets which made the news in 2011
- Finally check out our news review of the year interactive here
Feel free to add your own 2011 review post link by reblogging this post. We look forward to reading some more before the year is out!
“I’d have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families.”
—Gaffes of the year 2011. Jeremy Clarkson on the November 30 public sector strikes. See the rest here.
Cocktail inspiration
New Year’s Eve approaches. Let Guardian Food tell you how to rustle up great cocktails without breaking the bank
How Twitter made the news in 2011 →
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A Storify round-up of the tweets and tweeters at the heart of some of the biggest news stories of the year
“The water’s all whale sperm. That’s why the ocean’s salty.”
—American reality-TV star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi on her hatred of the beach and other celebrity science in 2011
The best albums and songs of 2011, as voted by readers →
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Find out what our readers selected as the best music of 2011. You won’t believe what’s at number one…
