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I saw massacre of children, says defecting Syrian air force officer
As UN envoy warns of all-out war, a major has provided crucial evidence on the Houla killingsA senior Syrian military officer has described how he defected to opposition forces after witnessing...
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No wonder the working man despises the elites | Nick Cohen
How long before the people of Europe wake up to the fact that they are not living in a democracy?The European crisis is as much political as economic. It raises fundamental democratic questions. By...
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Silvio Berlusconi says idea Italy should dump euro was 'a joke'
Former prime minster says press had taken seriously what he had said 'with a smile and irony'Silvio Berlusconi said on Saturday he was only joking when he suggested that Italy should dump the euro...
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Martin Amis: a new chapter in America
When Martin Amis moved to New York it gave rise to reports that he loathed England. Not so. His new novel is, he says, no "V sign" to Britain…It was death that urged Martin Amis to America – though...
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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
Coriolanus; W.E.; Iron Sky; Michael; Juan of the DeadDespite the universal saleability of all things Shakespeare, there's a good reason why film-makers have previously steered clear of his later...
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Support? Criticism? The IMF's view of the UK offers something for everyone
You could read Christine Lagarde's comments on Osborne whichever way you liked. But even the markets are now beginning to fear the prospect of a Plan A without growthAt our house, as at many others, it...
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Assad's furry friend
Chris Riddell on Russia's embrace of the Syrian despotChris Riddell
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Under Our Skin: A White Family's Journey Through South Africa's Darkest Years...
Donald McRae's memoir of growing up in apartheid-era South Africa offers an unflinching view of a nation in which all logic is invertedThere was only one news story in South Africa at the end of last...
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New to nature No 74: Ripipteryx mopana
A tiny relative of the grasshopper has been identified from a single specimen in remote BelizeInsects of the order Orthoptera, including grasshoppers and crickets, are known for their enlarged hind...
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Natalia Kaliada: 'In Belarus it's very simple – everything's repressed'
The exiled co-founder of the Belarus Free Theatre on the company's new play and the escalating brutality in her homelandWhen I interviewed you last year, you'd been forced to leave Belarus and were...
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Callum Roberts: if seas are to survive, we need a New Deal for the Oceans
Callum Roberts charts the damage we inflict on our oceans and marine life, and has radical plans to curb further depredationsCallum Roberts is a marine biologist, writer and conservationist. His career...
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Race to map Africa's forgotten glaciers before they melt away
A team of scientists and photographers aims to document the Earth's threatened and fading glaciersPtolemy thought they were the source of the Nile and called them the Mountains of the Moon because of...
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Houla massacre: who decides what is too shocking to print?
Don McCullin believed the full horrors of war should be exposed, as a timely film on the photographer revealsA baby girl with half her skull hacked away; a young boy "with the back of his head lopped...
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How could Spain's 'secure' banks descend into crisis?
It avoided toxic derivatives and helped to rescue Britain's lenders. But the Spanish banking sector was so laden with property debt that the eurozone's fourth largest economy is near collapseA team of...
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With $30bn, BP can find new partners after its dance with the Great Bear
The TNK-BP joint venture has been very profitable but turbulent. Where should Bob Dudley cast his gaze now?Lord Browne was rightly called the Sun King when he was at BP – because of the huge influence...
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Dare nine men defy the siren call of Christine Lagarde?
On the agenda this week: weakness in the west… but a new kind of strength in the eastAll eyes on Threadneedle Street this week as the City waits (prays) for the Bank of England to fire up its magic...
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Bank bailout makes Spaniards question their future as euro agonies mount
Spaniards having to tighten their belts find it hard to stomach bailing out banks whose recklessness has brought them to ruinLuz María Reyes had her bags packed and was ready to leave. A bulging red...
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'Graduates who come to the UK will do anything to pay the rent'
Hardship at home has made Spanish fastest-growing group of foreign workers in the UKLorena is an agricultural engineer from Galicia and Moisés is a graduate of international business from Asturias....
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Deadly shooting at Toronto shopping mall
Man killed and others hurt by gunshots and stampede in Eaton Centre, one of Canada's busiest shopping centresA gunman has escaped after killing a man and wounding five others at Toronto's Eaton Centre,...
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Bilderberg 2012: real men don't like oligarchs
Can the might of Bilderberg be worn down by this torrent of testosterone, megaphones and blatantly eaten goji berries?I handed the goji berries to the cop. "He dropped these." The cop thanked me,...
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