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Malaysia re-elects National Front coalition
Najib Razak's governing coalition extends 56-year rule after winning election opinion polls suggested would be tightMalaysia's governing coalition has extended its 56-year rule, winning what opinion...
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CNN's Howard Kurtz issues on-camera mea culpa for Jason Collins column | Matt...
Reliable Sources host who lost Daily Beast column for reaction to NBA star coming out issues all-encompassing apologyIf your job involves holding the US media to account when it comes up short, then be...
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So, why are we so loyal to a president who is not loyal to us? | Gary Younge
Kevin Johnson was pilloried for suggesting Obama has not been good for African Americans. But his question was a good oneBack when affirmative action was white, educational institutions were created...
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Uncle of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev visits funeral home
Pre-burial rituals carried out as FBI continues investigations at Tsarnaev family's Cambridge homeThe uncle of the suspected Boston marathon bomber who was killed in a firefight with police has visited...
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Obama dares Ohio State graduates to break cycle of cynicism over future
President tells graduates they are the key to overcoming political dysfunction in WashingtonA year to the day after kicking off his victorious re-election campaign there, President Barack Obama...
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Letters: Benefits of price rises and bloody marys
The Institute of Alcohol Studies claims evidence from Canada shows minimum unit pricing for alcohol brings significant health benefits (Report, 1 May). Using their own estimates of population...
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William Hague rejects calls for shift in Downing Street tactics over Ukip threat
Foreign secretary dismisses calls for an immediate EU referendum, as one senior MP accuses him of failing on strategyWilliam Hague was at loggerheads with old allies on the Tory right on Sunday night...
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Syria: civil war turns regional crisis | Editorial
What had been covert has been overtly declared. The regional map is suddenly crisscrossed with red linesThe sequence of events was unmistakable, if not its trajectory. Hassan Nasrallah confirmed for...
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Kenya: Evil and the empire | Editorial
For elderly Kenyans variously beaten, castrated and detained in Britain's gulag, there can be no adequate compensationFor a long time the denial was total, with even archival staff told that the...
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Violence mars superclásico again as River Plate and Boca Juniors draw
• Boca Juniors 1-1 River PlateThe crowd disturbances that have so often marred the superclásico encounters between Argentinian heavyweights River Plate and Boca Juniors came to the fore again on Sunday...
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Spanish blockade of Gibraltar dismays British: from the archive, 6 May 1968:
Ongoing dispute over sovereignty sees Spain and UK clash again over GibraltarSpain's intensification of the land blockade of Gibraltar is regarded in Whitehall as a retrograde and dangerous step. A...
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China's barbaric one-child policy
For more than 30 years, China has upheld a strict one-child policy. And despite the country's growing prosperity, novelist Ma Jian discovered that ruthless squads still brutally enforce the law with...
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The Frankfurt School, part 7: what's left? | Peter Thompson
Habermas and Honneth represent both a break with the Frankfurt School and continuity around the theme of reificationAlthough I have concentrated very clearly on the big names of classical Frankfurt...
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Utah soccer referee dies a week after being punched by teenager
Police will consider additional charges as Ricardo Portillo, 46, dies after being punched for showing a yellow cardA soccer referee who slipped into a coma after being punched by a teenage player...
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In defence of the 1970s: not just Stuart Hall, but Germaine Greer too | Linda...
A decade now remembered for its dirty old men was also the one in which courageous young women called them outI have a strong memory of queueing to see a movie at the university film club in around...
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Bangladesh protests: at least 10 killed
Violence erupts in Dhaka as security forces clash with Islamic hardliners calling for anti-blasphemy law, reports sayAt least 10 people have been killed in clashes in Bangladesh between police and...
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Kenyan Mau Mau victims in talks with UK
Payments to thousands who were tortured during 1950s insurgency could open door for other victims of British colonial ruleThe British government is negotiating payments to thousands of Kenyans who were...
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Syrian regime accuses Israel of declaring war
Israel's night raid on 'missiles destined for Hezbollah' deepens fears of conflict spreading beyond Syrian border across regionThe Syrian government said that Israeli air strikes against military...
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Lauryn Hill jailed for evading tax on $1m earnings
Hip-hop star sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty last year to failing to pay taxesLauryn Hill, the Grammy award-winning US hip-hop artist, has been sentenced to three months in...
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British economy would be better off outside EU, says Nigel Lawson
Tory peer and former chancellor claims union has become 'bureaucratic monstrosity' from which the UK should break freeOpponents of British membership of the European Union gained their most prestigious...
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