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Donor gender policies fail to tackle power imbalances | Andrea Cornwall
For all their talk of empowerment, initiatives by development agencies and donors fail to tackle power imbalances, and do not allow women to realise their own hopes and dreamsThe empowerment of women...
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Giles Fraser's Thinking Aloud podcast: the happiness conspiracy
An old mate of mine, Professor Michael Argyle, was a distinguished expert on the psychology of happiness, working on the subject throughout his academic career at Oxford. But his summery answer to the...
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky gets sentence review after Putin victory
Jailed oligarch on list of 32 cases queried by Dmitry Medvedev, the outgoing Russian presidentDmitry Medvedev, the outgoing Russian president, has extended an olive branch to opponents of the Kremlin,...
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Al-Qaida kill 25 Iraqi police officers
Gang kidnap and execute two police commanders and then attack two checkpoints before hoisting al-Qaida flag in HadithaA gang of gunmen wearing military-style uniforms has killed 25 police officers in a...
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Syria: Baba Amr cleared but uprising continues
• UN humanitarian chief and former secretary general to visit• Red Cross allowed into Homs but not Baba Amr• Syrian refugees flee to Lebanon • Read the latest summary4.13pm: Here's a summary of events...
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Row threatens Cologne's mega mosque
Architect and developers of multimillion euro project in dispute over everything from soaring costs to colour of facadeIt was conceived as a project that would foster dialogue between Muslims and...
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Protests over Russian presidential election results – in pictures
Thousands of people have taken to the streets to celebrate or challenge Vladimir Putin's victory in the country's elections
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This leaders' boycott of François Hollande is simply not clever | Agnès Poirier
France's Socialist presidential hopeful is being shunned by a coalition of European leaders. Too fiery for the austerity tsars?The French may be particularly fond of them, but this is not just another...
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Citizen journalists undertake mission in Syria: 'Bullets don't discriminate'
Two Americans whose first foray into citizen journalism was filming at an Occupy protest have moved on to one of the most dangerous places in the world for reporters of any skill levelEven for the...
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Android 'free' apps pass user data to advertisers, study finds
Research finds UK users' data is passed to US network – potentaily breaching European data protection lawsAdvertising networks used by apps in Android devices can get access to user information,...
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Plume – review
Tron, GlasgowThe birds and the bees in JC Marshall's timely play signify not sex but death. In a poetic flourish, she pictures the victims of a mid-air terrorist atrocity being accompanied by an array...
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Former Icelandic prime minister says trial will vindicate him
Trial begins of Geir Haarde, the first politician in the world to face charges over 2008 financial crisisThe former prime minister of Iceland has become the first politician in the world to stand trial...
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Santorum confident of good day in Ohio as he bids to spoil Romney's party
Rick Santorum makes final push in Ohio as polls show Mitt Romney has momentum going into vital Super Tuesday contestRepublican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum made a final push on Monday in Ohio,...
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This grave desecration does not mean Libya is out of control | Ian Birrell
The outrage must be addressed, but don't give up on an emerging nation because of a handful of bigoted foolsThe morning had been spent dodging Muammar Gaddafi's security stooges and talking to...
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Lord St John of Fawsley obituary
Tory champion of Commons committees with a showman's flair for promoting the artsNorman St John-Stevas, Lord St John of Fawsley, who has died aged 82, was as vivid a personality as politics can bear....
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Oklahoma primary voters explain how they made their decision - video
Film-maker Kat Keene Hogue travels to Oklahoma to ask primary voters one simple question: 'What decided your vote?'Kat Keene Hogue
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Romney closes the gap in Santorum's conservative southern stronghold
Once commanded convincingly by Rick Santorum, Tennessee is showing signs of swaying to Mitt Romney's more moderate sideMitt Romney is making inroads into Rick Santorum's stronghold in the south as the...
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Afghan clerics' guidelines 'a green light for Talibanisation'
Edicts released by Hamid Karzai issue repressive rules for women who, they declare, are subordinate to menWomen are subordinate to men, should not mix in work or education and must always have a male...
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Khodorkovsky director Cyril Tuschi in conversation with Luke Harding
Cyril Tuschi, the director of Khodorkovsky, a documentary on the jailed Russian oligarch that we've been streaming this week, joined Luke Harding for an interview in the Guardian's office. Here's the...
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Gay prisoners to get jail tales shown in Artangel installation
Mark Storor worked with jailed gay men for three years to create new work A Tender SubjectIn a cold and dilapidated rehearsal room on the City of London outskirts, five men in blindfolds are being led...
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