WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to face seven Supreme Court judges when he appeals his extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations.
Swiss banker gives WikiLeaks founder data about amount of potential revenue lost to offshore schemes.
The collapse of the House of Gladiators has brought home a simple truth — what is excavated has to be protected.
In the absence of a free press, Iranians are turning to social media to share political messages, writes Esther Addley.
They still pray for Madeleine McCann in the little whitewashed church in Praia da Luz, a small but faithful clutch of 15 or so locals and ex-pats who stumble down the little cobbled hill to the church every Friday evening for a "service for missing children".
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/ 5 November 2007
The British Ministry of Defence is conducting a major study into brain injury in troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan amid fears that thousands of soldiers may have suffered damage after being exposed to high-velocity explosions. The United States army says as many as 20% of its soldiers and marines have suffered "mild traumatic brain injury" from blows to the head or shockwaves caused by explosions.
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/ 31 October 2007
The Gautrain is South Africa’s biggest and most ambitious public transport project yet. Once it is completed, Pretoria, Johannesburg and OR Tambo airport will be linked via 80km of rail, some of it underground, and 10 new stations. The link between the airport and Sandton will be completed in time for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
Esther Addley asks whether Amy Winehouse’s overdose will make the talented singer alter her lifestyle.
In a titanic battle worthy of Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort, one of Britain’s largest supermarket chains and the country’s most powerful independent publisher squared up this week over the latest and last novel about the young wizard. Less than a week before the launch of <i>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</i>, supermarket chain Asda launched an attack on Bloomsbury.
A report card on the new government. By Anton Harber.