Stop and search reform must look at efficacy | Sarah McSherry and Katherine...
Leebourne Clarke's case shows Met police commissioner's definition of a successful stop and search is flawedLast week's announcement from the Metropolitan police on reforming stop and search followed...
View ArticleThe Luminarias fiesta in Spain – in pictures
The Luminarias, in San Bartolomé de Pinares, a village in the province of Ávila, north-west of Madrid, takes place during the festival of Saint Anthony, patron saint of animals
View ArticleTortuous ruling may fuel demands for secret trials | Eric Metcalfe
Strasbourg has produced a ruling that both weakens the international prohibition against torture while doubtless provoking fresh outrage from the tabloidsWould you believe the promise of a torturer not...
View ArticleDivided we stand: what if South Carolina were independent?
What kind of country would it be? How would a US divided by 30 historic and present-day secessionist movements look? This map aims to see what kind of countries they would beYou don't get to be one of...
View ArticleProtecting France's Mediterranean salt marshes, a haven for migratory species
Solving bird species' 'housing crisis' requires careful planning and precision timing in managing water flowsNear the Mediterranean resort of Sète, on a 140-hectare expanse of wetland that used to be...
View ArticleHatem Ben Arfa to be sued by French rapper over religious cult claims
• Newcastle winger made claims in newspaper interview• Abd al Malik and his manager both plan to take legal actionHatem Ben Arfa is to be sued for libel after claiming he was press-ganged into joining...
View ArticleEurozone crisis: Auctions success despite S&P downgrade
• EFSF sells €1.5bn of short-term debt• €501.9bn stashed with the European Central Bank • EFSF boss: S&P downgrade shouldn't matter • German economic sentiment jumps by record amount• Today's...
View ArticleWhy Abu Qatada can't be tried in the UK | Richard Norton-Taylor
Putting the terror suspect on trial would quite simply embarrass MI5Why can't Abu Qatada be tried in Britain? Though he is wanted by Jordan, where he was tried in absentia on terrorist charges, he is...
View ArticleCosta Concordia crew member on struggle to evacuate cruise passengers – video
The Italian coastguard has released video shot from a helicopter on the night the Costa Concordia cruise liner ran aground
View ArticleThe South Carolina GOP debate bruises Mitt Romney | Ana Marie Cox
Romney struggled for convincing responses as his adversaries ganged up on him in front of a conservative audienceRomney has been trying to lower expectations since before the race for the GOP...
View ArticleSyria: 'heading for civil war' - live updates
• Russia submits new draft resolution on Syria to the UN• Syria's divisions appear to be deepening, Ian Black reports• UN to train Arab League observers1.22pm: Index on Censorship has investigated the...
View ArticleThomas Jefferson's revolutionary take on the Bible reissued
Former US president took a razor to parts of the Gospels he did not agree with to compile his own versionHe was one of the men who laid the foundations for God's own country, but Thomas Jefferson had...
View ArticleWhat impact will the Costa Concordia disaster have on the environment?
The fate of the Costa Concordia cruise liner highlights the wider impact of the cruise industry. Leo Hickman, with your help, investigates. Get in touch below the line, email your views to...
View ArticleCosta Concordia: divers blow holes in cruise liner
Rescuers try to access flooded lower cabins as number of passengers missing on stricken vessel stands at 29Navy explosives experts have blown a series of holes in the hull of the stricken cruise liner...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament under fire for equating Vaclav Havel with Franco ally
Supporter of Nick Clegg condemns as 'cheap trick' decision to hold joint minute's silence for Václav Havel and Franco ministerThe ghosts of Europe's troubled past hover over the institutions of the...
View ArticleCosta Concordia: coastguard 'ordered captain to return to the ship'
Italian newspapers report damning claims about the behaviour of the captain, Francesco SchettinoThe captain of the Costa Concordia was ordered by the coastguard to return to the stricken ship after...
View ArticleSo what if Beyoncé's skin colour is looking lighter?
Beyoncé is caught up in another 'white-skin row'. But, like most other people on earth, black people's skin tone changes with the seasonsBeyoncé must be exhausted. She has just had a baby girl, who has...
View ArticleItalian cruise ship divers find five bodies
Confirmed death toll of Costa Concordia disaster reaches 11 after bodies of four men and one woman in lifejackets foundDivers have found five more bodies in the stern of the wrecked Costa Concordia,...
View ArticleSyria: 20 miles from Damascus, an oasis of fragile freedom
Zabadani has effectively been liberated for a month, thanks to the Free Syrian Army. But it's a liberty under constant siegeIn the centre of Zabadani, in the little square by the mosque, stands what at...
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