David Cameron to back law reform to recognise stalking as a crime
Stalkers could be fined and jailed for up to five years, PM expected to announce on International Women's DayStalking will be recognised as a crime for the first time in England and Wales under...
View ArticleIreland set to ratify EU fiscal compact, opinion polls say
Two polls show strong support for treaty, as Fianna Fáil leader Michael Martin says opposition will campaign for 'yes' voteIreland will ratify the EU's fiscal compact, according to the first opinion...
View ArticleHugo Chávez confirms cancer surgery to remove another tumour
Venezuelan president goes on television to say, 'I will live, I will overcome,' after operation in HavanaVenezuelan president Hugo Chávez confirmed he had suffered a recurrence of cancer, saying he...
View ArticleMedia Monkey: Daybreak viewers clock in, a Murdoch mystery and store wars
✒TV's second-worst job, after being one of ESPN's freezing, al fresco sports pundits, must be looking after Daybreak's Twitter feed, presumably a naughty-step assignment. Last week's tweets suggest it...
View ArticleThe way to a new Somalia | Nadifa Mohamed
Expats talk of Mogadishu in all its former glory. With the right foreign support that past can be brought back to lifeAsk a Somali taxi driver in Streatham or Shepherd's Bush what they remember of...
View ArticleStudent faces prison for speaking out in royalist Thailand
The fate of Kanthoop, 20, who faces up to 15 years in jail for 'having opinions', highlights country's harsh pro-monarchy laws She is the very embodiment of modern Thai youth, dressed in flip-flops,...
View ArticleEU plans tough quotas to put women in the boardroom
Justice commissioner Viviane Reding says equality will take another 40 years without tough actionThe European Union's justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, is expected to set aggressive quotas and...
View ArticleAreva could face competition inquiry if it wins UK nuclear power contract
Rival argues French state-owner company would have monopoly if chosen to build Wylfa reactor on AngleseyAreva, the French state-owned nuclear power group, faces the threat of a competition...
View ArticleIf News Corp can't keep Sky and its newspapers, who might buy them?
Before all the recent unpleasantness, there was talk of Murdoch selling off News International. Cue the latest media parlour gameWhen the Wall Street Journal boldly reported last summer that News Corp...
View ArticleOpen door: The corrections and clarifications column editor on... significant...
Technology means that owning up to errors in the Guardian has become everyone's responsibilty, not just the corrections columnSo, where were we? In a past Open door, I began trying to set out, and...
View ArticleRoyal Mail pension assets sell-off could generate £25bn
Tories urge chancellor to spend windfall from investments to pay postal workers' retirement benefits on infrastructure projectsThe government could raise as much as £25bn by selling off assets built up...
View ArticleBP yet to finalise £5bn settlement over Gulf of Mexico oil spill
45 days to tie up loose ends and ease uncertainty over Britain's biggest oil group, says legal chief Rupert BondyBP warned on Sunday that it could not guarantee that the $7.8bn (£5bn) out of court...
View ArticleCardinal Keith O'Brien's gay marriage comments decried as scaremongering
Downing Street reiterates David Cameron's support on issue after Britain's most senior Catholic described it as 'madness'A Catholic clergyman who described gay marriage as "madness" faced criticism on...
View ArticleBarclays executives in line for £7m bonuses from pay deals agreed in 2010
Bank set to reignite anger over bonuses by releasing millions of pounds of shares to top staff under performance-related deals Top bankers at Barclays are expected to have millions of pounds of bonuses...
View ArticleTom Giles: 'There is nothing off-limits'
The Panorama editor on winning awards, the storm over the Primark apology, why why it is worth using Cher Lloyd to tell a story – and a lasting childhood encounter with the showWhen Tom Giles was a...
View ArticleOmagh bombing campaigner Laurence Rush dies aged 70
Activist campaigned for justice after his wife was killed along with 28 other victims in 1998 incidentOne of the most active campaigners for the victims of the Omagh bomb atrocity has died.Laurence...
View ArticleSyrians flee Homs for Lebanon
Up to 2,000 refugees reach border, but fate of thousands unknown as Red Cross still denied access to Baba AmrLebanon is bracing itself for a new influx of Syrian refugees after up to 2,000 people...
View ArticlePolice privatisation plans defended by senior officers
Association of Chief Police Officers says only radical change will allow forces to cope with cuts and protect the publicSenior police officers have strongly defended the radical extension of the role...
View ArticleMinistry of Justice sounds warning over secret hearings
Binyam Mohamed's action against MI5 and MI6 is the sort of embarrassment green paper aims to prevent if it becomes lawIntroducing secret hearings into civil courts could backfire, leading to more...
View ArticleFacebook: you don't have to like it
The site is undergoing a marketing gold rush as brands compete for our attentions – and users' willingness to project a very public image through the companies they choose to likeWho are you? A...
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