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Christine Lagarde not charged in embezzlement investigation IMF chief placed under status of 'supervised witness' after two days of questioning by judges over Tapie compensation deal
 

Oscar Pistorius: the end of the rainbow Oscar Pistorius was more than a national hero. His success came to symbolise South Africa's triumph over apartheid. Then he killed his girlfriend. Jonny Steinberg explores how his fall left the nation's self-image in tatters
 

Toronto mayor Rob Ford denies smoking crack cocaine Mayor dismisses video purportedly showing him smoking the drug as 'nonsense' a day after firing longtime chief of staff
 

Rokia Traore: 'My vision for Mali' - video To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the African Union, we asked the singer Rokia Traoré to share her thoughts on Pan-Africanism, the relationship between the continent and the west and her hopes for the future of her country, Mali. What is your vision for Africa over the next 50 years?
 

Citi Bikes land in New York: what to expect from the long-awaited scheme A veteran of London's bike-share scheme debunks the myths surrounding Citi Bikes as New Yorkers gear up for launch
 

Statue commemorates wartime lovers separated for 60 years Italian prisoner of war and Ukrainian forced labourer were separated after falling in love during the second world war
 

Two passengers arrested after RAF jets escort diverted Pakistan plane British men held on suspicion of endangering aircraft after Manchester-bound flight is diverted to Stansted following dispute
 

Hezbollah's role in Syrian conflict ushers new reality for its supporters Once denied by its leaders, the Shia militant group's involvement in Syria is now a badge of honour for families burying their dead
 

Petraeus biographer expresses remorse for 'harm' caused by affair Paula Broadwell speaks publicly for the first time about the extramarital affair that led to the CIA director's resignation
 

Italian culture minister's comments about food leaves chefs simmering Ilaria Borletti Buitoni chastises Italian chefs for trying too hard to be fashionable and copying the French
 

Croatian president urges Britain to remain in the EU Ivo Josipovic says British exit would have negative impact on trade bloc, as Croatia prepares to become 28th member state
 

Obama drone oversight proposal prompts concern over 'kill courts' Human rights groups wary after president asks Congress to establish special court or board to authorise legal drone action
 

Niger suicide bombings reported to be work of Mokhtar Belmokhtar Statement attributed to jihadist leader behind raid on Algerian gas plant claims responsibility for Thursday's bomb attacks
 

Syrian government agrees to attend Geneva conference, says ally Russia Assad regime agrees 'in principle' to conflict resolution initiative as Syrian opposition comes under pressure to take part as well
 

China reports rise in humans encountering wild Siberian tigers Villagers in rural Hunchun have mixed feelings about initiative's initial success in boosting population of endangered big cat
 

Church of England leaders propose female bishops by 2015 Bishops' proposals, backed by archbishops, offer a nearly complete victory for female clergy and their supporters
 

Everest: tourism and climate change provide new challenges As the 60th anniversary of conquest looms, climbers and environmentalists fear new strains on the terrain and its people
 

RAF jets escort diverted Pakistani passenger plane Typhoon jet escorts flight diverted from Manchester to Stansted after concerns about disruptive passenger
 

Two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict slipping away, says Hague British foreign secretary says there is no 'plan B' and warns of consequences of failure of US mission to revive peace process
 

Africa quiz - test your knowledge To celebrate Africa day on the anniversary of the birth of the Organisation of African Unity, 25 May 1963, we have put together this quiz. No Googling now, says David Smith
 

Barack Obama says heckler's drone views should be heard Medea Benjamin's opinions on drones and Guantánamo 'worth paying attention to', president tells audience after interruptions
 

Wartime sex slaves cancel meeting with controversial Japanese mayor Move by Korean former 'comfort women' comes as row erupts over column asserting atomic bombs as 'divine punishment'
 

Mugabes under the spotlight – Zimbabwe's first family filmed at home Soft-focus documentary catches Robert Mugabe over lunch with his wife and children, talking of love, family, politics and Tony Blair
 

Inspire magazine: the self-help manual for al-Qaida terrorists Ian Black: Al-Qaida's slick and sinister magazine for jihadis, Inspire, suggests using a vehicle to mow down a target – which is apparently what happened in Woolwich
 

