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Letters: Labour recycles the Trident debate
My parliamentary colleagues and other members of the Labour party urging a return to a policy of unilateral disarmament (Letters, 21 June) do so for laudable reasons, but they are mistaken. While...
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From memory to sexuality, the digital age is changing us completely |...
I once thought the world of the internet would be the same as before, only faster. In fact, it's altering every corner of human lifeIn this future, the past has been forgotten. Not entirely: there are...
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Fifa's gleaming edifice in danger of being engulfed by Brazil's tidal protest...
$13bn cost of staging 2014 World Cup finals has tipped scales in a country long inured to corruption and malpracticeEarlier this year, the Fifa general secretary Jérôme Valcke said something that gave...
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Primary-school class sizes in England surge as effects of baby boom are felt
Education department's school census shows 2,299 classes of five to seven-year-olds were above official guideline of 30 pupilsThe demographic strain on England's schools has been revealed by official...
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Enron's Jeffrey Skilling sees jail sentence reduced to 14 years
Former chief executive could be released before the end of the decade after agreement with prosecutors and forfeiting $40mThe former chief executive of Enron, jailed for his role in the collapse of the...
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Bill Clinton on NSA: Americans need to be on guard for abuses of power by US
Former president tells Scottish audience there needs to be accountability and transparency when surveillance is usedFormer US president Bill Clinton has said Americans need to be "on guard for abuses"...
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Brazil: feel-bad factor | Editorial
The placards may be hard on the country's leaders, but the political class as a whole amply merits the rage it is now reapingWithin the space of a few weeks, two emerging nations have been rocked by...
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Pussy Riot ask Britons to flood Russia with letters of support
Two members of punk collective on world tour to raise awareness for plight of colleagues jailed in remote prison campsMembers of the anti-Kremlin punk collective Pussy Riot have called on people to...
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US files criminal charges against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden
Charges include theft of government property and unauthorised communication of national defence informationThe US has filed charges against National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden...
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Brazil protests: president hears call for change but warns against violence
Dilma Rousseff promises new plan for public transport and oil cash for education while urging public to embrace World CupThe Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, has insisted in a televised address to...
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Russia-Germany row over war loot
Angela Merkel no longer speaking at St Petersburg opening amid rift over plan to refer to German work looted by Red ArmyThe grand opening of an exhibition of Bronze Age treasures in St Petersburg on...
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Tony Blair: 100th trip as Middle East envoy
Ex-PM accused of pro-Israel bias, but others point to achievements in boosting Palestinian economyTony Blair was the opening act at this week's glittering gala celebration in Jerusalem, paying tribute...
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Brazil's protests raise fears for World Cup as a million people take to the...
Football becomes focus of furious outcry against corruption, police brutality, dire public services, high prices and street crimeFootball supporters fleeing rubber bullets, roads into stadiums blocked...
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Turkish police use water cannon to disperse remembrance gathering
Erdoğan blames foreign-led conspiracy for Turkey and Brazil unrest as protests reignite in Taksim SquareTurkish police used water cannon to disperse thousands who had gathered in Istanbul's Taksim...
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Escaped British killer captured in Australia after 15 years on run
Simon Hennessey, jailed as a teenager for brutal killing of his elderly aunt, arrested in Queensland resort over credit-card fraudA fugitive killer who mutilated his aunt as a teenager and later...
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Vatican agrees to inquiry into Cardinal O'Brien's sexual conduct
Dismay among Britain's Catholics as church says cardinal's successor must lead investigationThe Vatican has finally acceded to demands for a formal inquiry into Britain's most senior Catholic cleric,...
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On the trail of Michael Mastro: how to flee the law when you are 87
Michael Mastro was a Seattle property magnate worth $350m. Then the market crashed. In a tale described as Cocoon meets Catch Me If You Can, he and his wife filled their Range Rover with jewels, packed...
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How to cope as a washed-up former millionaire mogul? Here's my advice…
The case of Asil Nadir shows once again that the entitlement that comes with great wealth often manages to outlast itAsil Nadir, inventor of the nadir, is ill in Belmarsh prison. The former millionaire...
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New to nature No 107: Typhochlaena costae
Little is known about a new species of tarantula found in Brazil – but it is jaw-droppingly gorgeousThere is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Harvard professor and mycologist Roland Thaxter once gave...
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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God; This is 40; Movie 43; F*ck for Forest; Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters; Broken CityIn the wake of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, film-maker Alex...
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