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Asylum seeker policy: first family groups sent to Nauru

Seven Iranian families arrive on the Pacific island as part of the federal government's hardline resettlement planThe federal government has begun sending families to Nauru as part of its hardline...

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Runner's face: beauty advice rears its ugly head

Fear of gauntness takes women away from the joys of running and back into prescriptive ideas about how they should lookUntil just a few weeks ago, I had no idea that "runner's face" existed. Of course...

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Of course compulsory voting is a good thing | Van Badham

Van Badham: I'm not here to tell you to vote, I'm here to remind you that other people can't. Compulsory voting is the guarantee of voter freedom, not its oppositeVan Badham

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Election 2013: second Rudd v Abbott debate build-up – politics live blog

Kevin Rudd goes into the second debate in Brisbane very much the underdog he wanted voters to believe he was at the start of the campaignPaul Owen

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Damascus attack and fracking protests continue: the best news pictures of the...

The Guardian's award-winning picture team rounds up the most eye-catching imagesMee-Lai Stone

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NSA illegally collected thousands of emails before Fisa court halted program

Declassified court ruling from 2011 found government 'disclosed substantial misrepresentation' of data collection programThe secretive court that oversees surveillance programs found in 2011 that the...

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Edward Snowden and the NSA files – timeline

What has happened to NSA whistleblower who leaked files to Guardian since he decided to reveal his identity to the world and began his asylum battle20 May Edward Snowden, an employee of defence...

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Hugh Muir's diary

And there's hardly a warm welcome in store for him• The question of who knew what and when over the detention of David Miranda grows ever more curious. We know the Americans, PM Dave and deputy PM Nick...

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Fukushima: the global fallout | Editorial

The disaster in 2011 has profoundly shaken confidence in the future of nuclear power – a situation exacerbated by rising costsThe long, dark shadow cast by the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi...

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Man injured trying to stop theft of life-sized David Hasselhoff signs

Former Baywatch star expresses shock after shop assistant is critically injured attempting to apprehend thievesDavid Hasselhoff has expressed dismay after learning that a shop assistant was critically...

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Threatened species: we do have time to turn it around if there is political...

By Threatened Species Day 2016, around when the next federal election will be due, we could be starting to restore our unique Australian wildlife heritage7 September is looming as a day of reckoning...

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Claude Debussy celebrated in Google doodle

To mark 151st anniversary of French composer's birth, an animation is set to Clair de lune, one of his best-known piecesGoogle is celebrating the 151st anniversary of the birth of French composer...

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Coalition battle looms over anti-terror laws after Greenwald partner detention

Theresa May rejects Nick Clegg move for revisions to Terrorism Act 2000 as David Miranda seeks data injunctionNick Clegg and Theresa May are heading for a confrontation over the future of Britain's...

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Bradley Manning's defence attorney reacts to 35 year sentence – video

David Coombs, Manning's lawyer, reacts to the 35-year sentence given to his client for passing classified military documents to WikiLeaks

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Syria conflict: chemical weapons blamed as hundreds reported killed

Death toll claimed to be as high as 1,400 as Syrian government admits launching offensive but denies using chemical weaponsHundreds of people are believed to have been killed in an apparent gas attack...

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Hosni Mubarak to be freed from prison

Ex-president to be put under house arrest, prime minister's office says, as EU suspends weapons exports in wake of killingsHosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, is to be freed after a Cairo...

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Whistleblowing: a list of documents the Australian people deserve to see |...

Antony Loewenstein: Governments routinely over-classify information and beyond the reach of the public. It's our duty to uncover what the state wants to keep secret – and here are some places to...

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Shooting victim Chris Lane’s last moments caught on 911 emergency call

Driver Joyce Smith sees Australian and calls for help: 'He just fell over in a ditch and he's got blood on him,' she tells operator

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Woman dies after losing arm in Hawaii shark attack

German snorkeller was pulled from surf off Maui after being bitten and spent a week on life supportA German woman who lost her arm in a shark attack has died, one week after she was bitten while...

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Bo Xilai trial opens in China

Former high-ranked Communist politician destined to be found guilty of corruption as regime seeks to close sensational chapterThe trial of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai began on Thursday...

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