Eyewitness: Oklahoma Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
 

Syria agrees to take part in peace conference, Russia claims Russia claims the Assad regime has agreed in principle to attend next month's peace conference in Geneva while the opposition consider whether it will turn up
 

Manila less than thrilled at Dan Brown's Inferno City chairman lodges protest with author over his description of Philippines capital as 'the gates of hell' in latest novel
 

Obama speech: 'Perpetual war will prove self-defeating' – live updates President expected to sharply curtail the unmanned killing programme and discuss crisis at Guantánamo Bay prison
 

George Zimmerman lawyers release data from Trayvon Martin's cellphone Photos and texts appear to be defence team attempt to discredit killed 17-year-old ahead of Zimmerman's murder trial next month
 

Obama orders review of press freedom guidelines in wake of recent scandals Move aimed at placating media groups who've been seething since actions against the AP and Fox News were disclosed
 

The War on Drugs: the Observer debate – as it happened Live coverage of a panel discussion on drug laws with David Simon, writer of The Wire, documentary maker Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Seifert, the director of the documentary Cocaine Unwrapped and others at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. The debate was chaired by Observer editor John Mulholland
 

Obama details drone policy in speech outlining counter-terrorism doctrine Increased oversight designed to bring killing programme out of legal shadows as president defends use of strikes in the past
 

Glencore and Trafigura 'may have supplied Iran's nuclear programme' UN report says that if links with Iranian company are confirmed they could form breach of international sanctions
 

Guantánamo detainee release to be restarted as part of Obama plan President outlines steps for transfer of detainees from controversial Cuban detention centre in national security speech
 

Noaa predicts wildly active hurricane season out of Atlantic and Caribbean Scientists say three to six major hurricanes will hit US, some in areas far beyond those typically associated with extreme storms
 

John Kerry makes unscheduled shawarma sandwich stop in West Bank US secretary of state darted into fast-food restaurant Samer's in Ramallah for a shawarma sandwich and dessert
 

John Kerry acknowledges failures over Israeli-Palestinian peace process US secretary of state begins fourth recent visit to region by saying he hopes to surprise people by laying a path to peace
 

Syria crisis: battle for Qusair – Monday 20 May 2013
 

Shooting of gay man in New York was a hate crime, police say
 

Leading Pakistan politician Zahra Shahid Hussain killed outside home
 

Everest: the ascent
 

Ukraine gay pride marchers ready to defy violence
 

Western leaders study 'gamechanging' report on global drugs trade
 

Bobby Jindal calls for jailing of IRS officials behind Tea Party targeting
 

Bashar al-Assad issues defiant message: 'I'm here to stay'
 

Federal judge blocks Arkansas 12-week abortion ban
 

Three months on, a cardinal is banished but his church is still in denial
 

Italians unveil long-lost tomb medallion of Scottish MP
 

IRS tax-targeting scandal forces resignation of second senior official
 

Berlin signals opposition to EU policing and justice opt-out by Britain
 

Internal Revenue Service acting commissioner Steve Miller fired – as it happened
 

Deutsche Bank and IFC accused of bankrolling Vietnam firms' land grabs
 

Ang Ladlad party brings beauty parlours and gay pageants out to vote in Philippines
 

Kumamon leads Japan's mascot craze, but don't mention Pluto-kun
 

Eurovision's spiritual home rolls out the pink carpet for week of kitsch, camp fun
 

Former Guatemalan dictator convicted of genocide and jailed for 80 years
 

Pakistani women defy clerics and custom in elections
 

Nigeria's love of champagne takes sales growth to second highest in world
 

Boris Berezovsky buried in low-key ceremony
 

Ohio abductions: end of decade of torment for victims and families
 

Sylvia Browne: fans lash out at 'psychic' over false Ohio abduction prediction
 

Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel
 

Cleveland abductions: three women found after frantic 911 call – press conference live
 

