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Al-Qaida raids on Yemen army bases leave 78 soldiers dead
Surprise attack in southern Abyan province is latest assault blamed on militants since President Saleh was voted outAl-Qaida militants have launched a surprise attack against army bases in southern...
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Congo-Brazzaville rescuers hampered by more explosions
Smaller blasts restrict efforts to reach victims after arms depot explosion killed more than 200 and flattened buildingsSmall explosions shook Congo-Brazzaville for a second day after a fire in an arms...
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NHS bill: Royal College of Physicians surveys members over reforms
College invites fellows and members to have their say on whether it should reject bill, after warnings at EGMThe Royal College of Physicians is sending out a survey to all 26,000 members and fellows on...
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Secret Policeman's Ball – review
Radio City Music Hall, New YorkSunday afternoon, Radio City Music Hall, and rehearsals for the Secret Policeman's Ball were in full flow: Russell Brand was stalking the aisles and Eddie Izzard was...
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Dear Jeremy work and careers advice: have your say
• Shouldn't my partner be better rewarded for his work?• My voluntary redundancy wasn't entirely through choiceAt the start of each week, we publish the problems that will feature in this Saturday's...
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Corrections and clarifications
Horatio Chapple and BSES Expeditions | Contacts between Tunisians and tourists• Boy's polar bear death 'preventable' but tour leaders will not face prosecution was corrected because it named Horatio...
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Lord St John of Fawsley, former Tory minister, dies at 82
Politician made a lasting mark on the Commons by creating the select committee system, and was also a prolific authorThe politician, author, barrister and constitutional expert Lord St John of Fawsley...
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Religious schools: Testing faith | Editorial
A new database provides a varied but worrying picture of faith schools disproportionately serving the better-heeled sections of their local communities at the expense of the disadvantagedThe ongoing...
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Russian elections 'skewed' in Putin's favour, warn observers
International monitors say result was never in doubt amid allegations of ballot rigging and 'carousel voting'Russia's presidential election was "clearly skewed" in favour of Vladimir Putin, an...
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Pension incomes could rise an average 20% under annuity reforms
Cde of conduct will require insurers to provide clear information to help people who retire get best income from pension potsHundreds of thousands of people who retire could benefit from an average...
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Letters: Snow cone
Tesco is not "creating" 20,000 jobs (Report, 5 March). For every person employed at a new supermarket, an average of five other people locally lose their jobs. So while Tesco may well be "employing"...
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Letters: Work experience scheme still open to abuse
Ministers are desperate to present the work experience programme as helping young people to find work (Government U-turn on work scheme, 1 March), suggesting that nobody could disagree with that. But...
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Letters: Treading the thin blue line on police privatisation
It's four weeks early for April Fools' Day (Revealed: hidden government plans to privatise the police, 3 March). Not only is the list of functions to be privatised "breathtaking", the very principle is...
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Letter: Florence's fever
I was interested to read that Frank Hilton has long suspected Florence Nightingale of having been a laudanum addict (Letters, 3 March). Nightingale did indeed spend the 53 years on her return from...
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Letter: Istanbul needs neighbourhood regeneration
Istanbul may well not need the mega-projects described by Constanze Letsch (The razing of Istanbul's history, 2 March). But make no mistake about it, huge swaths of the city's older neighbourhoods must...
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Letters: Secrets and scrutiny
The worst excesses of the war on terror have been revealed by open courts and a free media. Yet the justice and security green paper seeks to place government above the law and would undermine such...
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Yes, legal aid will be cut, but not where it hurts the silks | Polly Toynbee
Lawyers have much to lose in Clarke's bill, and it's only when Tories' interests are involved that their sense of injustice twitchesThe first thing we do, let's kill all lawyers", says a Jack Cade...
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Israel and Iran: straining at the leash | Editorial
Barack Obama will have to invest significant resources and time to defuse the Iranian bomb programme crisis peacefullyNearly a year has passed since Israel's former intelligence chief Meir Dagan said...
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Vladimir Putin: No more the strongman | Stephen Holmes
The explosive reaction in Moscow to Putin's election shows the limits of his pseudo-stateProjecting an image of control is essential in Russia, a country where many citizens are happy to avoid...
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Compassionate Conservatives find it's time to think again
The thinktank that helped forge the prime minister's pitch to the electorate has not run out of ideas yetA small but significant anniversary in modern Conservative politics is celebrated on Wednesday...
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