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Sakineh Ashtiani could be hanged in Iran
Judiciary officials exploring whether woman whose sentence to death by stoning was suspended can be hanged insteadAn Iranian woman whose sentence of death by stoning for adultery provoked an...
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Can Triumph power British manufacturing abroad?
Sales of Triumph motorcycles are rising but the manufacturer needs to do more to conquer China and grow exportsBritish manufacturing's struggles with the cool factor seem immaterial when Steve McQueen...
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The fallout from the Fukushima disaster
The explosion at a nuclear plant in Japan in March caused concern around the world. Germany shut down its reactors, but the energy debate heated up in BritainAt 3.41pm on 11 March 2011, just as the...
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Vladimir Putin's world is falling apart | Masha Gessen
The Russian media has lost its fear of Putin's authoritarian regime. History tells us the end must be nighWatching an authoritarian regime disintegrate is like watching an episode of the American...
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Ship held after missiles discovery cleared to travel again
MS Thor Liberty had docked in Finnish port of Kotka when police found and seized missiles and explosivesA British-registered ship that was held in a Finnish port after authorities discovered 69...
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Life after the Arab spring
Egypt's progress from dictatorship to democracy is messy but offers hope to the Arab worldThis time last year, I was in Khartoum, scouring Arabic TV channels trying to find any reports of events in...
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Doe Avedon obituary
Model and movie star whose life story was the inspiration behind the film Funny FaceIn 1944, the 21-year-old Richard Avedon, just starting out as a professional photographer after leaving the US...
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The euro crisis deepens
Every week brought more dire forecasts in the battle to save Europe's economic club. But 2012 will be its worst year yetEurope's leaders have spent most of the euro crisis denying there's a euro...
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Top lieutenant of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel captured
Police say arrest of Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, aka 'The Engineer', is huge blow to Sinaloa cartel – though leader remains elusiveMexican authorities said Monday they had dealt a blow to the country's...
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Spain faces more pain before economy recovers, warns minister
Luis de Guindos, economy minister expects the economy to shrink in the final three months of 2011 and again in the first quarter of the new yearSpain's new economy minister warned on Monday that the...
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Mumbai develops a taste for fight clubs
With money, opportunity and violence galore, full contact fighting is finding many fans in India's commercial capitalDhiraj Wahelendar was waiting to fight. Within an hour he would step into a...
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French war museum in vanguard of push for more foreign tourists
Newly opened museum already exceeding expected visitor numbers as France sees opportunities in boom in war tourismFrom US soldiers introducing chewing gum to France in 1917 to a toothbrush from a...
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Romans revolt over billboard jungle
Advertising firms planting thousands of billboards across Rome, just as city loses some of its most majestic treesFor centuries Rome has been treasured as one of the world's most beautiful cities, a...
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Sony sells its half stake in TV joint venture to Samsung
• Samsung pays $940m for control of LCD venture• Analysts predict fade out in $100bn flat screen market Sony has sold its nearly 50% stake in joint venture with Samsung Electronics to the South Korean...
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How to avoid a repeat of the UK riots
For the big society to work, big business needs to share its power with a lost generation it has cast asideEach footstep along the High Road I had been walking down since I was a child was met by the...
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Why the City of London is European | Jo Johnson
David Cameron must persuade the French and other EU members that London's financial centre is their asset tooNext month's Franco-British collôque will provide much-needed group therapy for a...
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Somali hip-hop band fighting al-Shabaab for hearts and minds
Waayaha Cusub remain defiant despite bearing the scars of the Islamist group, whose reach has extended to NairobiShine Ali doesn't scare easily. If he did, he would not be with his band in a basement...
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Assad crackdown intensifies as Arab League monitors arrive in Syria
Activists say government forces have killed several hundred civilians since agreeing to the Arab plan to stop bloodshedThe Arab League sent monitors to Syria on Monday even though President Bashar...
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Briton jailed for drug offences in Philippines pardoned from life sentence
Campaigners welcome decision to release William Burton, caught smuggling cannabis in 1992, on health groundsCampaigners have welcomed the news that a Briton jailed for drug offences in the Philippines...
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Hugo Chávez pardons 141 prisoners for Christmas – but leaves judge in jail
Venezuelan president ignores calls from political campaigners to release former judge, arrested after bailing bankerHugo Chávez has announced Christmas pardons for 141 prisoners, but ignored fresh...
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