Egypt protests and demonstrations continue for third day – in pictures
Violence escalates on the streets in the wake of the military coup and ousting of elected Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi
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George Zimmerman loses bid for early acquittal in Trayvon Martin case
Defence team had argued that prosecutors failed to prove Zimmerman's guilt and were 'grasping at straws'George Zimmerman's lawyers opened their formal courtroom defence of the neighbourhood watch...
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From the archive, 6 July 1955: A subdued Perón: political truce sought
The president of Argentina used a broadcast to exonerate the political opposition of guilt in the recent uprisingsIn a broadcast to-day which observers here considered to be the most conciliatory of...
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Edward Snowden offered asylum by Venezuelan president
Nicolás Maduro says whistleblower has 'told the truth in spirit of rebellion', while Nicaragua also weighs asylum offerVenezuelan president Nicolás Maduro said on Friday he had decided to offer asylum...
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Archbishop of Canterbury uses first address to warn of sexual revolution
Justin Welby says recent same-sex marriage debate shows how the church risks appearing out-of-step with changing societyThe archbishop of Canterbury has used his first General Synod address to warn the...
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Sahar Delijani: 'I had to tell my family's story of the Iranian executions'
Sahar Delijani's parents were jailed and her uncle was killed by Iran's Islamic Republic in the 1980s. She tells how the painful episode became her first novel, Children of the Jacaranda TreeSahar...
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Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business by...
David Thomson on the cynicism and gush of the hard-bitten Hollywood producer Lynda ObstLynda Obst is a 63-year-old movie producer who continues to pay her dues as a writer and cockeyed optimist. She...
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In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge – review
Leo Robson on an intricate saga of family life in east GermanyEugen Ruge's novel about East Berlin, a prizewinner and bestseller in Germany and translated into English by Anthea Bell, is unlikely to...
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Sex selection has the potential to skew future generations | Kishwar Desai
Those calling for the British ban on sex selection of children born through IVF to be lifted should look at India and think againAs we consider whether the British ban on sex selection of children born...
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Venezuela and Nicaragua offer asylum to Edward Snowden
President Maduro offers to protect NSA whistleblower 'from persecution by the empire' and rejects US extradition requestVenezuela and Nicaragua have offered asylum to Edward Snowden, the US...
View ArticleMali's griottes: 'We sing for peace; without peace, there can be no...
Praise singers, poets, political advisers, historians – in Mali, as elsewhere in Africa, griottes play multiple roles
View ArticleUS request for extradition of Edward Snowden - full text
A copy of the request sent to Venezuela to extradite the NSA whistleblower to the US should he arrive in the South American country
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Yemen capital rocked by fatal blast
Roadside bomb in Sana'a centre of opposition to ousted leader Ali Abdullah Saleh kills three soldiers and injures two othersA roadside bomb in Yemen's capital Sana'a has killed three soldiers and...
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Obama and Cameron could act on Guantánamo if they really wanted to | Kate Allen
Our PM is not as powerless about Guantánamo's future as he claims. He could start by insisting on Shaker Aamer's releaseNews that hunger-striking detainees at Guantánamo Bay will be force-fed during...
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Nigerian students burned alive in extremist attack
One teacher and 29 pupils killed in pre-dawn arson and gun attack on Yobe boarding school by Islamic extremistsIslamic extremists have killed 29 students and one teacher in an attack on a boarding...
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Are they going to take my child away? | Kristina Chew
Being a parent is a hard job, all the more so when you child is severely disabled"Are they going to take him away?" were the first words my husband said after learning that public school and social...
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Retired police chief admits authorising Stephen Lawrence witness recording
Ex-deputy assistant commissioner John Grieve says Duwayne Brooks meeting taped 'to protect integrity of witness evidence'A retired senior Metropolitan police officer has admitted authorising secret...
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Lack of transparency means tainted justice for Bradley Manning | Alexa O'Brien
Military obfuscation and compliant media make for an Orwellian trial of managed misinformation against the WikiLeaks sourceThe lack of contemporaneous access to court documents has caused irreparable...
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Pope John Paul II to be made a saint
Pope approves second miracle to allow canonisation of John Paul, but John XXIII will become saint without requirementMourners who cried "santo subito" ("saint immediately") at the funeral of Pope John...
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Putin critic attacks 'feudal' power
Alexey Navalny uses closing remarks of embezzlement case against him to condemn Vladimir Putin's governmentRussia's top opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, has vowed to destroy the "feudal system of...
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