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US security firm Stratfor attacked by 'Robin Hood' hackers
Group linked to Anonymous says it diverted $500,000 to various charities in attack driven by anger at Bradley Manning caseThousands of customers of a leading US security company are due to be given...
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Arab League monitors visit Homs
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to try and prevent what some warned would be a whitewash inspectionTens of thousands of Syrian demonstrators took to the streets of Homs during a...
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Vote Obama – if you want a centrist Republican for US president | Glenn...
Because Barack Obama has adopted so many core Republican beliefs, the US opposition race is a shamblesAmerican presidential elections are increasingly indistinguishable from the reality TV competitions...
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Italian island rocked by first murder in 56 years
Lipari police say killer of 62-year-old woman found with her throat slashed may be among island's small populationThe tiny island of Lipari, an idyllic jewel off the north coast of Sicily usually free...
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Spending cuts threaten Scotland's endangered species
Projects to protect red squirrels, sea eagles and beavers at risk over cuts imposed on main nature conservation agencyMajor projects to promote rare and endangered species such as red squirrels, sea...
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'Virginity tests' on Egypt protesters are illegal, says judge
Decision may open door to financial compensation for women subjected to tests during anti-government protestsForced "virginity tests" on female detainees were ruled illegal in Egypt on Tuesday, after a...
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Man dies after stabbing at Rochdale Christmas party
Police appeal for witnesses to knifing during private function at a nightclub in the early hours of Christmas DayA man died after being stabbed at a party in the early hours of Christmas Day.John Lee...
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Letters: We will not bribe tube workers
For the Guardian to suggest that London Underground should "bribe" tube drivers with "generous overtime payments" to avert a Boxing Day strike is incredible (Editorial, 27 December). Nor is it right to...
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Country diary: Wenlock Edge
Gertcha! I yelled and got back witchy little cackles from redwings in the treetops. I'd been keeping an eye on that particular holly for months. It berried early during the warm sunny days of autumn...
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Letters: Passenger backlash over soaring rail fares
While transport secretary Justine Greening has scaled back season ticket price hikes from 8% to 6%, the government and rail companies still need to brace themselves for a huge commuter backlash in the...
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Letters: Africa's new elite
I was surprised to read David Smith (Africa's burgeoning middle class, 26 December) give such uncritical attention to La Cité du Fleuve in Kinshasa, which most Congolese view as a vast vanity project...
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Letters: Feint praise
I am surprised to see an article on "crumbling classrooms" (27 December) with no mention of one of the coalition government's first acts – axing Labour's Building Schools for the Future programme. As a...
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Letters: Morris dancing beats hunting for Boxing Day fun
Jim Paice MP says the Hunting Act is "simply not working" (Lukewarm response to ministers' hunting cry, 27 December). Is he basing this on the fact that some people still purposely go out to hunt...
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The business plan to stop ecocide | Juliette Jowit
Nature is under constant attack from corporate forces. But Polly Higgins wants to find a capitalist to fight for the environmentWilliam Wilberforce is popularly credited with the abolition of slavery....
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Letters: Sell-off death toll
Professors Earle and Gehlbach (Letters, 27 December) continue their criticisms of our Lancet paper that showed an association between the depth and speed of mass privatisation in the former Soviet...
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NHS cuts have affected patient care say four out of five doctors
Exclusive poll backs up consultants' protests over bed closures and longer waiting times for surgeryThe coalition's pledge to protect the NHS is in fresh doubt after four out of five doctors said they...
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David Cameron's pledge to protect NHS clouded by emerging reality of cuts
Some NHS treatments deemed unaffordable as experts says debate needed on what NHS can offerDay by day, the hope that frontline NHS services would somehow remain magically untouched by the coalition's...
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Gospel starts to strike a chord in Brazil, the home of bossa nova
Evangelical Christians' music is gaining ground in Brazil, with major TV channel screening gospel festival at ChristmasIt was an unconventional start to a rock concert: an explosion of fluorescent...
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Malaysia bids to save Borneo Sumatran rhino from extinction
Wildlife authorities hope a rare young female captured in the wild will mate with a rescued maleMalaysian wildlife authorities say they have captured a female Borneo Sumatran rhino, who will be paired...
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Arrest after elderly man hit by car dies in hospital
27-year-old woman held in connection with death of man who was hit outside supermarket in BirminghamA 27-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the death of an elderly man who was hit by a...
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