Syria: Britain to seek UN security council approval – live updates
• David Cameron says UK to put forward resolution on Wednesday• UN inspectors resume investigation into alleged chemical attack• Israel passed Syrian government intercepts to USShiv Malik
View ArticleWhy I love … the first five minutes of Dead or Alive
Takashi Miike's Yakuza thriller opens with a barrage of sleaze featuring cocaine, stripping and guns. It's brilliantWarning: contains explicit imagesWhy we love … the cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's...
View ArticleElection 2013: Kevin Rudd v Tony Abbott, the third leaders' debate – live
Live coverage as the leaders square off in a 'people's forum' in Rooty Hill for their third debateKatharine Murphy
View ArticleElection debate: Rudd more direct at last but Abbott never wavers
Coalition leader makes a clever change of tack as Labor's campaign drifts all over the mapKevin Rudd did OK in the immediate battle of last night's debate – he was less tetchy and his answers were more...
View ArticlePeru drugs suspect could get two years for guilty plea, says lawyer
Michaella McCollum Connolly's lawyer Peter Madden says system geared towards people 'recognising their guilt'The lawyer of the Northern Ireland woman arrested at Lima airport with £1.5m worth of...
View ArticleTanzania's child gold miners risking injury and abuse to support families
Thousands of children as young as eight toiling in hazardous pits despite stringent child labour laws, warns Human Rights WatchThousands of children, some as young as eight, work in licensed and...
View ArticleUS envoy to ask North Korea for American prisoner's release
US special envoy for human rights to visit Pyongyang after fears grow for health of 45-year-old tour operator Kenneth BaeA senior US envoy who is due to travel to North Korea later this week has said...
View Article50th anniversary of Martin Luther King speech and Syria crisis: the best news...
The Guardian's award-winning picture team rounds up the most eye-catching imagesMee-Lai StoneRoger Tooth
View ArticlePilbara's indigenous people win cultural rights in iron ore heartland
Court rules against WA government after 15-year native title dispute with the Banjima peopleA 15-year native title battle in Western Australia has ended with the federal court recognising the cultural...
View ArticleNintendo 2DS: is this the end of 3D gaming?
It's claimed that the cheaper console will help cash-strapped buyers – but it could be seen as as an admission of failureResponses have been mixed to say the very least. TechCrunch called it "hideous",...
View ArticleBushfire authorities urged to revise safety advice
Researchers conclude that houses need to be much further away from the forest than the official recommendationA study of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires has found the risk zone between houses and...
View ArticleSyrian father and son reunited after chemical weapons attack - video
Amateur footage allegedly shows a Syrian father reunited with his young son who he believed had died in a chemical weapons attack
View ArticleIndian Mujahideen leader Yasin Bhatkal captured by security forces
One of India's most wanted Islamist terrorists arrested after international manhunt ends on border with NepalOne of India's most wanted Islamists has been arrested in a security forces operation on the...
View ArticleForeign investment makes explosive entry into election campaign
Joel Fitzgibbon scrambles to clarify Labor's policy after Kevin Rudd's surprise comments during final debateThe issue of foreign investment has made an explosive entry to the election campaign, with...
View ArticleThe rules of art: crowdsourcing a new set | Patrick Doorly
The ICA's new digital forum, Art Rules, seeks to challenge the long-standing notion that great artists are above rulesThe ICA recently launched Art Rules, a new digital forum on which people can post...
View ArticleCampaign diary: the not-so-big questions
Kevin Rudd and Therese Rein turn the tables on their interviewers as Tony Abbott passes the ballQuotes of the daySo many quotes. So little time. Some questions faced by the Rudds on Thursday ...Kevin...
View ArticleBalcombe residents complain about continuing fracking protests
Residents write letter deriding 'relentless propaganda' from locals and environmentalists opposed to fracking for shale gasResidents of the West Sussex village at the heart of a battle over whether the...
View ArticleSupporting local movements to strengthen civil society organisations
Development is done best when it emerges from within local communities – it is here that the NGOs need to give a helping handArthur Larok runs an anti-corruption newsletter Black Monday in Uganda. He...
View ArticleGreek finance minister: we don't need another bailout
Greek finance minister Yannis Stournaras doused speculation that the debt-stricken country was in dire need of a third bailout - 'we have no additional need for money'If the eurozone is as strong as...
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