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Bride-to-be feared dead as two missing after Hudson River boat crash
Friday night accident involved Stingray boat and construction barge for Tappan Zee Bridge replacement projectA female body was pulled from the Hudson River on Saturday, near where a bride-to-be and her...
View ArticleThe Central African Republic: a country abandoned to its fate - video
The Central African Republic has descended into a state of anarchy following a violent rebel takeover. Reports from the capital reveal a complete breakdown in law, characterised by waves of lootings...
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Raped, plundered, ignored: central Africa state where only killers thrive
The Central African Republic is all but lawless, with just 200 police to guard 4.6m people from rebel gangs who attack women, kill men and recruit children at will. Despite repeated warnings, the...
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The Arab spring is being stifled by the force of arms | Nabila Ramdani
Middle East: there is no clear condemnation from the international community of political change delivered at gunpointThe grotesque murders of ordinary Egyptians by their own military says everything...
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The church must be an activist: fight for the poor and expose the corrupt |...
Justin Welby is taking on payday lenders. This should be just the start of a movement for the common goodWhen I put myself forward for ordination within the Church of England (about 25 years ago), the...
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BMA urges Obama to stop doctors force-feeding Guantánamo prisoners
Global drug companies are told practice is 'a gross violation of internationally accepted standards of medical ethics'The British Medical Association has written to Barack Obama urging him to...
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Egypt: 'The injuries were very precise … the snipers were shooting to kill'
The crush of dead and injured in the field hospitals was so intense that exhausted doctors struggled to copeBy early Saturday afternoon, there were so many corpses arriving at Cairo's Zeinhom mortuary...
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Twitter under fire after bank note campaigner is target of rape threats
Pressure grows on the social media site as users ask: why should 'trolls' be allowed to tweet what they like?Twitter is facing a barrage of criticism after a journalist and feminist blogger who...
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Peter Doig: the art of the foreign
The Scots think of Peter Doig as their own, but 'elsewhere' has always been the subject of his vivid paintings. We speak to him as he prepares for a new show at the Scottish National GalleryIn...
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What now for Britain's new-wave feminists – after page 3 and £10 notes?
As the suffragettes are remembered 100 years on, a new generation of women are using social media to target British institutions they believe need to changeThe women who gathered in London on Saturday...
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Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is
The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network and that US firms' cloud services cannot be trustedRepeat after me: Edward Snowden is...
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Robert Mugabe defies age and rivals to aim for election victory and...
Staying power of Africa's oldest leader dismays rivals who fear western powers are ready to end his pariah statusOne was entering his eighth week in hospital, still in a critical condition. The other...
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Bar stabbing forces Crete to consider repelling the latest British invasion
The killing of a 19-year-old has prompted many islanders to ask whether the pursuit of holidaymakers' money has gone too farThere is nothing like a dead man, lying cold and still on a hospital bed, to...
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Admit it. You love cheap clothes. And you don't care about child slave labour
Despite a series of revelations for the Observer about the brutal conditions in garment factories, companies, western consumers and India are still complicit in turning a blind eyeUntil three years ago...
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In the Himalayas, Nepali villagers hunt down poachers to help save the tiger
Criminal gangs are hunting the big cats to sell their organs and bones to the Chinese medicine industry. But an alliance between a western charity and local Nepalis is turning the tables, producing a...
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Curiosity rover's descent to Mars – the story so far
In August 2012, Nasa succeeded in landing the Curiosity rover safely on the surface of Mars. We look back to an incredible feat, talk to the team involved and consider the ramifications of Curiosity's...
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New to nature no 110: Sandalolitha boucheti
A species of mushroom coral discovered in Vanuatu demonstrates the extreme marine biodiversity of the Pacific's 'coral triangle'The family Fungiidae are commonly known as mushroom corals because of a...
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The Complete Humphrey Jennings Volume Three: A Diary for Timothy
(Humphrey Jennings, 1944-51, BFI, E)Jennings was killed filming in Greece in 1950 aged 43, bringing to a premature end the career of one of the major figures in British cultural life of the 1930s and...
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Million-selling reformed killer Tony Anthony exposed as serial fantasist
Star speaker for Evangelical Alliance exposed after online campaign by critics raises alarmIt was the autobiography that gave hope to hundreds of thousands and warmed the hearts of...
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Kim Philby, the Observer connection and the establishment world of spies
Fifty years after Kim Philby fled to Moscow while working for the Observer, new light is being shed on the links that united a clubland elite with a taste for secret service adventuresOne of the...
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