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Civil liberties groups file lawsuit over NYPD surveillance of Muslims
New York police accused of religious profiling and suspicion-less surveillance of Muslim New Yorkers in years since 9/11Asad "Ace" Dandie, a 20-year-old college student and Brooklyn native, thought...
View ArticleBrazil mass protests and Erdem Gunduz's silent stand in Turkey: the best news...
The Guardian's award-winning picture team rounds up the most eye-catching images of the dayMee-Lai StoneJoanna RuckNicholas Pritchard
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Assange will not leave Ecuador embassy even if Sweden drops extradition bid
WikiLeaks founder fears moves are under way by the US to prosecute him on espionage charges over cable releasesJulian Assange will not leave Ecuador's embassy even if Sweden drops its extradition bid...
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Tax avoidance clampdown wins support of G8 leaders
G8 members persuaded to sign Lough Erne declaration, a commitment to end corporate tax evasion and clear up tax havensHe swam in the lough. He poured praise on his G8 partners.And at a closing blustery...
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Vladimir Putin may allow Assad to go if power vacuum in Syria is avoided
British hopeful that peace talks to end civil war can go ahead, but divided Syrian opposition remains a big stumbling blockThe Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is willing to see the removal of the...
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William Hague: 14-pint-sized politico
The foreign secretary boasted to MPs of influencing his family's voting aged 14. One can only feel sorry for his parentsWilliam Hague was asked about the referendum on our membership of the EU. Gary...
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Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown suspended after failing drug test
• Two-time Olympic 200m champion failed test in May• Case is ongoing, says Jamaican Athletics' governing bodyJamaica's twice Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown was suspended by her...
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Google challenges Fisa court's gag orders on reporting user surveillance
Tech firm US petitions government to allow it to publish number of user accounts affected by secretive court's requestsGoogle has called on the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to...
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Rupert Murdoch splits empire but keeps faith in tomorrow's newspapers
Mogul to hive off entertainment and publishing assets but believes newspaper businesses will emerge stronger than everRupert Murdoch's News Corporation will be split in half on Wednesday as the mogul...
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Afghanistan peace talks: no surrender behind the Taliban's white flowers
Behind a surprise invitation to talk lie years of violence, scepticism and suspicionThe banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are...
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Osborne and Cameron at G8: stylewatch
Forget tax and Syria, smart-casual is tough for these guys. Cameron demonstrated yet again that for him sleeves rolled up and no jacket semaphores getting down to businessNot for the first time, the...
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Montreal interim mayor resigns as city reels from corruption scandals
Michael Applebaum faces 14 charges, including defrauding the government and corruption in municipal affairsThe mayor of Montreal resigned on Tuesday, amid corruption scandals ripping through Canada's...
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Syria and the G8: lost in translation
Mr Putin's sympathy is with the despots, not their people. It should therefore come as no surprise that the G8 leaders had difficulty arriving at even the blandest of statements on SyriaShortly after...
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A million more people join the ranks of the global super-rich
One third of the new wealthiest are from Asia, according to Royal Bank of Canada researchA million more people joined the ranks of the global super-rich last year, almost a third of them in Asia, as...
View ArticleSteve Bell on the Afghanistan peace talks – cartoon
Kabul hit by massive explosion as US decides to begin direct peace talks with TalibanSteve Bell
View ArticleRand Paul accuses James Clapper of lying to Congress over NSA suveillance
GOP senator cites Clapper's testimony in March that US does 'not wittingly' collect data on American's communicationsSpencer Ackerman
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Amanda Knox: judges list reasons for rerun
Court finds fault with the case on which the Perugia court based its decision Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito walk freeThe decision by an Italian appeals court to acquit Amanda Knox and Raffaele...
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'Let doctors in to Guantánamo', say medics
Open letter to Barack Obama urges him to allow detainees access to independent medical examinationsMore than 150 doctors, including from the US, have signed an open letter to Barack Obama, urging him...
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Fisa court oversight: a look inside a secret and empty process | Glenn Greenwald
Obama and other NSA defenders insist there are robust limitations on surveillance but the documents show otherwiseSince we began began publishing stories about the NSA's massive domestic spying...
View ArticleIf Julia Gillard isn't safe from the Liberals' sexism, who will be? | Van Badham
Van Badham: If Abbott and his comrades are prepared to reduce Gillard to a "witch" with a "big red box", how do you really think they'll treat the rest of us?Van Badham
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