Queen to miss Commonwealth meeting for first time since 1973
Prince Charles will represent Queen at Sri Lanka meeting as palace reviews amount of long-haul travel taken by monarchThe Queen will miss the Commonwealth heads of government meeting for the first time...
View ArticleNigel Lawson calls for UK to leave the EU - reaction: Politics live blog
Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including reaction to Nigel Lawson's call for Britain to leave the EUAndrew Sparrow
View ArticleGoodluck Jonathan's report card for Nigeria? Must try harder | Remi Adekoya
After three years as president, the economy is booming but Jonathan's record on helping his people is poorNigerians had no rational reason to believe their lives would improve after Goodluck Jonathan...
View ArticleIranian website editor arrested
The editor of an Iranian news website, Ali Ghazali, was arrested on Sunday after carrying a report claiming that a tape recording existed of the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, discussing vote rigging...
View ArticleSyria crisis: Kerry and Putin hold talks - live updates
Follow live updates as US Secretary of State John Kerry meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for talks on the crisis in SyriaMatthew Weaver
View ArticleBiggest German terror trial for decades begins
Beate Zschäpe is accused of involvement in multiple racially motivated murders, nail bombings and armed robberiesGermany's largest ever neo-Nazi trial opened in Munich on Monday, as the surviving...
View ArticleUS casts doubt on Syrian rebels sarin claim
Kerry to meet Putin to discuss growing crisis as UN investigators row back on panellist's commentsThe US and United Nations have cast doubt on claims by Carla del Ponte that Syrian rebel forces might...
View ArticleThree missing women found alive a decade on in Cleveland, Ohio
Three brothers arrested after Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, as well as a six-year-old, were found in a house a few miles from where they disappearedThree women who went missing...
View ArticleAhmadinejad looks to make confidant his successor as Iran race starts
Outgoing president's aide likely to stand in election but opposition Green Movement's leaders still under house arrestIran started its six-week search for a new president on Tuesday as candidates began...
View ArticleIMF team needs to see UK economy's clouds, not the sunbeam
Christine Lagarde's inspectors should see that Britain is crying out for investment, not more austerityDear IMF officials,Don't be blinded by a single ray of sunshine. Britain may have avoided a...
View ArticleCleveland abductions: three women found after frantic 911 call – press...
Authorities in Ohio hold a press conference about the three women who were found in Cleveland after missing for yearsTom McCarthy
View ArticleQueen's speech to feature new curbs on migrants from EU
Political centrepiece of government's third Commons agenda will be promise to restrict EU migrants' access to welfareDavid Cameron will today make his most concerted effort yet to prevent a stampede of...
View ArticleStephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel
Physicist pulls out of conference hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of PalestiniansProfessor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of a...
View ArticleTUC warns of 'lost decade' as IMF arrives to scrutinise UK economy
Officials to investigate economic outlook as unions argue austerity policies are causing UK to lag behind in global recoveryInternational Monetary Fund officials arrive in London today for their annual...
View ArticleImran Khan's accident triggers wave of sympathy in Pakistan
Injured candidate appeals to voters from hospital bed – though his PTI party is not expected to win majority in electionImran Khan, a leading candidate in this week's general election in Pakistan, was...
View ArticleMark Sanford beats Elizabeth Colbert Busch in South Carolina special election...
Disgraced former Republican governor Mark Sanford defeats Elizabeth Colbert Busch in vacant South Carolina congressional seatJim Newell
View ArticleMark Sanford wins South Carolina election in dramatic political comeback
Disgraced former Republican governor rises again to claim seat in House, beating Democrat candidate Elizabeth Colbert BuschThe former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford has staged one of the most...
View ArticleFuel tanker explodes outside Mexico City killing and injuring dozens
Most victims were in houses feet away from six lanes of heavy traffic on arterial road into capital where trailer blew upAn explosion caused by a fuel tanker accident on a main road on the outskirts of...
View ArticlePakistan elections: Imran Khan and the charge of the lights-out brigade
Energy shortages, inflation and insecurity are concentrating the minds of a generation about to vote for the first time. But do the country's young people really have the will to recast its...
View ArticleNepal struggles to contain human trafficking problem | Rachel Williams
As trafficking laws go unenforced, Nepalese women and children are being coerced into the sex and construction industriesRaji speaks softly, her small, cross-legged frame fitting neatly into a plastic...
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