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Guantánamo Bay files: Freed prisoners who joined Taliban and al-Qaida
Row over whether imprisonment is radicalising the innocent as some go home to take up arms against US and alliesMullah Abdullah Zakir is around 40 years old, runs insurgent operations in his native...
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Royal wedding: My patriotic fever pitch | Ros Coward
A royal pundit vacuum in the US means I'm a go-to expert in a country gorging itself on Kate 'n' Wills trivia'Are y'all ready for the wedding?" Whenever I speak in Philadelphia, where I have been...
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Barclays faces protests over role in global food crisis
Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm, blamed for driving price rises through commodity trading Barclays will be targeted during its annual meeting on Wednesday by anti-poverty campaigners...
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Partners fall out in dispute over African diamond mining interests
Russian-Israeli tycoon Arkady Gaydamak sues Lev LevievArkady Gaydamak, the controversial Russian-Israeli tycoon and convicted arms dealer, is suing his business partner, the billionaire Lev Leviev,...
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US photographer seeks British girl he captured on film in 1960
Bruce Davidson, who is in Britain to receive an award, hopes to find the girl who posed for him with a kittenThe great American documentary photographer Bruce Davidson is in the UK this week to receive...
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ISAs should be scrapped, says thinktank
Institute for Public Policy Research suggests ISAs have failed to encourage saving among low-to-middle income earnersIndividual savings accounts (ISAs) should be scrapped as they have failed to...
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Nintendo lines up Wii successor
Company to reveal successor to wireless console this summer before full launch next year, in bid to reverse profits slideIt could be game over for the Wii console after Nintendo announced that it would...
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Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum? | Paul Davies
Rather than rogue cells gone berserk, cancers may be the foot soldiers of ages-old atavismsForty years ago President Richard Nixon declared a "war on cancer". Yet in spite of $100bn (£60bn) of...
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Tax blow to French Connection founder could cost him £500,000
Stephen Marks claimed that in 1982 the company was worth £8.4m, but tax tribunal rules it was worth just £4.1mFrench Connection founder Stephen Marks has a suffered a tax blow that could cost him...
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Syria's political prisoners: 'It's hard to imagine how I got through it'
Arrests and disappearances have again become rife in Syria as protests against Bashar al-Assad's rule escalateIn his modest house in a quiet corner of the Syrian capital, Mahmoud offers a nervous...
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Afghanistan's great escape: how 480 Taliban prisoners broke out of jail
It may not have been Stalag Luft III, but the escape from Sarpoza prison in Kandahar was pretty ingeniousKandahar's prison may not be Stalag Luft III but in terms of ingenuity, organisation and sheer...
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Syria sanctions planned by US after Deraa assault
US condemns Syrian government's 'brutal violence' and considers freezing assets of senior officials accused of rights abusesThe White House is preparing to introduce new sanctions against the Syrian...
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Fire ants stick together to sail through stormy weather
US engineers film insects to see how they overcome natural hazardsWhen flood waters threaten their underground nests, fire ants order an immediate evacuation. They make their way to the surface and...
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Concerns for air traffic during volcanic ash cloud were legitimate, say...
Tests have found that grains in the ash cloud were sharp enough to put aircraft at risk from abrasion and engine failureAn independent investigation into the volcanic ash cloud that caused travel chaos...
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Why hackers and spooks want our heads in the cloud | John Harris
Our unthinking embrace of these giant data centres is throttling the giddy anti-authoritarian computing dreamImagine this. A notorious multinational is on the lookout for new business. For the sake of...
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Carbon cuts by developed countries cancelled out by imported goods
Kyoto protocol means carbon footprints are calculated for the countries producing goods, not those consuming themCuts in carbon emissions by developed countries since 1990 have been cancelled out three...
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Syria's crackdown on protesters becomes dramatically more brutal
Tanks and troops enter towns and villages for the first time as scores of people are reportedly killed across SyriaThe Syrian government's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations has escalated...
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Hackers keep PlayStation Network offline for fifth day
Sony says it is working to get internet-based retail service back online quickly after an 'external intrusion'Hackers have kept Sony's lucrative PlayStation Network offline for a fifth day while...
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Yes, but is it drawing? London 2011 Biennial Fundraiser
The best works auctioned at east London's Drawing Room, by Turner prizewinners and younger artists alike, are self-regarding, silly, and muse on the nature of drawing itselfEvery two years the Drawing...
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Wi-Fi security flaw for smartphones puts your credit cards at risk
BT Openzone and other hotspots can be easily mimicked leaving consumers vulnerable, Guardian investigation findsMillions of smartphone users and BT customers who use Wi-Fi wireless internet "hotspot"...
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