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White House plans to tackle oil prices - US politics live
President Obama issues crackdown on oil price manipulation as Mitt Romney woos the Tea Party and holds a picnic6.14pm: One last drop of joy from Mitt Romney charming picnic with regular voters in...
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Nasa's voyage of Discovery | Kevin Fong
The grand era of exclusively federally-funded space exploration is over. Nasa must now boldly go into public-private partnershipOn Tuesday 17 April, Space Shuttle Discovery took to the air one last...
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Colonial Office files detail 'eliminations' to choke Malayan insurgency
Documents transferred to National Archives lay bare how communist groups were targeted in long jungle warThe "elimination of ranking terrorists" was a repeated theme in secret monthly reports on...
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Google v Oracle: we wanted to take on Android, admits Ellison
Oracle claims Google used Java illegally; Google counters that Oracle only began its suit after giving up on smartphone raceOracle chief executive Larry Ellison has admitted that he wanted to enter...
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Britain's colonial struggles - in pictures
The release of secret files sheds light on the last phase of British rule in Kenya, Malaya and Aden
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The colonial papers: FCO transparency is a carefully cultivated myth
Professor of history Caroline Elkins, who has worked on historic Kenya files released by the British government, analyses its record of scrubbing and concealing embarrassing informationFor decades, the...
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World is failing South Sudan – Brown
Former PM launches attack on global community for failure to improve education in world's newest countryThe former prime minister Gordon Brown is to deliver a strong attack on international aid donors...
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Barack Obama's father tops colonial list of Kenyan students in US
Formerly secret British file reveals US concerns that Kenyans studying in America were 'falling into the wrong hands'The name of Barack Obama, the father of the American president, is on the top of a...
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Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes
Review finds thousands of papers detailing shameful acts were culled, while others were kept secret illegallyThousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during...
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Britain planned poison gas tests in Botswana, records reveal
Ministry of Aircraft Production tried to find isolated area for trials in 1943 but had to postpone plan as rainy season approachedBritain planned to test a very virulent type of poison gas in what is...
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Iranian singer Arya Aramnejad sentenced to a year in jail
Aramnejad has released songs online condemning regime's crackdown against opposition Green movementA popular Iranian singer who publicly defied regime censorship by releasing pro-opposition songs on...
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Woman killed and baby abducted in Houston
Shooting and kidnapping occurred after an altercation outside a paediatric centre, police toldA mother has been killed and her newborn son abducted outside a paediatric centre in suburban Houston,...
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Aung San Suu Kyi to visit UK and Norway
Nobel laureate and newly elected MP accepts invitations to visit Norway and UK in first overseas trip in 24 yearsAfter nearly two decades under house arrest in Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi will travel to...
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Janet Jackson's Super Bowl 'wardrobe malfunction' may hit supreme court
Eight years after Justin Timberlake's bodice-ripper, the FCC is appealing a lower court's decision to toss out indecency fineThe department of justice is asking the US supreme court to review the...
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Breivik's ideology is all too familiar: that's our big problem | Suzanne Moore
It's comforting to view the killer's horror of multiculturalism as deranged – but it is just an extreme example of what many feelI know well the line on Anders Breivik and his incoherent ramblings: a...
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US quick to condemn 'reprehensible' photos of troops with Afghan corpses
President Obama orders investigation and defence secretary makes several apologies as US officials try to limit damageUS military and civilian leaders have attempted to douse the latest scandal...
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Bob Beckel swears on-air on Fox News – video
Fox News contributor and former Democratic strategist Bob Beckel uses the F-word in a heated debate with Tea Party activist Jennifer Stefano during a live broadcast on the right-wing news broadcaster Fox
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The inconvenient truth the Pentagon would prefer we didn't see | Ross Caputi
It is not photographs of US soldiers mocking Afghan insurgents' bodies that incites violence, but the plain fact of US occupationThe LA Times released new photos Wednesday of US soldiers posing in a...
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George Zimmerman judge removes herself from trial over possible conflict
Defence lawyer had requested circuit judge Jessica Recksiedler step aside because her husband works with CNN legal analystThe judge presiding over the case of an unarmed Florida teenager's shooting...
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Anglo American urged to act over tuberculosis claims
FTSE100 company facing legal action as South African workers say inadequate safety measures in place in mining operationsA South African miner who claims he contracted tuberculosis as a result of...
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