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Oldham's effort to end segregation in schools now looks hopelessly ambitious
By the time Asian and white children arrive at secondary schools, their perceptions of each other are crystallisedTen years ago one of the UK's worst race riots began with a minor skirmish near the...
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Read all about it: Britons have always loved scandal | Tim Luckhurst
Long before Twitter, we were lapping up the indiscretions of the rich and famous through the popular pressTim LuckhurstKiss-and-tell stories sold by young women to popular newspapers became staples of...
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Response: Of course we need industrial goods, but to save Earth we must cut...
We could lead more fulfilling lives by slowing down the rate of technological progressGeorge Monbiot asks whether I and other advocates of a more land-based economy are "really proposing that we do...
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Our inner need to talk about Ryan Giggs | Anouchka Grose
If thinking about parental copulation is a bit close to the bone, we can use the likes of Ryan Giggs to explore the lite versionTalking about sex is almost always interesting. Given that it's the only...
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The Michelle Obama model's flaws | Dreda Say Mitchell
Celebrity mentoring gives young people a distorted idea of success and lets politicians off the hookOn her last visit to the UK in 2009, Michelle Obama visited an excellent inner city school in...
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Taliban kill head of Afghan girls' school
Government officials say teacher had ignored death threats from hardline Islamists warning him not to teach girlsTaliban gunmen have killed the headteacher of a girls' school near the Afghan capital...
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China crisis over Yangtze river drought forces drastic dam measures
Severe drought has forced China to release 5bn cubic metres from Three Gorges reservoir for irrigation and drinking waterThe Yangtze – Asia's biggest river – is experiencing its worst drought in 50...
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From the archive, 25 May 1978: Decent end to a royal marriage
Originally published in the Guardian on 25 May 1978She was always known as Princess Margaret Rose as a girl, and that was the name to which she responded at her wedding, but surely the second name...
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Supreme court quashes Scottish man's murder conviction
Nat Fraser had not received a fair trial when he was jailed in 2003 for murder of his estranged wife, Arlene, supreme court rulesA former fruit and vegetable trader who was jailed for the "evil,...
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Yemeni president adamant he 'will not leave power'
Ali Abdullah Saleh defies western efforts to negotiate an exit as clashes continue in capital for third dayYemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh has issued messages of defiance, saying he will not step...
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Wind forecast upgrade should mean big drop in fossil fuel use
UK's electricity infrastructure controller now knows where the wind will blow next 87% of the time – potentially saving 1.5GWBetter forecasting of where the wind is blowing could allow British fossil...
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South African president, Jacob Zuma, to visit Tripoli for talks with Gaddafi
Johannesburg radio claims the aim is to discuss an exit strategy for the Libyan leaderThe South African president, Jacob Zuma, is to visit Tripoli for talks with the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.The...
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Red Cross and Vatican 'helped thousands of Nazi war criminals escape'
New research suggests number of Nazis and collaborators who used travel documents meant for genuine refugees was much higher than previously thoughtThe Red Cross and the Vatican both helped thousands...
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Labour opposes voice for anti-abortion group on sexual health forum
Yvette Cooper says appointment of Life organisation to panel raises question over ministers' continuing support for abortionThe Labour party has said that the appointment of a campaigning anti-abortion...
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Tunisian dissident blogger quits ministerial post
Slim Amamou, who was appointed as minister for youth and sport after the fall of Ben Ali, resignsSlim Amamou, the Tunisian blogger who went from underground torture chamber to interim government in the...
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Spanish protesters start Madrid clean-up
Demonstrators camped in Puerta del Sol remove graffiti and clean up shopfronts after complaints from local businessesProtesters camped out in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square have begun to...
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Goddess of small things: Frida Kahlo miniature could fetch $1m at auction
Mexican artist's 5cm by 4cm self-portrait, originally a gift for one of her lovers, put on sale at Sotheby's in New YorkThe familiar thick eyebrows joined at the bridge of the nose are there, as are...
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Ireland has two years to put its house in order, says ratings agency
Standard & Poor's says republic faces threat of credit downgrade as fresh debt fears drive down euro on foreign exchangesIreland has two years to convince financial markets that it is different...
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Jane White Cooke obituary
My mother, Jane White Cooke, who has died aged 98, was a gifted and successful portrait painter. In her early 20s, she was awarded a prize by the National Academy of Design in New York, which included...
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