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Privatised justice is no justice at all | Nina Power
Chris Grayling's radical changes to legal aid could mean being represented by the same company that jails youImagine the following scenario: you're on a protest with thousands of others about something...
View ArticleReturn to Rwanda - audio slideshow
Two decades after the genocide, Chris McGreal returns to Kibuye, Rwanda's worst-hit town, to meet the few Tutsis who survived and some of the killers they have to live with as neighboursJim PowellChris...
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Pakistani elections: more than a dozen killed by bomb blast in Karachi
Bombs at ANP party offices and at Peshawar polling station also leaves scores wounded following Taliban attacks in runup to voteAt least 18 people have been killed in bomb attacks and gun batttles in...
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David Cameron's working-class adviser 'pushed from No 10 by old Etonians'
Shaun Bailey lost job as adviser on youth, crime and race after exclusion by PM's privately educated colleagues, say friendsThe prime minister's only black working-class adviser has been pushed out of...
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Ariel Castro case: death penalty hitch
Experts say Ohio laws governing fetal homicides could be open to constitutional challenge as prosecutors look to press chargesOhio prosecutors will face a struggle to press death penalty charges...
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Mugabe: from hero to villain and back …
Reappraisal of Zimbabwean president coincides with plausible plotline of win in 'credible' elections leading to lifting of sanctionsHe has been a schoolteacher, freedom fighter and political prisoner....
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Bangladesh survivor Reshma Begum: I never dreamed I'd see daylight again
Rescue workers had given up hope of finding anyone else alive in the rubble of the Rana Plaza. Then they heard a faint tappingFirst came the collapse. At 9am, as the day's work started, a ripping,...
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Eurovision's spiritual home rolls out the pink carpet for week of kitsch,...
100,000 fans expected in Malmö, the Swedish city hosting the contest, ready to party to the local soundtrack of schlager musicAs Joe Nilsson, owner of the leading gay club in the Swedish city of Malmö,...
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Medicine's big new battleground: does mental illness really exist?
The latest edition of DSM, the influential American dictionary of psychiatry, says that shyness in children, depression after bereavement, even internet addiction can be classified as mental disorders....
View ArticleCharles Correa: pioneer of Indian architecture – in pictures
Charles Correa has spent half a century designing buildings that avoid air conditioning and heating and instead work with the elements…
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How to spot a murderer's brain
Do your genes, rather than upbringing, determine whether you will become a criminal? Adrian Raine believed so – and breaking that taboo put him on collision course with the world of scienceIn 1987,...
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From the Observer archive, 15 May 1983: the jangling return of Liberace – and...
The money-obsessed piano showman mixes the glam with the ham on stage at Wembley with the London PhilharmonicSequins sparkled, electric bulbs on the candelabra twinkled like ships at night; spotlights...
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New to nature No 103: Tinkerbella nana
An impossibly small species of fairyfly owes its name to two characters in Peter PanThe family Mymaridae includes more than 1,400 species of diminutive insects called fairyflies. They are not flies at...
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20 ways to keep your internet identity safe from hackers
Do you use the same password for all websites? Do you overshare on Facebook? If so, you're a target for cybercriminals – whose computer scams are costing Britain £27bn a year. We asked experts for...
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Vehicle 19 – review
Reading on mobile? See the trailer hereNewly released American convict Michael Woods (Paul Walker) breaks parole, flees to Johannesburg to make things up with his girlfriend, is given the key to the...
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Village at the End of the World – review
Perhaps best known for her screen version of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane, British film-maker Sarah Gavron's Anglo-Danish documentary turns a warm eye on four seasons, most of them inhospitably cold,...
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Economic malpractice: time for a moral crusade against tax scams | Observer...
Tax is a collective obligation to build a decent society. Too many companies are avoiding their civic responsibilitiesAfrica is on the crest of a global commodities boom. Mozambique and Tanzania are...
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Climate change 'will make hundreds of millions homeless'
Carbon dioxide levels indicate rise in temperatures that could lead agriculture to fail on entire continentsIt is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their...
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Charles Correa: India's greatest architect
Ahead of a retrospective show at the RIBA, our critic meets the man whose buildings were designed to beat the elementsThe "tube house" in Ahmedabad is a model of contemporary sustainable design. It is...
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David Cameron's head of strategy sues Australian minister for libel
Lynton Crosby takes Australia's defence procurment minister, Mike Kelly, to court over tweetThe prime minister's head of strategy, Lynton Crosby, is "heading down the path of a famous defamation case"...
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