Ginger Pride Walk - in pictures
All Hail! The red, orange and pale!Redheads take to the streets of Edinburgh to stand up to prejudice against people with ginger hairJosy Forsdike
View ArticleUS mulling arrest of former JP Morgan employees in 'London Whale' case
Sources say Javier Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout could be extradited for alleged role in masking $6.2bn lossesUS authorities are considering arresting two former JP Morgan Chase & Co employees for...
View ArticleWalls: Travels Along the Barricades by Marcello Di Cintio – review
A tour of the world's most disputed border areas becomes a forceful study in human sufferingTo wall is human and, if the story of the Garden of Eden is true, to exclude is divine. Since the beginning...
View ArticleForced marriage ruins the lives of too many girls, so we're working to end it...
The summer sees an increase in girls from the UK being forced into marriage abroad. This can't just be fixed at our bordersFor most of us, the summer holidays are something to look forward to; a time...
View ArticleRudd v Abbott: the debate in full – transcript
The full text of tonight's first leaders' debate between Labor's Kevin Rudd and the Coalition's Tony Abbott
View ArticleWhere was Christine Milne? The debate we never had
The Greens leader was a notable absentee at the National Press Club. Here she outlines the issues she says her rivals missedThe economyWith all the talk about the economy neither Kevin Rudd nor Tony...
View ArticleAbbott and Rudd – what does their debate body language tell us?
Expert David Alssema examines the body language of tonight's encounter between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott
View ArticleKevin Rudd pledges same-sex marriage bill in first 100 days if re-elected
Prime minister says he would give Labor MPs conscience vote on issue in final minutes of debate focused on economic policyKevin Rudd has used the first election debate to promise legislation on...
View ArticleRacism doesn't explain why Obama's approval rating is falling | Harry J Enten
Racism likely cost Obama votes in 2012, but his latest polling drop is among non-southern whites and nonwhitesDoes being black cost President Obama support among white voters? We all know that there's...
View ArticleTony Abbott's office denies purchasing Twitter followers after numbers spike
Liberal party is working with social media platform to investigate rise in fake accountsThe social media election campaign is heating up as Tony Abbott's office confirmed it is investigating a large...
View ArticleBaghdad bombers 'enemies of Islam', says US
State department describes as cowardly the weekend attacks during Eid celebrations that killed 57 and injured more than 150The United States has condemned the latest bombings in Baghdad that killed...
View ArticleAccentuate the postive: Abbott and Rudd learn the art of the upbeat attack
Both parties are running essentially negative campaigns but they're framing them in the most positive way imaginableThose focus groups must really be telling the political strategists that voters are...
View ArticleAnthony Albanese attacks Murdoch's News Corp over Labor coverage
Deputy prime minister says he has spoken to 'embarrassed' News Corp Australia journalists who have been instructed to run negative coverage of Labor
View ArticleKashmir conflict ebbs as new wave of militant emerges
Younger, better-educated militants are being drawn to the separatist cause but violence and support is waning after a decades-long insurgency in the disputed territoryThe picture – showing a...
View ArticleRita Reys
Dutch singer known as 'Europe's first lady of jazz'The Dutch singer Rita Reys, who has died aged 88, was perhaps too committed a cabaret artist in her later years to sustain the international jazz...
View ArticleYawns heard around the nation as leaders spout belief, and plenty of it
Short, tightly scripted answers do not a great debate make. This first encounter was the political equivalent of a hospital mealElection debate sketch: yawns across the nationTony Abbott believes in...
View ArticleKidnapped teen found safe in Idaho while suspect killed
FBI agents rescued 16-year-old Hannah Anderson from her apparent kidnapper at a campsite deep in the Idaho wildernessA harrowing weeklong search for a missing California teenager ended Saturday when...
View ArticleIraq car bomb attacks leave many dead - video
Residents pick through the rubble after a series of car bombs in mainly Shia areas of in and around Baghdad have left many fatalities
View ArticleLand of Second Chances: The Impossible Rise of Rwanda's Cycling Team by Tim...
Tim Lewis's account of the creation of the Rwandan cycling team is far from the usual rags-to-riches taleWhen Rwandan Adrien Niyonshuti crossed the line in the men's mountain bike race at the London...
View ArticleThe NSA is turning the internet into a total surveillance system | Alexander...
Now we know all Americans' international email is searched and saved, we can see how far the 'collect it all' mission has goneAnother burst of sunlight permeated the National Security Agency's black...
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