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Companies paid £1,800 to meet ministers at networking events
Transparency campaigners raise concerns over Chemistry Club events that were previously banned by the Cabinet Office• Read the data blogCompanies have been paying up to £1,800 a head to meet ministers,...
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Care Quality Commission puts gagging orders on six employees
MP discloses news of gagging orders on the day that Cynthia Bowers, the CQC boss, faces Commons select committeeA health watchdog with responsibility for protecting NHS whistleblowers has asked at...
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Leveson must back ban on sexualised images in media, women's groups say
Explicit newspaper pictures censored in inquiry evidence but Leveson warned change would require 'rock-solid legislation'When Lord Justice Leveson launched his inquiry into the ethics of the press he...
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Critics turn on Alex Salmond over 'progressive beacon' claims
SNP first minister accused of worsening outlook for most disadvantaged as he delivers Hugo Young lectureAlex Salmond's opponents have accused him of deceiving voters by making claims that Scotland is a...
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Iran sanctions need to be tougher, Israeli defence minister warns
Ehud Barak says the EU oil embargo alone is unlikely to persuade Tehran to abandon its nuclear plansIsrael's defence minister, Ehud Barak, has warned that tougher sanctions need to be imposed on Iran...
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Nigerian police station bombed in 'Boko Haram' attack
Gunmen believed to be members of Islamist sect fire on police station in city of Kano, where 185 people died in attacks last weekSuspected members of the radical Boko Haram Islamist sect attacked a...
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Angela Merkel casts doubt on saving Greece from financial meltdown
German chancellor speaks candidly to the Guardian and five other leading European newspapers as part of a unique collaboration to explore the EU's predicamentAngela Merkel has cast doubt for the first...
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What has Europe ever done for us?
Together with five other leading newspapers from across the continent, we examine the EU's strengths and weaknessesThe European Union is grappling with its deepest crisis in 60 years, a malaise that...
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Royal Ballet star Sergei Polunin quits
The Royal Ballet's youngest ever principal stuns the dance world with abrupt decision to leave the company with immediate effectSergei Polunin, the 21-year-old star of the Royal Ballet, has stunned the...
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Royal medical colleges toughen stance against NHS reforms
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges outline 'significant concerns' about coalition's heath and social care billBritain's medical establishment has decided to toughen its stance against the coalition's...
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HGV and lorry drivers face £10 daily road fee
British hauliers welcome proposals aimed at ensuring that non-UK haulage firms contribute to upkeep of British highwaysLorry drivers will be charged to use roads under government proposals announced on...
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Somalia: foreign aid workers held hostage freed in US helicopter raid
Obama praises special forces after night-time operation to release a US national and a Dane kidnapped by piratesUS military forces have freed an American and a Danish hostage after a gun battle with...
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George Osborne wheels the old alibis towards the halted makers' march
Negative growth figures show the chancellor's strategy is well off track, but Labour is not reaping the benefitThe political script was given its big rewrite with the autumn statement's admission that...
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Indian bus driver kills nine during rampage in Pune
Police hold 30-year-old on murder charge after he drove bus into pedestrians and rammed vehicles in western Indian cityA bus driver has mown down pedestrians and rammed cars, scooters and food stalls...
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Megaupload investigation: Kim Dotcom denied bail
File-sharing multimillionaire faces four more weeks in jail in New Zealand after judge warns he could try to flee to GermanyThe file-sharing multimillionaire, Kim Dotcom, is facing a further four weeks...
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Alex Salmond could stage multi-option Scottish independence referendum
Scottish first minister to unveil formal consultation on blueprint for vote on ending political and economic union with EnglandAlex Salmond will urge civic leaders who want greater powers for Holyrood...
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Corrections and clarifications
Sue Gardner, Wikimedia | Excelsior Academy, Newcastle• Too many senior staff in academies? has been corrected because it said that Excelsior Academy, Newcastle "paid its executive principal between...
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LA faces porn pullout over condom law
Adult film-makers say they could abandon US porn capital because of legal requirement for performers to wear condomsActors in adult movies filmed in Los Angeles will be required to use condoms under an...
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Trust me, we should be concerned about Essex University's honesty study
The Essex study matters because trust towards people and institutions we don't know is vital to the functioning of societySo, we're more dishonest than we used to be, according to a University of Essex...
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Olympics organisers urged to ban tents for fear of Occupy-style protests
Theresa May vows to prevent 'encampments' – but London 2012 security chiefs argue against prohibiting tentsThe home secretary has vowed to clamp down on the threat of "encampment-style" protests within...
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