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Brazil: 8,000 police deployed in Rio
Hundreds of thousands demonstrate across the country despite U-turn over transport fare increases which sparked the unrestBrazil's biggest protests in two decades intensified on Thursday as 300,000...
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Bolshoi theatre: moving on from scandal
Bolshoi leadership announce plans for new season and refuse to discuss shocks including acid attack on ballet directorFive top officials from the Bolshoi theatre sat dutifully in a row on Thursday and...
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US-Taliban Qatar meeting cancelled
Afghan government anger at opening of Taliban office in Qatar leads US to suspend plans to attend talksA fresh effort to end Afghanistan's 12-year-old war looked in disarray on Thursday after a...
View ArticleWatch UAVs in action at Cannes Lions 2013 - video
Chris Thomann of Team Black Sheep shows off unmanned aerial vehicles – just don't mention drones...John PlunkettAndy GallagherIrene Baqué
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GCHQ revelations: mastery of the internet will mean mastery of everyone |...
If you think loss of privacy is a price worth paying for security, ask what a totally monitored future would look like'This is for everyone" was the message that flashed around the Olympic Stadium, as...
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This is the Latino community's time – and it's about more than immigration |...
Latinos are America's largest minority, but we lag behind in education, political and business leadershipIf Paul Revere were alive today, he might be spreading the alarm that "The Latinos are coming!...
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Cocaine worth £20m found on yacht on Isles of Scilly
Around 200kg of cocaine discovered after sailor plunges to his death from top of mast to quayside in St Mary's harbourCocaine worth £20m has been found on a yacht from which a sailor plunged to his...
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If you're 'true to yourself', you might end up finding no real self to be...
It's ironic that as My Way is the most popular song choice at funerals, it's obviously lots of other people's way tooEarlier this week, Zoe Williams did a sterling job debunking the latest nonsense...
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner flies first UK passengers to Menorca
Thomson Airways flight takes off with first 290 fare-paying passengers after delays caused by battery problems and production difficultiesThe first UK passengers have finally taken a flight on Boeing's...
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Erasing your digital footprint: burner phones, Bitcoins and metal wallets
From mobile phones to CCTV, not to mention social media and the internet, becoming digitally invisible takes some doingOh, the naivety … On Tuesday night, I thought the first step to going off-grid,...
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Gas riches and ambitious leader put Qatar on diplomatic map
Tiny Gulf state grows from regional bit-player to global heavyweight with hosting of Taliban 'embassy' and Syria talksThe global frenzy over the opening of the Taliban's office-cum-unofficial embassy...
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Egypt broadcasts male-only soap for Ramadan
Coffee Shop creator says show is true reflection of Egyptian society, but critics say it points to rise in conservatismOn the set of Coffee Shop, a new Egyptian soap opera to be televised next month,...
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Let's check James Comey's Bush years record before he becomes FBI director |...
Comey is lionised in DC for one challenge over liberties. Yet he backed waterboarding, wire-tapping and indefinite detentionIt had the air of Hollywood. On the night of 10 March 2004, James Comey, the...
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Prince William's Indian DNA piques interest, not innuendo. That's progress |...
Some Anglo-Indian people used to go to extraordinary, even tragic lengths to hide their heritage. Reactions to the story about Prince William's Indian roots are much more relaxedA taint, a tint, a...
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Civil liberties: the world at their fingertips | Editorial
The less debate about surveillance, the happier the government and intelligence agencies. But there has to be debateIn June 2008, the head of the US National Security Agency, Lt Gen Keith Alexander,...
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House Farm Bill fail gives Congress a chance to redeem itself | Heidi Moore
Good riddance to this grotesque law that combined cuts to food assistance for the poor with lavish subsidies for agribusinessTo understand why the House Farm Bill failed, and why we should wish it good...
View ArticleRemarkable, and never before seen, images of gunfire in the Vietnam war - in...
This stunning set of images taken in April 1970 during the Vietnam war shows the moment US soldiers targeted a Viet Cong sniper. For 43 years, James Speed Hensinger kept his pictures under wraps –...
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Canadian floods prompt evacuation of entire downtown Calgary area
About 75,000 people evacuated, authorities say, with more floods across southern Alberta provinceFlooding forced the western Canadian city of Calgary to order the evacuation of the entire downtown area...
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How Australia's Barunga festival keeps alive the Aboriginal spirit
Barunga, in Australia's Northern Territory, is the country's largest Aboriginal festival. Revived this year, it keeps alive the traditions of a people who are still coming to terms with tourism"My...
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Country diary: Llanystumdwy: The Dwyfor is surely one of the loveliest of...
Llanystumdwy: In the black ooze, flags are flowering – vibrant yellow against a faint lilac in the stems of last year's reedsA friendly young sheepdog, made idle by the sun, yawns and scratches in the...
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