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Bin Laden: the war in his words
Osama bin Laden issued a series of opinions and threats after emerging in the mid-1990sSince he first emerged as a high profile threat in the mid-1990s, Osama bin Laden has issued statements, opinions...
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Osama bin Laden: life of elusive militant and fugitive
From studying economics in Jeddah to becoming world's most wanted terrorist1957 (exact date never confirmed) Born Osama bin Mohammad bin Awad bin Laden in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the seventh son among...
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Abbottabad – pretty Himalayan town, pity about the poem
The town's founder, a British general, loved it so much that he wrote a poem about it. But as Stephen Moss found out it might be one of the worst poems ever writtenThere is some argument over whether...
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UK ranks behind Slovenia in childhood wellbeing
Six out of 1,000 British children will die before their fifth birthday and only four in five attend pre-school, says Save the ChildrenChildren in the UK are worse off than those in Slovenia, Estonia...
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Weatherwatch: Tornadoes lash out across the southern US states
A large swathe of violent storms and tornadoes affected the southern midwest and southeastern US states last week, in the deadliest tornado season since at least April 1936. The tornadoes formed along...
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Letters: Osama bin Laden and wild-west justice
The widespread jubilation at the death of Osama bin Laden should not be allowed to disguise the fact that he was an American creation, and that this pattern of first support and then overthrow is a...
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Corrections and clarifications
• A report of the terrorist bombing of a tourist cafe in Marrakech merged the identities of two Britons named Peter Moss in later editions of the paper. The man who died was 59-year-old Peter Moss, an...
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Letters: Preconditions for Israel-Palestine peace
Your editorial on the reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah (29 April) did not mention the pronouncement of Hamas leader Dr Mahmoud al-Zahar on the accord. He said: "Our programme does not include...
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Letters: Neoliberal thinking behind NHS bill
Dr Howard Stoate sets the record straight, showing that David Cameron was wrong, as well as patronising, at PMQs (Response, 29 April). However, Dr Stoate's explanation goes much further in undermining...
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Letter: Postal horror stories
Your article (G2, 29 April) was illuminating in depicting the travails of the postie in the liberalised Dutch mail system. As one at the receiving end of this delivery service, I'd like to affirm that...
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Letters: Chuckle brothers
Brian Logan's entertaining survey of lefty humorists (Comment, 30 April) overlooked an important difference that makes it harder for us to share what the rightwing call humour. Lefty humorists make...
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Country diary: Castle Cary, Somerset
In February we were invited to go down, after dusk, to Fulford's Cross, a busy road junction at the foot of the hill going west out of Castle Cary, where the town gives way to the open country of Cary...
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Hugh Muir's Diary
If anyone knows anything, can they please tell the foreign secretary• Were you surprised by where Osama bin Laden was found, asked Justin Webb of the foreign secretary, William Hague, on Radio 4's...
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US may have got Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad clue in 2008 – WikiLeaks
Courier's interrogation at Guantánamo revealed network of messengers that US traced to track down the al-Qaida leader The US may have obtained a clue three years ago that Osama bin Laden was hiding in...
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Hugh Laurie at Cheltenham Jazz Festival - review
Cheltenham Jazz FestivalThere's a musicians' joke: if you want to make a million out of jazz, start with two million. It's not a theory that's been tested much because players with that kind of...
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Osama bin Laden: laying ghosts to rest | Editorial
It is time to bury the war on terrorGesturing at the dazed and bloodied survivors sitting crumpled in the road, a bystander asked: "How can someone think of doing this kind of thing?" In the two...
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In praise of ... 'Whispering' Ted Lowe | Editorial
Commentators, take a tip from the master, and keep both the volume and the word count LoweAs often as not, contemporary sports coverage involves a hectoring earful of breathless banter about football....
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Fox station gets its Osamas and Obamas in a twist
A grimly amusing raft of spelling mistakes in the US media has confused Osama (bin Laden) and Barack (Obama)Modern media works at lightning speed, especially social media such as Twitter. Which may...
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40 minutes of fighting, and then two fatal shots
Osama bin Laden's death was the denouement of a decade-long search for America's public enemy number oneThe helicopters swooped in the dead of night, flying in formation across the lower ranges of the...
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Osama bin Laden: Dead, but how did he hide so long?
Al-Qaida leader's death on its soil leaves Pakistan facing awkward questions The Obama administration is demanding an explanation from Pakistan on how Osama bin Laden was able to hide in the country...
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