Ohio abductions: how false leads and dashed hopes broke one mother's heart
 

Cleveland abductions: three women missing for a decade found alive in Ohio
 

Italian women rise to positions of power under new prime minister
 

China arrests 900 in fake meat scandal
 

Syria crisis: US admits arming rebels is 'an option' - Friday 3 May
 

Hungary warned its democracy could be put under international scrutiny
 

Boston Marathon bombing injury toll rises to 264
 

Syria crisis: Aleppo bishops kidnapped - Tuesday 23 April
 

Boston bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev captured – as it happened
 

Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev have shamed all Chechens, family says
 

Chechnya and the Boston bombing: link, if established, would be unprecedented
 

'Pressure cooker packed with metal' may have been at heart of Boston bombs
 

Syria crisis: truce in Aleppo - Wednesday 17 April 2013
 

Syria conflict: ‘shelling’ in Damascus suburbs – Monday 15 April
 

Afghanistan: high expectations of record opium crop
 

Marco Rubio: Jay-Z and Beyoncé's trip to Cuba was 'hypocritical'
 

Ireland to hold gay marriage referendum
 

Guantánamo Bay's last UK detainee: 'people are dying here' in hunger strike
 

North Korea risks further isolation with missile launch, John Kerry warns
 

Sailors get that sinking feeling after Fleet Week falls victim to budget cuts
 

Pervez Musharraf admits permitting 'a few' US drone strikes in Pakistan
 

A Burial Party, 1865 - picture of the day
 

Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley leaders launch immigration reform group
 

Fears for China's shuanggui detainees after Wenzhou official dies
 

The Turkish 'power ship' keeping the lights on in Lebanon
 

Egypt's president to host Twitter sessions to connect with his people
 

Court battle looms over Nelson Mandela businesses
 

Obama budget proposal includes cuts to Social Security, Medicare-as it happened
 

Syria rejects extended chemical weapons probe - Tuesday 9 April
 

Ten children and US diplomat killed in weekend of Afghanistan violence
 

Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Cuban holiday under scrutiny from US Republicans
 

Book of Mormon not a problem for the Latter-Day Saints
 

Scottish Catholic church's handling of abuse is a sham, says former insider
 

North Korea readies missile launch as fears of a covert cyberwar grow
 

Rendition report still unpublished nine months after completion
 

Hundreds of New York fast food workers go on strike over pay
 

Authorities hunt for gang members over Colorado prisons chief's death
 

In North Korea's sights: Baengnyeong islanders prepare for the worst
 

Assets worth €1.3bn seized from Italian businessman 'with mafia links'
 

Mark Sanford to South Carolina rival: Stephen Colbert's fame won't help you
 

Who are the Muslim Brotherhood?
 

French reality TV under scrutiny after deaths in Cambodia
 

Florida father kills family dog to retrieve son's bitten-off finger
 

Final twist to tale of Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cells helped the fight against cancer
 

Cyprus crisis: fears reach across 'dead zone' of divided island
 

Iranian Ahwazi Arabs on hunger strike over death sentences
 

Supreme court takes up Doma on second day of gay marriage hearings
 

Gay marriage hearing draws thousands to rally on steps of US supreme court
 

North Korea rockets and artillery 'target' US bases
 

Fine Gael split over threesome advice
 

UN majority demands stronger treaty to stop unregulated arms sales
 

John Kerry 'on same page' as Karzai over peace talks with Taliban
 

US faces $6bn bill to ship equipment home from Afghanistan
 

Snow and slush blanket much of US prompting many to ask: where's spring?
 

Syria crisis: rebel commander targeted in car bombing - Monday 25 March 2013
 

Boris Berezovsky was an 'evil genius', says Russia's state-owned media
 

Musharraf returns to Pakistan to lukewarm reception and Taliban threats
 

Snow and floods keep UK spring on hold
 

Singapore uses 'modern fairytales' to warn women of declining fertility
 

Rise of the naked female warriors
 

France's budget minister Cahuzac resigns to fight claims of 'fiscal fraud'
 

Judge releases Somali journalist jailed for interviewing alleged rape victim
 

Pope Francis's critics in Argentina say document suggests he betrayed priests
 

Steubenville rape trial forces depressed Ohio town to look inward for answers
 

Activist 'shocked' at conviction for yelling at David Cameron
 

Rwanda's first female pilot takes to the skies at 24
 

US drone strikes in Pakistan 'carried out without government's consent'
 

