How to make the perfect arancini

Are these fried rice balls the best use for leftover risotto, do you make them from scratch in the traditional Sicilian style, and what do you stuff them with? Felicity Cloake’s perfect arancini. Photographs: Felicity Cloake for the Guardian Arancini, named after the little oranges that these fried rice balls are said to resemble, are best known […]

People are going crazy for the game ‘Let it Goat’

Combining goats and Disney’s Frozen was only ever going to end well. Source: Supplied ANGRY Birds, Temple Run and Flappy Bird are all old news. Welcome to the world of Let it Goat. The internet loves goats, it also loves Disney songs, so it makes sense that the latest stupidly addictive game on the iOS App Store combines them both. The game is called Let […]

Emmy nominations 2014: some surprises, just not the right ones

Lizzy Caplan, left, as Virginia Johnson and Caitlin Fitzgerald as Libby Masters in “Masters of Sex,” Photograph: Craig Blankenhorn/AP The morning of Emmy nominations is a strange ritual, sort of like Bill Murray waking up in Groundhog Day. Everything is sort of exactly the same but also slightly different enough that it feels a little bit like […]

LeBron keeps fans, NBA waiting

LeBron James keeps everyone hanging as the NBA and the rest of the world waits for The Decision 2.0 The man the whole NBA is waiting for — LeBron James. Source: AP WHILE two cities and an entire league waited for LeBron James to settle on The Decision 2.0, the man at the centre of the storm […]

Humans are too puny for email, bring on the spambots

Email isn’t broken. Our inability to handle all the data we generate and exchange marks us out as the weakest link ‘The modern phenomenon of boasting on Twitter about how many unread emails are in your inbox is just a way of saying, ‘OMG, look how important and in-­demand I am!’.’ Photograph: Roger Tooth for […]

Indonesian vote: both sides claim win

BOTH sides claimed victory Wednesday in Indonesia’s tightest and most divisive presidential election since the end of authoritarian rule, as unofficial tallies showed Jakarta governor Joko Widodo leading over ex-general Prabowo Subianto. The standoff in the hotly contested race to lead the world’s third-biggest democracy prompted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to call for restraint from […]

The house that 20,000 toothbrushes built

The house of waste built from recycled materials at the University of Brighton. Photograph: Jamie Smith Duncan Baker-Brown has seen the future of housing – and it’s rubbish. “It’s a depressing fact,” the architect says, “that for every five houses we build in the UK, the equivalent of one house in waste materials gets put into landfill.” What makes that […]

Raju ‘just the tip of the iceberg’ in cruel elephant slave trade

IT WAS the heartbreaking photo that brought people to tears around the world. Raju, the traumatised and mistreated elephant freed after being trapped in chains for 50 years, made headlines when he cried after being released and tasting freedom for the first time in his life. But Raju’s distressing tale was just the tip of the […]

10 sure signs it’s time to quit your job

IT’S A dilemma many workers face — how to know when it’s time to quit. If you’re not sure whether you should stick with the job you’re in or throw in the towel, a few signs can help you decide. To find out exactly what these signs are, and what they really mean,BusinessNewsDaily asked employees in […]