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Steve Bell on the eurozone crisis – cartoon
Europe's elite braced for Greece exit amid political impasse in Athens and talk in Brussels of possible end of single currencySteve Bell
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The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death
Groundbreaking Columbia law school study sets out in shocking detail the flaws that led to Carlos DeLuna's execution in 1989A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme...
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Twitter now has 10m users in UK
UK is the fourth-largest country for Twitter users in the world, with 80% accessing it with mobile phonesTwitter now has 10 million active users in the UK, out of 140 million worldwide, the company has...
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Thailand's government seeks to get a head start on improving road safety
Motorbikes are ubiquitous in Thailand, but helmets are not. Activists aim to tackle a problem that claims thousands of livesIf you're a visitor to Thailand who likes to do as the locals do, you may...
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Earth's environment getting worse, not better, says WWF ahead of Rio+20
Swelling population, mass migration to cities, increasing energy use and soaring CO2 emissions squeeze planet's resourcesTwenty years on from the Rio Earth summit, the environment of the planet is...
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Soyuz spaceship blasts off for ISS mission
Since the retirement of the space shuttles, the US is dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the space station, at £37m eachA Soyuz spaceship carrying two Russians and one American astronaut has...
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The Margaret Thatcher unlookalike!
Start the day with a smile... move over Meryl Streep and make way for this very different impersonation of Margaret Thatcher. Britain's former prime minister is portrayed by a man called Shu Jya Wei, a...
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Behind the scenes at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology hawk cam | video |...
This video captures the time and effort it took to mount a birdcam on a light tower overlooking Cornell University's athletic fieldOne of the many things that I love about all this newly affordable...
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My day at the Amnesty Young Human Rights Reporter awards
Sajeela Shah's pupils didn't think they were worthy of entering national writing competition but one of them ended up having the 'best day of her life' after being shortlisted for the prizeI discovered...
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Iran hangs man accused of killing nuclear scientist
Majid Jamali Fashi, 24, was labelled a Mossad agent by Iran and sentenced to death for the murder of Masoud Ali-MohammadiIran has hanged a man accused of being an Israeli agent who was convicted of...
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Eurozone crisis live: Greece talks continue as euro exit fears grow
The president of Greece will make one last attempt to form a government today• German GDP rises 0.5%• French economy stagnates8.22am: European stock markets have recovered in early trading, thanks to...
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Mladic war crimes trial plunged into confusion
Lawyers prosecuting Bosnian Serb commander failed to provide documents to defence, causing judge to announce delayThe Hague war crimes tribunal, already under fire for its slow pace in dealing with...
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Barack Obama tells EU: boost growth now or face a global crisis
Germany to be urged to ease austerity during G8 talks as fears of global recession growBarack Obama is to put pressure on Germany to ease the pain of austerity with policies to boost growth, as he uses...
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Facebook share price set at $38
Social network's landmark flotation has investors clamouring to buy, but some analysts issue warnings about IPOFacebook has set the final price of shares in its landmark initial public offering at $38...
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G8 summit: Obama to announce $3bn private funding for developing countries
Aid agencies warn rich nations not to 'pawn off' $22bn promised to developing countries as leaders meet at Camp DavidBarack Obama is to make a major speech in Washington announcing at least $3bn in...
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Chinese fugitive Lai Changxing sentenced to life in prison
Billionaire who fought extradition from Canada for more than a decade has been jailed for life for smuggling and briberyA billionaire entrepreneur who symbolised the wild excesses of China's economic...
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Fishing observers 'intimidated and bribed by EU crews'
Quota checks allegedly being compromised aboard Northwest Atlantic Fishery boats, as observers report surveillance and theftObservers monitoring European fish quotas are being regularly intimidated,...
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Shades of the past as people flee fighting in Congo's Kivu provinces
The displacement of 20,000 Congolese people following violence between rebels and the army is ominously redolent of the 2008 conflict in the Democratic Republic of the CongoAfter three years of...
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Twitter to use Do Not Track
Social network to honour requests from users who do not want online behaviour recorded – unlike Google and FacebookTwitter says it will honour requests from users who do not want their online behaviour...
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This bookseller deserved his incitement to terrorism conviction | Matthew...
I was a witness in Ahmed Faraz's trial – this is the first time anyone involved has spoken about what really happenedThe trial and conviction last December of a Muslim bookseller, Ahmed Faraz, for...
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