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Possibility of Indian boycott of Olympic opening ceremony grows
• Indian government asks IOC to sever links with Dow Chemical• Opening and closing ceremonies in London could be boycottedIndian government officials are discussing a boycott of the opening and closing...
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ANC expels head of youth league
Julius Malema's appeal against a five-year suspension for bringing party into disrepute backfires, resulting in expulsionAn audacious youth leader once tipped as a future president of South Africa has...
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Davy Jones – a life in pictures
The frontman of the 60s pop group the Monkees has died in Florida aged 66
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Dictators’ wives – in pictures
Their husbands have run some of the most brutal regimes of the Arab world, but present and former first ladies presented a different image to the world
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Senegal elections: President Abdoulaye Wade fails to secure outright win
Voters deny victory to leader seeking third term, forcing a tough second round of electionsSenegal's president, Abdoulaye Wade, has failed to secure an outright win and a third term by polling less...
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Google privacy policy changes spark EU inquiry
France asks European data authorities to investigate pooling of user data, which has begun as of Thursday 1 MarchGoogle's new privacy rules, which have come into force as of Thursday 1 March, are to be...
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Indonesia's tiger habitat pulped for paper, investigation shows
Greenpeace evidence reveals threatened trees have been chopped down and sent to factories to be pulpedThe habitat of the endangered Sumatran tiger is being rapidly destroyed in order to make tissues...
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Costa Allegra arrives in Seychelles port
Stranded cruise ship with more than 1,000 passengers on board docking in Seychelles after three days at sea without powerThe cruise ship Costa Allegra arrived in the Seychelles on Thursday morning...
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Romney setback as Santorum takes half of Michigan delegates
Proportional system reduces Republican frontrunner's victory in state of his birth to a tie despite winning majority of votesMitt Romney's marginal primary victory in the Michigan has turned out to be...
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From the archive, 1 March 1973: Second battle of Wounded Knee
Originally published in the Guardian on 1 March 1973The town where Chief Sitting Bull met his tragic end at the hands of the Seventh Cavalry 80 years ago - Wounded Knee, South Dakota - was taken over,...
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Global mining boom is leading to landgrab, says report
Huge increase in large-scale mining is being fuelled by the rising price of metals and oil, as search for minerals centres on AfricaThe global mining, oil and gas industries have expanded so fast in...
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Somali radio journalist murdered
A veteran Somali journalist who had been trying to relaunch a radio station shut down by an extremist group has been shot dead.Abukar Hassan Mohamoud, nicknamed Kadaf, was the former director of the...
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Abell bids farewell to the PCC with a few pointers to the future
Stephen Abell, the final director of the dying Press Complaints Commission, departed yesterday. But, as he told me in a valedictory interview, published in yesterday's London Evening Standard, he has...
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Eurozone crisis live: Leaders gather for EU summit
• EU summit begins in Brussel this afternoon• Eurogroup to discuss Greece again8.05am: Although the EU summit doesn't begin until this afternoon, we should hear from Angela Merkel shortly. There's also...
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Israeli PM demands Obama pledge on Iran
Binyamin Netanyahu pressing for explicit threat from US ahead of crucial meeting with Obama next week in WashingtonIsrael is pressing Barack Obama for an explicit threat of military action against Iran...
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EU justice chief warns Google over 'sneaking' citizens' privacy away
Viviane Reding says there are 'doubts' over legality of internet giant's move as French authorities open EU-wide investigationThe European commissioner of justice, Viviane Reding, has delivered a...
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John Yates's Michelin guide to counter-terrorism | Michael White
It seemed that the Met's ex-assistant commissioner would risk his cholesterol count anywhere in the interests of law and orderAlmost three hours into his testimony-by-satellite to Lord Justice...
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Chrysler reports best sales figures in four years as February shows 40% rise
Auto giant shows 40% rise from last year's February figures, with sales increasing at Ford and GM despite rising gas pricesUS car manufacturers enjoyed bumper sales in February as drivers bought...
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Letters: Jenny Tonge, the Lib Dems and Israel
Nick Clegg was absolutely correct to demand that my colleague in the House of Lords, Baroness Tonge, should apologise for her illiberal remarks or have her Liberal Democrat whip removed (Lib Dem peer...
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Letters: End the Afghan war
Two days ago, I received a 13-day prison sentence for my role in a 2009 protest outside Britain's military nerve centre in Northwood against the bombing of Afghanistan. When I was in Afghanistan...
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