Charles Taylor war crimes trial - live coverage of the verdict
Judges at a war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands convict the former Liberian president of aiding and abetting atrocities in neighbouring Sierra Leone1.34pm: We're now ending this live coverage of the...
View ArticleThousands gather in Oslo to sing song Anders Breivik hates
About 40,000 people sing 1970s song Children of the Rainbow, which Breivik described as Marxist propagandaUp to 40,000 Norwegians have staged an emotionally charged singalong in Oslo near the court...
View ArticleA new legal high goes on sale every week, says EU drugs agency
Centre monitors new laboratory-made psychoactive substances that mimic effects of cannabis, amphetamine and ecstasyNew "legal highs" and other synthetic drugs are appearing on the market at the rate of...
View ArticleMore Palestinian prisoners join hunger strike
Human rights groups say 2,000 are on hunger strike against indefinite detention without charge and alleged ill-treatmentThe number of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails has grown...
View ArticleWhy I've made public the films of my kids growing up | Frans Hofmeester
Time-lapse videos of my children Lotte and Vince have received global attention – to me they carry an important messageI started filming my daughter Lotte as a newborn in 1999, every week, usually on a...
View ArticleGeorge Galloway denies Jemima Khan's claims of Muslim conversion ceremony
Khan's claim in New Statesman article that Galloway converted in north London 10 years ago is 'categorically untrue', he saysGeorge Galloway has denied claims made by Jemima Khan in the New Statesman...
View ArticleBoko Haram suspected as bombs kill at least six at Nigerian newspapers
Radical Islamist sect Boko Haram suspected of detonating two bombs at ThisDay newspaper offices in Abuja and KadunaA suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives on Thursday at the office of a...
View ArticleOn the inside: the demise of the BME housing sector
A former Ujima chief executive responds to Harris Beider's view that it is time for a resurgence of the black housing movementI used to say that the future of black and minority ethnic housing (BME)...
View ArticleIranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi arrested
Mohammadi, who was taken seriously ill after being detained previously, now has to serve six years in jailAn ailing human rights activist whose contribution to the campaign against juvenile executions...
View ArticleTSA pair accused of accepting bribes from drug smugglers at LA airport
Two employees arrested with two former airport screeners in what US officials said was a 'significant breakdown of system'Two airport security employees have been arrested on drug trafficking and...
View ArticleBoeing 787 Dreamliner tour - in pictures
The aircraft is made of composite materials and uses 20% less fuel than equivalent aircraft. Thomson Airways is the first British airline to take delivery of the new 787
View ArticleMI6 spy's death was 'unlikely to have been due to his work'
Gareth Williams's intelligence work was low-risk, says MI6 officer, who apologises to family over delay in reporting him missingThe family of the MI6 officer found dead in a padlocked bag in his bath...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch and Gordon Brown's correspondence on Afghanistan
The Leveson inquiry today released letters between Rupert Murdoch and the then prime minister, Gordon Brown, in which they disagreed about the Sun's editorial line on the Afghanistan war
View ArticleWhy wasn't it Africa that found Charles Taylor guilty? | Mwangi Kimenyi and...
Liberia's inability to judge its people has led to an international court convicting its former president of aiding war crimesFor far too long, dictators and warlords who have inflicted extensive...
View ArticleCharles Taylor guilty of Sierra Leone war crimes - video
UN-backed tribunal in The Hague finds former Liberian president guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes
View ArticleUrban analysis specialists launch the City Dashboard, a hub for real-time...
Metropolitan data experts at UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis today launched the City Dashboard, a live feed of information including weather, transport, local news and social media trends...
View ArticleThe persistence of superstition in an irreligious Britain | Andrew Brown
The decline in religious belief in the UK is matched by increasing faith in life after death – something incompatible with materialismAndrew Copson, who runs the British Humanist Association, is a...
View ArticleArizona immigration law – explore the supreme court transcripts
The US supreme court has been hearing arguments over the constitutionality of Arizona's controversial immigration law. Read the transcript from important points throughout the hearingGuardian in...
View ArticleExtract from an interview on population with Sir John Sulston - audio
Sir John Sulston, the author of a Royal Society report entitled People and the Planet, reacts to comments by author and climate sceptic Matt Ridley
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