Letters: We don't slink away from south London
Peter Preston (The capital's melting pot, 9 January) provides an interesting picture of life in south London today. It's a picture which I recognise as Bishop of Southwark. But I simply do not...
View ArticleLetters: Trains, trees and Bechstein's bat
In France and Germany high-speed rail lines sweep through the landscape with pride, on elegant bridges and soaring viaducts, in the same way as did the railways of the Victorian age built by Brunel and...
View ArticleWhy California's prisoners are starving for solitary change | Sadhbh Walshe
Californian prisoners have repeatedly gone on hunger strike over the solitary confinement in which some spend decadesOn 19 December 2011, three prisoners at Corcoran State Prison wrote a letter to the...
View ArticleIranian nuclear chemist killed by motorbike assassins
Tensions escalate with US and Israel as Tehran accuses the Mossad in fifth murder of scientistsA chemist working at Iran's main uranium enrichment plant was killed on Wednesday when attackers on a...
View ArticleSyria attacks: 'If the regime wanted to prove Homs was safe, it failed ...'
French journalist among dead after convoy is attacked on official trip to war-hit cityIt was a trip Syria's ministry of information had gone to some lengths to arrange: taking foreign journalists to...
View ArticleNew Hampshire primary reaction: Mitt Romney versus the zombies - live
Mitt Romney and Ron Paul steam on from New Hampshire while zombie GOP rivals gather in South Carolina - live4pm: For your viewing pleasure: the full 28 minutes of the Mitt Romney vulture capitalism...
View ArticleMichelle Obama rejects claims of backroom conflict at White House
First lady rebuts 'angry black woman' allegations in new book as election campaign gains momentumShe is a brooding, "unrecognised force" in the White House, a new book claims; in frequent conflict with...
View ArticleEurozone crisis live: George Osborne says UK could increase IMF payments
• Chancellor: Britain could be swayed by well-argued case.• Merkel hints at bigger German contribution to bailout fund• German bond auction goes well• Germany shrinks 0.25% in fourth quarter• Today's...
View ArticleEyewitness: Baptism in the Jordan river
Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
View ArticleEviction is the best thing that could happen to Occupy London | Sid Ryan
Occupy claims it operates 'real democracy'. In fact it is a tyranny in which one vote can block any motion. It needs a rethinkThe camp at St Paul's cathedral was a beacon: it drew people from all over...
View ArticleRuling party claims victory in Taiwanese presidential election
Ma Ying-jeou's Nationalist party says he has beaten Tsai Ing-wen after count of 80% of votes shows six-point leadTaiwan's ruling party has claimed victory in the island's presidential election.The...
View ArticleEzra Pound's daughter fights to wrest the renegade poet's legacy from fascists
The 86-year-old Mary De Rachewiltz is taking on a band of Italian neofascists who are using her father's nameThe Italian castle where the poet Ezra Pound retreated in the 1950s to work on his epic poem...
View ArticleElBaradei quits Egypt presidential race
Reform leader pulls out, saying country's ruling junta has governed since Mubarak's exit 'as if no regime has fallen'The Egyptian reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei has dramatically announced his...
View ArticleIndia orders crackdown on 'human safaris' in the Andaman Islands
As outrage over exploitation of Jarawa tribe spreads, minister flies in for talksEmbarrassed officials in the Andaman Islands are desperately attempting to deal with the fallout from reported abuse of...
View ArticleInside Danish TV's thriller factory
As Borgen captivates a British audience, Maggie Brown goes to Copenhagen to visit the channel behind an extraordinary television boomAs they sift through a pile of enthusiastic British press cuttings,...
View ArticleMitt Romney, would-be president of the 0.001% | John Stoehr
We keep hearing that Romney is a moderate, but his economic policies make Reaganomics look like socialismAn old photograph of Mitt Romney has surfaced and, understandably, both liberals and...
View ArticleBarack Obama's strategists find rich pickings as feuding Republicans attack...
The GOP frontrunner's rivals portray him as a heartless financier. If Mitt Romney does win in South Carolina, the Democrats are ready to exploit that imageThe fierce fight for the Republican...
View ArticleShould trans screen roles be played by trans actors? | Juliet Jacques
Transsexual characters promote positive discussion, regardless of who plays them. But trans actors need more opportunities"He's playing a transsexual," said Ben Stephenson, controller of drama...
View ArticleCredit ratings: how Fitch, Moody's and S&P rate each country . Visualised -...
Standard and Poor's has downgraded nine countries in the eurozone. See how different credit rating agency compare countries• Get the data• US debt ceiling analysed• Who owns America's debt?How do...
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