Twitter user reveals alleged details of secret injunctions
Pressure intensifies to identify people who have taken out gagging orders to protect their reputations or privacyPressure to reveal the identities of celebrities protected by injunctions has...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden must have had Pakistan support network, says Obama
Barack Obama raises pressure on Pakistan to investigate whether its people were involved in helping Bin Laden hideBarack Obama has ratcheted up the pressure on Pakistan, demanding that the Pakistani...
View ArticleIran helping Syrian regime crack down on protesters, say diplomats
Claim comes as four women shot dead by security forces in first use of violence against an all-female demonstrationIran is playing an increasingly active role in helping the Syrian regime in its...
View ArticlePolice hold closed hearings to sack 477 officers for misconduct
FoI request reveals hearings held in private into offences ranging from perverting course of justice to criminal activityPolice forces are sacking almost 160 officers on average each year after...
View ArticleGoogle doodle celebrates Roger Hargreaves's Mr Men books
Google unveils 16 doodles of characters from much-loved books by English author and illustratorThe 76th birthday of Roger Hargreaves, the English author and illustrator who delighted generations of...
View ArticleJohn Walker, founder member of the Walker Brothers, dies aged 67
Tributes paid to songwriter, vocalist, guitarist 'and gentleman with lots of style' who played pivotal role in bandJohn Walker, one of the founders of the Walker Brothers, has died at the age of 67.The...
View ArticleCBI criticises schools over 'inadequate' literacy and numeracy
Survey of over 500 firms shows many employers dissatisfied with school leavers' numeracy and use of EnglishAlmost half of all employers have paid for remedial training for school and college leavers...
View ArticleJapanese nuclear plant to shut down temporarily
Hamaoka nuclear plant, which sits near a major fault line, to be made more resistant to earthquakes and tsunamisThe operator of Japan's "most dangerous" nuclear plant has said it will comply with a...
View ArticleTheresa May hands power to prosecute back to police
Home secretary wants police, rather than crown prosecutors, to make decision in more than 80% of casesThe power to decide whether a suspect is to be charged is to be taken from crown prosecutors and...
View ArticleIan Tomlinson: key evidence that police withheld from coroner, IPCC and family
Met constables gave testimony to inspector within 48 hours of Tomlinson's death – but information was not passed to watchdog• The police witnesses who saw Tomlinson pushed (pdf)For two years the family...
View ArticleAn escape from the Arab Spring: one migrant's voyage to Europe
Mohamed Munadi's Tunisian village was barely affected by the uprising, but he was one of many who fled when Libya eruptedEverybody on the boat smoked. There was nothing else to do, except when the...
View ArticleIan Tomlinson evidence was held back from IPCC
Three constables reported seeing newspaper seller struck with baton and pushed to ground days before video emerged• The police witnesses who saw Tomlinson pushed (pdf)Senior police were told 48 hours...
View ArticleGreek crisis allows Osborne to peddle myths
The local election results show the Conservatives can win votes even as they slash Britons' living standardsGeorge Osborne can hardly believe his luck. A year ago, the bailout of Greece by the European...
View ArticleCBI lowers UK growth forecasts
CBI revised its forecast for the economy to grow by 1.7% this year and 2.2% in 2012, from 1.8% and 2.3% forecast in February The economy will grow less strongly than first predicted, the CBI warns...
View ArticleOpen door: royal wedding coverage
The readers' editor on … a day of too much pomp and circumstanceComplaints to the Guardian's readers' editor, and the paper's letters' page, about the royal wedding coverage convey a general sense that...
View ArticleApple iPhone triggers fight in Chinese shop
Staff close Beijing shop after scuffle breaks out in frenzy to buy newly launched white iPhone 4A fight broke out between an employee and a customer at an Apple store in China's capital amid a frenzy...
View ArticleOverseas relatives of British families to lose visit visa appeal rights
Exclusive: Leaked Home Office policy paper reveals legally risky plan for ministers to scrap right of appealMinisters are to scrap the right of appeal for more than 80,000 relatives of British families...
View ArticlePorschegate leaves Sarkozy rival with the headache of champagne socialism
Dominique Strauss-Kahn pictured in €100,000 car, undermining socialist credentials ahead of expected bid for presidencyIn a country that has never forgiven Nicolas Sarkozy's love of bling, it wasn't...
View ArticlePakistan spy agency's alleged role in Mumbai terrorist attacks to be revealed
Witness in US trial expected to say ISI officers were complicit in the 2008 terrorist attacks that killed more than 160 peopleThe apparent involvement of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate...
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