Quantcast
Channel: World news | The Guardian
Browsing all 66421 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Eyewitness: Aviemore, Scotland

Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Why 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Election 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Election 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Peru 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Tanzania'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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

US 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

50th 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Pilbara'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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Nintendo 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Bushfire 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Syrian 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Indian 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Foreign 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Campaign 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Balcombe 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Supporting 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Greek 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...

View Article
Browsing all 66421 articles
Browse latest View live