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Ye Shiwen's world record Olympic swim: brilliant, or too good to be true?
Swimmer's final length – faster than Ryan Lochte's – has raised doubts, but there is no evidence against her except her speedIt was not Ye Shiwen's winning time that aroused John Leonard's suspicion,...
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How European Central Bank can safeguard the euro
Financial markets want the ECB to put its strong words of support into action when it meets in Frankfurt this weekMario Draghi's blunt statement that the ECB will do "whatever it takes" to safeguard...
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Abu Qatada seeks judicial review of detention
Radical Islamist preacher whose deportation was blocked by deadline mix-up is launching fresh bid for releaseThe radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada, who has spent more than six years in detention,...
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Women in Gaza: how life has changed
Behind the blockade, conservatism is rising, but so too is unemployment, poverty, depression and domestic violenceEman, 23, is dressed in a black, veiled jilbab and lives in a collapsing shack on the...
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Our economic ruin means freedom for the super-rich | George Monbiot
Cameron and Osborne's neoliberal agenda promised prosperity for all, but created a totalitarian capitalism that feeds on crisisThe model is dead; long live the model. Austerity programmes are extending...
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Letters: No room in the Olympic family for genuine sports fans
My 12-year-old daughter, a member of three sports clubs in Newham, started saving Christmas and birthday money to buy Olympics tick ets. Two weeks at home in the Olympic borough would replace an annual...
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Twitter suspends British journalist critical of NBC's Olympics coverage
Social media site sparks wave of indignation for banning Independent journalist Guy Adams after complaint from NBCTwitter has brought down a hail of critical tweeting on its own head by suspending the...
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Letters: Multicultural realities of our colonial past
Pankaj Mishra's heart-felt account (The ruins of empire, Saturday Review, July 28) of Asian and African feelings about their collective colonial experience fails to analyse how much of western...
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Feminism and flirtation are by no means unlikely bedfellows | Hannah Betts
In the world of work, it pays for women to use an iron hand in a velvet and deftly stroking glove"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realised it when caught by her charm," is that line...
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India's power cuts speak of a country that is rich but fails to invest in...
India needs long-overdue institutional reform and infrastructure investment if its success story is to continueWorking at home in Kolkata, I'm surrounded by clouds that bring little rain, and by a...
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Peter Jackson's The Hobbit to be extended to three films
Lord of the Rings director will add third film to turn JRR Tolkien adaptation into trilogy, with first set for release in DecemberPeter Jackson's film adaptation of The Hobbit will be split into three...
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Mario Monti and Italy: after the carnival, the meagre diet of Lent | Tobias...
Italians might be bewildered by Monti's greyness, but they're also strangely proud to have a statesman in charge at lastFor almost nine months now, Italians have been trying to figure out what makes...
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Barack Obama may be descendant of first African slave in colonial America
Genealogy website Ancestry.com finds that the president's white mother is the progeny of America's first documented slaveA study of Barack Obama's family history has revealed that he is likely to be a...
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Ruta Meilutyte grabs a gold for Lithuania
The 15-year-old Lithuanian defeated a vastly more experienced field to win the women's 100m breaststroke titleAfter a disappointing day in the Olympic pool, Britain did not win a medal, but got the...
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Jonah Lehrer quits New Yorker after admitting he made up Dylan quotes
New Yorker staff writer quit his gig after admitting to falsifying statements from folk singer Bob Dylan in his bestselling bookJonah Lehrer, a staff writer for the New Yorker, has resigned after...
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New York woman sentenced to 12 years for abducting newborn in 1987
Parents of kidnapped baby present in court as Ann Pettway admits to abducting infant Carlina White 24 years agoA woman who snatched a 19-day-old baby from a New York hospital ward and brought her up as...
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London 2012: Taiwan compete reluctantly under flag of convenience
The influence of China has forced them to compete as Chinese Taipei, with an unfamiliar flag and a neutral anthemWhen Hsu Shu-ching took to the podium to receive her silver medal in the women's 53kg...
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Olympic spirit holds firm as politeness breaks out in GB win over Argentina
Geopolitics and Falklands tensions are left behind as Britain's men's hockey team begin their Olympic campaign with a 4-1 winThe only way this hockey game could bully off worse is if they flew the...
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How the ECB came to control the fate of the world economy | Mark Weisbrot
The ECB has the power to end the eurozone crisis. But it refuses to do so – in order to push a regressive political agendaWorld stock markets and European bond markets rallied last week in response to...
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Olympics 2012: the alternative medals table
We all know who's in the lead on the medal tables - but what would happen if you looked at them by population size, or GDP - or even compared to the number of athletes in each team? A team of...
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