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Standard Chartered: rogue bank or victim of renegade regulator?
Only one side can win in the fight between the bank and New York's state department of financial services over Iran allegationsWhich is it? Is Standard Chartered a "rogue institution", as the New York...
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Mitt Romney's big fat Greek yogurt | Oliver Burkeman
'Pool' coverage of the Republican candidate's every move just started … and the prospective president went grocery shoppingIf you've been watching too many Aaron Sorkin dramas, it's possible that...
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Standard Chartered joins banks in US sights over sanctions-busting claims
Labour MP fears US regulators may targeting 'wild west' culture in City to grab business for New YorkThe Labour MP John Mann, an outspoken member of the Treasury select committee, has called for a...
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British Somalis: nomads no more | Nadifa Mohamed
Mo Farah's glorious gold medal symbolises the emergence of Britain's Somali communityFor most of my childhood in London people were confused by me. They would look at me askance and ask, "Are you...
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Banking: standards are slipping | Editorial
Dealings a long way from home no longer look like such a sure way of safeguarding a reputationBack in the not so distant days of 2008, the City blazed, but two towers of banking stood in splendid...
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Jared Loughner enters guilty plea after being found competent to stand trial
Psychologist says Arizona shooting suspect understands charges as Loughner enters plea deal that spares death penaltyJared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty on Tuesday to killing six people and wounding 13...
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Country diary: Wenlock Edge: On watch with the gatekeeper butterfly
Wenlock Edge: The gatekeeper is a hedger, stridently brown and brassy in the margins, muscling into a vacancyThe gatekeeper butterfly is poised on a nettle as if it's waiting. With the same brown,...
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Letters: British left and the loathing tendency
So Stuart Jeffries, in a dig at Britain in his summary of the Olympic Games (4 August), has become accustomed … to loathing this … country – its meanness, racism, imperial shame … mediocre royals". Why...
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Blog: Celebrating Ramadan in Mumbai
The month of Ramadan (or Ramzan in Urdu), which ends on 18 August this year, is an excuse for an all-night food festival. Nowhere more so than Mumbai's Mohammed Ali Road, which becomes a...
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Greek mass arrests of illegal immigrants
Thousands of migrants are being held in detention centres near Athens before being deported back to their home countriesGreek authorities have begun one of the country's biggest crackdowns yet on...
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Bangladesh turns away Burmese tribe
Bangladesh turns away and bans aid to thousands of displaced Muslim Rohingya people trying to cross river to TeknafMohammad Hanif is still trying to piece together the night his life changed for ever....
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Iran backs Assad in Syria crisis and blames 'warmongering' US
Tehran officials go to Damascus over pilgrims affair, and reach out to Turkey, Lebanon and Qatar in diplomatic offensiveIran has launched a new campaign to intervene in the Syrian crisis, sending its...
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London 2012: South Korea hopes to eclipse Beijing medal haul
Nation just one behind tally from Olympics four years ago and hopes taekwondo will prove fertile ground for more metalSouth Korea's first week at London 2012 was marked as much by despair as elation,...
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Anni Dewani killing: South African jailed for 25 years after admitting murder...
South African court jails Mziwamadoda Qwabe, one of two men accused of being hired by British newlywed Shrien Dewani to kill his bride on their honeymoon in Cape Town
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Anni Dewani killing: second man accuses husband of arranging murder
Mziwamadoda Qwabe confesses to murdering honeymooner in Cape Town, saying her husband, Shrien, set up a contractA second South African man has confessed to his role in the 2010 Cape Town murder of...
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The shape of British summers to come?
It's been a dull, damp few months and some scientists think we need to get used to it. Melting ice in Greenland could be bringing permanent changes to our climateSeeing satellite pictures from...
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Ramadan: the day I invited non-Muslim guests to iftar
It's the meal at the end of a day's fast – but what happened when our writer invited some strangers to share the experience?I have two strangers coming for dinner. This is nerve-racking: who in their...
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Wade Michael Page and the rise of violent far-right extremism
The man who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was not just a crazed loner, but a vocal neo-Nazi – in fact, his white supremacist ideology reflected a growing form of extremism that expresses...
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Why are Sikhs targeted by anti-Muslim extremists?
The shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin is just the most recent example of members of the religion being singled out for violence and abuse"It's a common thing," says Balvinder Kaur Saund, a Labour...
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Syria crisis: Ban Ki-moon set to announce new peace envoy
UN secretary general thought to favour Nordic candidate to replace Kofi Annan, who will leave his post at the end of AugustThe UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon has held talks with the Arab League in...
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