Papal conclave: anti-mafia police raid offices in diocese of frontrunner
 

Choose your own pope – with our interactive Pontifficator
 

Obama denies sending mixed signals over Congress charm offensive
 

British hostage 'likely to have been killed' in Nigeria, says William Hague
 

Government faces winter fuel payments for Irish pensioners
 

North Korea's flamboyant threats are not as wild as they seem
 

Pentagon investigating link between US military and torture centres in Iraq
 

Murder of baby found in stolen SUV prompts soul searching in China
 

Egypt's Jon Stewart? Al Bernameg is a political satire to rival The Daily Show
 

Police brutality alleged at Sydney Gay Mardi Gras
 

Syrian jets bomb rebel-seized Raqqa - Tuesday 5 March 2013
 

Helmut Kohl is kept 'like a prisoner' by his new wife, sons claim
 

US faces huge job losses as Obama orders $85bn cuts
 

Accident rate on most passenger planes falls to record low
 

Italian election deadlock – Sicilian defence and other checkered moves
 

Egypt balloon crash kills tourists
 

Boehner on sequester: 'Mr. President, you got your tax increase' – live
 

Syria crisis: foreign minister offers talks with rebels - Monday 25 February 2013
 

Oscar Pistorius leaves court after posting bail - as it happened
 

Can a text from ancient Persia break down mistrust between enemies?
 

Italian elections: right, left or back to square one
 

Italy votes: home-again migrant hits out at business 'troubles'
 

Oscar Pistorius: prosecution and defence set out rival claims - as it happened
 

Children prepare for their day in court: 'They're being shown they have a voice'
 

Royal Navy sends warship to Libya to showcase defence equipment
 

Georgia lawyers rush to save 'mentally retarded' death row inmate
 

French driver trapped for an hour in speeding 125mph car with no brakes
 

Obama announces voting rights commission to tackle broken system
 

Charlie Morgan, campaigner against Defense of Marriage Act, dies aged 48
 

Aung San Suu Kyi offers to mediate Burma peace talks
 

North Korea stages nuclear test in defiance of bans
 

Anti-abortion feelings declining – poll
 

Pope Benedict resigns: sex abuse survivors hope move eases prosecution
 

Pope Benedict's age and declining strength quells conspiracy theories
 

Navy Seal who allegedly shot Bin Laden says US military has abandoned him
 

Pope Benedict XVI announces resignation – as it happened
 

US north-east shuts down as huge winter snow storm
 

Does Obama's 'single-digit' civilian death claim stand up to scrutiny?
 

Michael Moore asks citizens to stand up to Obama on civil liberties issue
 

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejects chance of direct talks with US
 

European leaders inch towards deal on EU budget
 

Egypt tensions rise as footage emerges of police beating protester
 

Obama compromises with religious leaders over contraception coverage
 

Mass march in Port Said as anger grows on anniversary of Egypt revolution
 

US military steps up mental health care for troops in Afghanistan
 

How Hay-on-Wye is helping Mali
 

Iranian journalists arrested in raids on newspapers
 

David Cameron calls for 'global response' after Algerian hostage crisis
 

Air cadets rewrite their oath to remove God from pledge
 

Obama inauguration: the president has gun law and even climate change in his sights
 

US confirms one American hostage killed in Algeria attack
 

France pledges to fight until Mali's Islamist rebels are wiped out
 

White House Death Star petition is a no-go
 

French troops arrive in Mali to stem rebel advance
 

Newtown gun organisation pushes ahead with Las Vegas 'Shot Show'
 

Jack Lew nomination hits snag as Republican vows 'aggressive' opposition
 

Hidden casualties of Afghan war: nomadic farmers adopt more settled life
 

US and North Korea ties wobble again under weight of mutual suspicion
 

Syria conflict: UN says 60,000 dead
 

Delhi gang-rape accused face rape and murder charges
 

Euros discarded as impoverished Greeks resort to bartering
 

The budgetary black holes that lie beyond America's fiscal cliff
 

Can Afghan troops hold off the Taliban after Nato withdraws?
 

