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Romney gets no significant boost from Ryan
US presidential race remains neck and neck despite attention received by Republican's pick for running mateMitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate has not altered the race...
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Ecuador stands firm over Assange
Rafael Correa says allegations should still be investigated but Ecuador will stand firm on asylum for WikiLeaks founderEcuador's president, Rafael Correa, has said Julian Assange should respond to the...
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Meles Zenawi the ideologue has left Ethiopia at a dangerous crossroads |...
It is difficult to imagine the survival of policies initiated by the ambitious but intolerant leader without his leadershipEthiopia's state TV broke the news of the death of prime minister Meles Zenawi...
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'Health tourist' flies into Manchester for emergency operation
The heavily pregnant woman, who had complications with her pregnancy, flew in from Nigeria for a caesarean sectionThe Manchester Evening News has an interesting story about a so-called 'health tourist'...
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Italians pack Speedos as Dolomites lake hit by soaring temperatures
Glacial lake is usually icy cold even in summer, and efforts to halt Alpine glaciers melting considered to too little and too lateMountain trekkers, packing essentials before heading for the glaciers...
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South Africa threatens 'wine war' against UK over bulk exports
Importing wine in tanks and bottling it in Britain jeopardises hundreds of packaging jobs, government warnsThe glass is half-full for South Africa's wine producers. The country has more than 100,000...
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Julian Assange can stay in embassy for 'centuries', says Ecuador
Britain should withdraw 'threat' to storm building in Knightsbridge, say Ecuadorean officialsEcuadorean officials have said that Britain should renounce its "threat" to storm the country's London...
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Pussy Riot is the tip of the iceberg – 'there's a lot of intimidation going on'
Maria Baronova has had her flat raided, her laptops taken, and now faces two years in jail – all for being an anti-Putin activistMaria Baronova wasn't at home on the morning eight masked officers armed...
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Slovenian balloon crash kills four people and injures 28 more
Injured survivors tell of hot-air balloon carrying 32 people hitting ground at speed and subsequent blazeA hot-air balloon carrying tourists, including children, has plunged to the ground in flames...
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Photographer Richard Mosse to represent Ireland at Venice Biennale
The surrealist photographer, who is best known for his candy-coloured infrared images of conflict in Congo, will create an immersive version of his works from the regionIn pictures: Richard Mosse's...
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How food insecurity keeps the workforce cowed | Richard Seymour
The development of food banks in the UK marks a shift from welfare to the punitive management of povertyLambeth council is turning to food banks in order to manage the crisis of soaring poverty in the...
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Rio artistic collective's sweet deal ends as Olympics development spreads
Sculptors, painters and designers hope rare Beijing precedent will save their community in former confectionary factoryA community of artists in a former confectionery factory in Rio de Janeiro have...
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Elisabeth Murdoch rounds on father and brother in MacTaggart lecture
Rupert Murdoch's second daughter attacks News Corp values in keynote address at Edinburgh television festivalTensions within the world's most powerful media family were dramatically laid bare on...
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Nepalese snake bites man. Man bites snake to death
Mohamed Salmo Miya, 55, uses teeth to kill cobra after being enraged by reptile's audacity in biting him first, reports sayA Nepalese man who was bitten by a cobra snake bit it back and killed the...
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Suspected stowaway on British Airways jumbo jet found dead at Heathrow
Man understood to have climbed into landing gear bay in Cape Town and died in temperatures of -60C during flightThe body of a presumed stowaway was discovered on a British Airways plane that arrived at...
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John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman denied parole for seventh time
Chapman, 57, shot Lennon dead outside the Dakota building in Manhattan in 1980 and pleaded guilty to second-degree murderJohn Lennon's killer has been denied release from prison in his seventh...
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Elisabeth Murdoch's MacTaggart lecture: full text
Keynote speech made by Rupert Murdoch's second daughter at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 2012
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Borders and Southern shares soar after Falkland Islands well results
London-listed company carries out geological tests in the face of legal threats from ArgentinaThe possibility of an oil boom around the Falkland Islands which could further inflame tension between...
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To Republicans, women are simply the sum of their parts
The GOP's adoption of an anti-abortion platform is further indication of a party that has no clue about reproductive lifeThere's no doubt that Todd Akin's stunningly misguided understanding of female...
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Inside Somaliland's pirate prison, the jail that no country wants
Breakaway territory offers solution for holding bandits caught at sea, but concerns raised over conditions and 'unjust' convictionsA pair of dark eyes peers through a narrow slit in a high green metal...
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