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Hosni Mubarak's sons detained as Egypt's search for justice begins
Ex-president also formally held in Sharm el-Sheikh hospital under suspicion of corruptionThe barbed wire fences and forbidding high walls became a horrifyingly familiar sight to those who dared speak...
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World economists urge G20 ministers to accept Robin Hood tax
More than 50 number-crunchers have written to policymakers asking them to impose levy on City speculators to help poorIf the nine economists on the Bank of England's monetary policy committee can never...
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The Andrew Lansley lifeboat | Evan Harris
Tories claim that GPs support their NHS plans, but doctors oppose them as strongly as nurses doUnsurprisingly Andrew Lansley received a vote of no confidence from the Royal College of Nursing on...
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Universities fear private colleges will 'cherry-pick' lucrative degrees
• Maximum loan for private courses climbs to £6,000• Vice-chancellors afraid reforms could hit qualityVice-chancellors at state-funded universities fear private universities are poised to "cherry-pick"...
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UK refuses to relax airline liquid ban
Plan to lift restrictions on EU transfers have been delayed as airports warn of lack of adequate screening equipmentThe government has blocked relaxation of a ban on carrying liquids in airline hand...
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Economic crisis could push gold price to $1,600, warns report
• New record of $1,476.37 established this week • Despite soaring prices, demand for bars rose 66%Gold prices could top $1,600 per troy ounce before the end of 2011 as the fragility of the global...
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Murder cases given just one prosecutor as CPS pressured to cut costs
Barristers say workload is too much for one lawyer while victim support groups fear miscarriages of justiceBarristers and victim support groups have expressed concerns that in some murder trials,...
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Libyan rebels receive boost of support from international community
Arab world and western ministers issued unanimous call for Gaddafi to step down, saying regime had 'lost all legitimacy'Muammar Gaddafi's regime has "lost all legitimacy" and he must leave power to...
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Shooting badgers to be legal under plans for 'big society cull'
Tories say move will help farmers tackle bovine TB but police warn of illegal badger persecutionThe row over badger culling has erupted again, with Labour describing government plans to allow farmers...
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Who to trust on nuclear? | Paul Dorfman
Even without Fukushima sceptics might wonder why Britain ignores the German lead on energyIn the continuing disaster at Fukushima, Japan's nuclear safety agency has now raised the crisis level to...
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Lansley apologises for failing to explain NHS plans
Health secretary says sorry to nurses, and expresses his commitment to maintaining a healthy NHSAndrew Lansley coupled an apology to Britain's nurses for failing to explain his health reforms with an...
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NHS budget increase of 0.1% is nowhere near enough
Small rise will not allow for the service to cope with an unprecedented conjunction of clinical and financial pressuresIt is not easy to understand how ministers, including David Cameron, can laud the...
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'Continuity Labour' is the real roadblock to renewal | Seumas Milne
If Ed Miliband is going to be able to offer a credible alternative, he'll need a counterweight to the New Labour nostalgicsLess than a year after its sun-kissed dawn, Britain's coalition government is...
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Bahraini woman willing to die if family is not released
Zainab al-Khawaja enters fourth day of hunger strike as government is accused of human rights violations A Bahraini woman who witnessed her father, a well-known human rights activist, being seized by...
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Catherine Zeta-Jones checks into clinic for bipolar disorder treatment
Publicist confirms Catherine Zeta-Jones is undertaking treatment in US following reports of stay in Connecticut hospitalCatherine Zeta-Jones has checked into a clinic in the US for treatment for...
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Betty Blue Eyes – review
Novello, LondonMusicals these days are constantly being based on movies. But this witty and delightful adaptation of the 1984 film A Private Function strikes me as better than the original. It would be...
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Barry Bonds guilty of obstructing steroid investigation
Former San Francisco baseball star misled federal grand jury under oath in 2003Barry Bonds, the US baseball star Barry Bonds has been found guilty in San Francisco of obstruction of justice in relation...
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David Davis takes up challenge to prepare next round of Tory policies
• Cameron leadership rival is drawing up alternative manifesto• Leon Feinstein, social mobility expert, under statistical attackAt a meeting at No 10 the other day, David Cameron, a bad traveller,...
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David Cameron says that immigrants should learn English
The prime minister warns in a speech that an unwillingness to integrate has created a disjointed BritainFull text of David Cameron's speechDavid Cameron will warn that immigrants unable to speak...
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Foetus in distress but midwife failed to read the signals
Parents angry that mistakes in reading danger signs meant their son was born brain damagedToby Hart is severely disabled as a result of being deprived of oxygen during his birth, after a midwife...
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