Fiscal cliff deal delayed by hostility from hardline conservative Republicans
 

Israeli-Arab politician who was on Gaza protest flotilla can stand for re-election
 

Call for end to anti-drug aid for regimes with death penalty
 

2013 will be the same old story for business – and still no happy ending
 

India gang rape: six men charged with murder
 

Worst ideas of 2012: Republicans thinking out loud
 

Fiscal cliff: Obama holds summit with congressional leaders
 

US Treasury warns of 'extraordinary measures' amid fiscal cliff deadlock
 

Senior Syrian official in US and co-operating with intelligence agencies
 

Obama lands in Hawaii after urging Congress to 'cool off' on fiscal cliff
 

Tijuana leads the way as Mexico heads for the big league
 

If Britain left the EU, would it really thrive like Norway?
 

Newtown school shooting: victims' names revealed – as it happened
 

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Newtown gunman kills 20 children in elementary school shooting
 

New round of Iran nuclear talks 'imminent'
 

Israel suspected over Iran nuclear programme inquiry leaks
 

US supreme court agrees to take up two gay marriage cases
 

Cuba cracks down on 'vulgar' reggaeton music
 

Bristol University Christian Union performs U-turn on female speakers
 

Republicans offer fiscal cliff proposal that avoids raising taxes on wealthy
 

Dewani murder case: extradition hearing postponed until next summer
 

Pakistan 'walking the talk' on peace in Afghanistan
 

Unicorn lair 'discovered' in North Korea
 

Italian steelworks accused over cancers wins reprieve
 

Chinese activist's nephew goes on trial at short notice
 

Bradley Manning: how keeping himself sane was taken as proof of madness
 

Obama intensifies call for fiscal cliff plan as GOP starts to break ranks
 

Syria conflict: Damascus car bombs - Wednesday 28 November 2012
 

Carme Chacón: 'I am Catalan, I am Spanish, I am European'
 

Government support for arms exports challenged by MPs
 

Susan Rice faces renewed criticism from Republican senators – as it happened
 

Voters deal blow to Catalan president's hopes for independence referendum
 

Catalans start voting in election that could lead to independence
 

Lure of jobs and money threatens one of Spain's last wild beaches with destruction
 

Riot police use tear gas as Thai protesters demand overthrow of prime minister
 

Anne the elephant's owner found guilty of causing suffering
 

Mali under pressure to give separatists autonomy in fight against al-Qaida
 

Women bishops: Church of England votes no - as it happened
 

Rise in Afghan poppy farming fuelled by high opium prices
 

Waiting for Depardieu: how one modest village acquired French celebrity status
 

Israel and Gaza conflict: Truce broken during Egyptian PM's visit - as it happened
 

Obama reassures Sandy victims in tour of Staten Island devastation
 

Venice 'high water' floods 70% of city
 

US election 2012: the inside track on Obama's victory and Romney's defeat | Tom McCarthy
 

Republican right weeps over Obama's victory – then begins internal civil war
 

CIA director David Petraeus resigns over 'unacceptable' extramarital affair
 

US military warned to prepare for consequences of climate change
 

Security guard shot dead at Swedish PM's official residence
 

Election day: US voters choose between Obama and Romney – as it happened
 

Ohio's souls go to the polls as churchgoers heed call on 'historic' day
 

Mahmoud Abbas outrages Palestinian refugees by waiving his right to return
 

Florida's Latino politics shaken up as Puerto Ricans shift the ground
 

New York Daily News endorses Mitt Romney for president
 

Asaro Mudmen in Papua New Guinea - picture of the day
 

Florida Republicans accuse Romney of 'really poor job' with black voters
 

Barack Obama holds edge as campaign hits frenetic final stretch
 

Campaigns mobilise lawyers for legal ground game in election's swing states
 

NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg endorses Barack Obama - US politics live
 

