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Flying robot quadrotors have better rhythm than you
Robotics scientists at TED unleash co-ordinated drones that mimic bird behavior to play the James Bond theme songAt TED2012, the University of Pennsylvania's deputy dean for education Vijay Kuma showed...
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Righting the record on prison rape | Sadhbh Walshe
One lone shareholder is on a crusade to force America's largest private prison corporation to publish records on sexual abuseAlex Friedmann, the associate editor of the monthly magazine Prison Legal...
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Ohio high school shooting: TJ Lane charged with aggravated murder
Lane, 17, faces life in prison without parole if tried as an adult for the killing of three students at Chardon High SchoolA teenager has been charged with killing three students in an Ohio school...
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The most important conservative of our time never to hold office | Chuck DeVore
Andrew Breitbart was an indispensable guide to all who seek to challenge America's dominant liberal cultural eliteThe incomparable Andrew Breitbart is gone, at the age of 43 – killed, in part, by his...
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Khodorkovsky – review
Not only is this documentary a fascinating insight into the fall of an oligarch, it's a glimpse into the soul of contemporary Russia itselfCyril Tuschi's documentary about the jailed Russian oligarch...
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Amateur video shows conditions aboard Costa Allegra - video
Video taken by a passenger aboard the stricken cruise ship shows the difficult conditions they were faced with
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TV review: Children of the Tsunami; Make Bradford British
Behind this children's-eye view of the tsunami lay a terrible wave of adult misery'It crashes down on you with such force," explains 10-year-old Rikku at the start of Children of the Tsunami (BBC2),...
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Engelbert Humperdinck rides to Britain's rescue at Eurovision
The veteran crooner from Leicester is hoping to beat the curse of 'nul points'It is 15 years since the UK last won Eurovision but the BBC will turn the clock back rather further than that in its bid to...
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Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battle for Ohio ahead of Super Tuesday – live
Live coverage as GOP presidential candidates step up their campaigns in the run-up to Super Tuesday5.13pm: And finally for tonight, a brief history of Mitt Romney's hatred of changing dirty nappies, or...
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Bob Geldof urges financiers to invest in Africa
Former Boomtown Rat makes case for private equity as 'major vehicle for positive change in this world'Bob Geldof, once the unlikeliest face of capitalism, has extolled the virtues of private equity for...
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Russia's presidential election: rigging is a delicate art | Editorial
It is hard to conceive of how the demands for fair elections, rule of law and end of corruption could be met without a revolutionFour days before the presidential elections in Russia, REN TV a...
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Istanbul sees history razed in the name of regeneration
Turkey's cultural capital is undergoing a huge construction programme that is driving out communitiesA few hundred metres from the bustling Taksim Square in Istanbul, the sound of jackhammers...
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Man shot dead in Belfast
Shooting of 25-year-old man in College Square North probably carried out by Republican group, Guardian toldA west Belfast man has been shot dead in what appears to have been a paramilitary-style...
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Syria: rebels withdraw from Baba Amr - live updates
• Syrian government claims it now controls Bab Amr• Rebels make "tactical withdrawal" and call in Red Cross• UK closes its embassy in Damascus • UN Security Council deplores humanitarian crisis• UN...
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Forgery most foul! Sheriff Joe Arpaio's birther revelations
Arizona sheriff's six-month investigation ends with Arpaio vowing to find whoever 'forged' Barack Obama's birth certificateIt's hard work being a conspiracy theorist. Just look at Sheriff Joe Arpaio,...
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Paris fashion week: Balenciaga gets down to business
Designer known for look combining fifties couture sensibilities with sci-fi overtones makes unexpected sidestep into the officeParis fashion week, bastion of the art of cerebral dressing, is the last...
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Washington expects Tehran to hit at US targets if Israel attacks Iran
US officials calculating that Iran will strike back but not seek to seriously escalate the conflict, expect "calibrated" responseWhether or not the US is directly party to an Israeli attack on Iran's...
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Argentine president calls for direct flights from Falklands to Buenos Aires
Kirchner adopts more conciliatory tone as she proposes more direct route between disputed islands and ArgentinaPresident Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wants a direct flight between Buenos Aires and...
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Syria's deadly neighbourhood and the desperate attempts to escape
After days in Baba Amr with little food or water, the journalists and activists had no choice except to leaveIn the bitterly cold darkness of last Sunday morning, four western reporters and a group of...
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Syrian forces retake Baba Amr district of Homs
• Regime forces take control after month-long siege• Reports of reprisal killings against civilians• Free Syrian Army 'will fight until Assad toppled'The Syrian suburb that became the symbol of the...
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