Outgoing IRS chief Steven Miller testifies on tax-targeting scandal – live
Miller, who was fired on Wednesday, joins Treasury inspector general at hearing on IRS's 'practice of discriminating'
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Ukip: the battle for Britain
They worship Churchill, Thatcher and the right to smoke, they hate gay marriage and Europe: is Ukip the lunatic fringe or the shape of things to come? We meet Britain's newest political tribeSusan...
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Beleaguered Obama looks to fight back as critics ask: is he a lame duck already?
IRS, AP, Benghazi … this past week, the president has been forced to confront a series of damaging scandals that could derail his second term before it has really begunIt is not a comparison that many...
View ArticleGuardian Books podcast: Science, religion and the paranormal
Why, in the age of Richard Dawkins's God Delusion, has one of our leading writers on genetics devoted himself to a book investigating the Bible's scientific credentials? And what explanations can...
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Chinese told to behave when overseas
China's deputy PM says tourists spitting, speaking loudly and other 'uncivilised behaviour' is damaging country's reputationWhile tour operators and department stores from New York to Paris court...
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Teresa Forcades – a nun on a mission
Spanish Benedictine nun is emerging as one of the most outspoken – and atypical – leaders of southern Europe's far leftThe speedometer on Teresa Forcades' battered silver Peugeot saloon shows 130kmph,...
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CIA chief visits Israel for Syria talks
Unannounced meeting with PM Netanyahu and senior Israeli figures comes amid concerns over Syrian weaponsThe CIA chief has made an unexpected visit to Israel to meet senior political and military...
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Saudi Arabian woman in historic Mount Everest climb
Raha Moharrak, who was among a party of 64 climbers, becomes first female from the country to scale the mountainA Saudi Arabian woman has become the first woman from her country to climb Mount...
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Jo Swinson: new voice in the old system
The ageing denizens of Westminster are choking on the causes Jo Swinson champions, from the fight against airbrushing to parents sharing maternity leave. Eva Wiseman heads for the House to meet a woman...
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Gunmen kill anti-terror policeman and family as Iraq violence continues
Eight policemen abducted on highway to Jordan and Syria, following three days of violence that killed 130 peopleA string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday while gunmen abducted...
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Observer writer wins Ryszard Kapuściński award 2013
Ed Vulliamy won the prize for his book Amexica: War Along the Borderline, which documents the US-Mexican drug warsEd Vulliamy, the Observer writer, has won the 2013 Kapuściński award in Poland for his...
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Breaking the taboo about drugs
In an open letter, former Latin American leaders call for legal regulation to help undermine organised crimeAfter more than four decades of a failed war on drugs, calls for a change in strategy are...
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US Airways jet forced to make 'belly' landing at Newark airport
Investigation launched after pilot makes successful emergency landing as plane's landing gear fails to deployA US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International...
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Connecticut commuter train crash leaves 72 injured and chaos at scene
Officials express amazement at lack of fatalities from collision as northeast corridor set for lengthy disruptionOfficials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two...
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Why do men make such hard work of cooking?
Women, who still do the lion's share of the work at home, want kitchen shortcuts – but men who write cookbooks love onerous tasksIt was Michael Pollan who gave us the unbeatable 21st-century maxim:...
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Western leaders study 'gamechanging' report on global drugs trade
Review by Organisation of American States on illicit drugs 'could mark beginning of the end' of prohibitionEuropean governments and the Obama administration are this weekend studying a "gamechanging"...
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Europe and the US should heed Latin America on drugs
It's time to engage with Latin America and pursue alternatives to the present policyYou wouldn't know it from listening to UK officials but a game-changing debate is taking place in the Americas about...
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Ukraine gay pride marchers ready to defy violence
Organisers in Kiev determined to go ahead after cancellation of last year's event, despite rise in homophobic attacksEfforts are going ahead in Ukraine's capital Kiev to stage a gay pride march next...
View ArticleTouching heaven: Everest - in pictures
Extraordinary photographs of the successful 1953 British expedition to conquer Everest
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Everest: the ascent
Sixty years ago, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made their final climb to the summit of Mount Everest. Jan Morris, who reported the climbers' feat, introduces an extraordinary new collection of...
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