Cameron stance could force Britain out of EU, Clegg claims
 

US university accused of 'Sovietisation' of Catholic intellectual life
 

East coast life heads towards normality after Sandy but devastation still felt
 

New Jersey calls in National Guard to evacuate Hoboken Sandy flood victims
 

Obama laments 'heartbreaking' storm as Sandy leaves US east coast daunted
 

Sandy batters US east coast
 

UN unveils plans to eliminate child labour by 2020
 

Wen Jiabao's family deny 'hidden riches' report
 

UK aid to Iran's war on drugs has led to rise in hangings, UN warns
 

Boost for Obama as US economic growth beat forecasts
 

Qatari emir's visit to Gaza is a boost for Hamas
 

Final US presidential debate: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on foreign policy – as it happened
 

Fidel Castro attacks 'imperialist media' for reporting rumours about his health
 

Champion's mission to Iran to get women surfing
 

A year after Gaddafi's death, rebel hero is abandoning hope for peace in Libya
 

Security chief dies in Beirut blast - Friday 19 October 2012
 

Anti-Syrian security official among dead in Beirut car bomb attack
 

Brazil's women politicians march on – but the pace is still too slow for many
 

Donald Trump's organisation attacks film-maker as 'misinformed jackass'
 

Rwandan minister is leader of Congo rebels, UN says
 

Gary McKinnon feels 'set free' after US extradition decision
 

US presidential debate: Obama and Romney set for round two – as it happened
 

Malala Yousafzai arrives at special gunshot unit in British hospital
 

Syria and Turkey in tit-for-tat flight bans - Sunday 14 October 2012
 

San Francisco Bachelor Party rescued after wine-tasting boat sinks
 

Why a Bible belt conservative spent a year pretending to be gay
 

Why are road deaths in the UK on the rise again?
 

Europe's Nobel peace prize: bad timing all round | Michael White
 

Nobel peace prize awarded to the European Union
 

Biden lifts Democrat hopes with forceful VP debate performance
 

Nobel peace prize winner to be revealed
 

Martha Raddatz: the real winner of the vice-presidential debate
 

US vice-presidential debate: Joe Biden and Paul Ryan – as it happened
 

Joe Biden and Paul Ryan: the vice-presidential debate in gifs – live
 

Spain resists pressure for bailout as IMF calls for firm action
 

Syria crisis: US sends troops to Jordan - Wednesday 10 October 2012
 

Mitt Romney: arm the Syrian rebels
 

Biden hopes vice-presidential debate with Ryan helps regain lost ground
 

Jeremy Hunt backs 12-week legal limit on abortions
 

Iranian currency crisis threatens Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rule
 

Drugs raids target websites selling illegal medicines
 

Russia accuses al-Qaida of 'forest jihad' in Europe
 

Syria crisis: Aleppo bomb attacks - Wednesday 3 October 2012
 

Younge America: 'Obamacare means my child has health insurance' - video
 

Barack Obama and his wild, drug-taking roomie
 

Bosnia's National Museum is latest victim of political funding crisis
 

Women kidnapped in Ecuador: we feared being killed
 

White House defends UN ambassador over response to Benghazi attack
 

Romney and Obama curtail debate expectations ahead of first meeting
 

South Africa's mines: gulf between employees above and below ground
 

National Voter Registration Day under way across the US – as it happened
 

Syrian jets bomb Aleppo as envoy says Bashar al-Assad rejects reforms
 

Libyan protesters force Islamist militia out of Benghazi
 

Battle in Benghazi as crowds attack militia blamed for US diplomat's death
 

Romney releases 2011 tax return along with summaries of filings since 1990
 

Oktoberfest beer prices take the froth off the fun
 

Egypt issues arrest warrants over anti-Islam film
 

French Alps shootings: British cyclist describes scene of murders
 

Thailand's Moken 'sea gypsies' under threat - video
 

Moken nomads leave behind their 'sea gypsy' life for a modern existence
 

Eurozone crisis: Spain refuses bailout terms
 

Rwandans fear serial killer is at large after murder of 15 women
 

Alps shootings: how French press buried the story
 

French Alps shootings: detectives head to UK
 

Syria: refugee crisis - Tuesday 4 September 2012
 

Bradley Manning's lawyer demands sentence cut
 

Undocumented Latinos end protest tour of south at Democratic convention
 

Obama wants to see Citizens United supreme court ruling overturned
 

Desmond Tutu quits seminar in protest over presence of Tony Blair
 

Rob Portman to play Obama for Mitt Romney's debate preparation
 

Mitt Romney defends Massachusetts healthcare record in attack on Obama
 

Gorky Park: the jewel in Soviet Moscow's crown shines again
 

Afua Hirsch: Our parents left Africa – now we are coming home
 

Syria crisis: France backs no-fly zone - Friday 24 August 2012
 

Robert Mugabe enjoys popularity surge among Zimbabwe's voters
 

Pussy Riot members face threat of violence in Russian jail, lawyer warns
 

Paul Ryan's pro-life views in spotlight after Todd Akin's rape comments
 

Somalia's first parliament since 1991 inaugurated in Mogadishu
 

Striking South African miners defy Lonmin ultimatum
 

Obama calls for funds to stop teacher layoffs as student-to-teacher ratios rise
 

Romney: Taxes in last decade 'never less than 13%' – the day in US politics
 

Anni Dewani murder: court hears from third accomplice as trial begins
 

Lebanon aghast as return of sectarian kidnappings raises spectre of civil war
 

Paul Ryan heads west as GOP convention slate unveiled – the day in US politics
 

Boy abducted in Qatar sends 'get me home' plea to David Cameron
 

Storming British embassy in Iran was not right, says supreme leader
 

China lambasts US over South China Sea row
 

War for Aleppo: battle rages in city that will determine fate of Syria
 

Syria crisis: UN general assembly backs new resolution – Friday 3 August 2012
 

Syria crisis: Kofi Annan resigns as peace envoy
 

Asma al-Assad and that Vogue piece: take two!
 

Mitt Romney to rekindle cold war spirit with speech in Poland attacking Russia
 

Poll finds gun owners in favour of tighter restrictions on buying weapons
 

Bashar al-Assad: fight or flight?
 

Obama campaign hits Romney hard on questions over Bain Capital tenure
 

Nine dead in Mont Blanc avalanche
 

Syria's ambassador to Iraq defects in major blow to regime
 

Florida university president resigns over drum major's hazing death
 

Libyan elections: moderate Mahmoud Jibril poised for victory
 

François Hollande keeps election promise of raising taxes for wealthiest
 

Cyprus under creditor scrutiny as it begins EU presidency
 

Chicago to get hyper-connected under Rahm Emanuel's grand Wi-Fi plan
 

François Hollande struggles to rebrand austerity as French budget looms
 

Supreme court ruling: Medicaid expansion becomes political football
 

Colorado Springs Waldo Canyon wildfire forces thousands to flee flames
 

Syria crisis: Erdogan threatens military retaliation - Tuesday 26 June 2012
 

Former school principal could face death penalty after Florida rampage
 

Obama rebukes Congress and says 'no excuse' for inaction on student loans
 

Egypt's whirlwind week of political manoeuvrings
 

Eric Holder to face contempt proceedings over Fast and Furious - US politics live
 

Pakistan's prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani disqualified by supreme court
 

Syria crisis: US and Russia divided on Assad's future - Tuesday 19 June 2012
 

Greek elections: Greece returns to the polls
 

Eve Ensler and Lisa Brown to read Vagina Monologues in Michigan
 

Syria clashes force UN to suspend observer mission
 

Manhunt: From 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter Bergen – review
 

Mystery 'forest boy' identified as Dutch runaway
 

European leaders hold video conference to avert a market meltdown next week
 

Greek crisis prompts new spirit of humanitarianism
 

Al-Shabaab pushed back in Somalia by African peace enforcers
 

Italian police arrest leftwing terror suspects
 

Republicans aim to win Gabrielle Giffords seat in Arizona special election- live
 

Greeks protest against violent neo-Nazi MP on the run
 

Girlfriend defends Miami attacker accused of eating homeless man's face
 

New South African press law 'more harmful than apartheid-era censorship'
 

Hosni Mubarak jailing prompts scenes of jubilation in Cairo - audio
 

Syria crisis: UNHRC emergency meeting - Friday 1 June
 

Federal court in Boston rules Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional
 

Malawi vote to restore rising sun flag
 

 

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