Julian Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in central London since June 2012. He initially sought asylum following a series of legal challenges through British courts to a European arrest warrant issued by Sweden, where he was accused of …
None of us is without flaws. So if we seek forgiveness for our own frailties, why should we not bestow it, asks journalist Alex Clark At a literary festival not so long ago, I interviewed the novelist Sophie Hannah known …
Hoping to rouse more of the world to action Jetnil-Kijiner and Niviana in Greenland with Bill McKibben Photograph: 350.org Weve come with a video crew to the remote fjords of southern Greenland. After two days travelling by boat, weve unloaded …
Record-breaking US wildfires are fueling a cottage industry of boutique services and many are happy to pay the price With record-breaking wildfires carving up the American west this summer, firefighters have become the rarest of civil servants: the kind almost …
Researchers say drug has little benefit when taken by healthy people aged over 70 Millions of healthy people who take aspirin to ward off illness in old age are unlikely to benefit from the drug, a trial has found. While …
The Turkish lira sank to a record low as concern about souring relations with the U.S. and runaway inflation outweighed the nation’s plans to stem a market rout. The lira sank about 4 percent, while the iShares MSCI Turkey ETF …
After sightings in London and Paris, whale is now making waves in Spanish capital Call me Ishmael. Or, better still, Spanish whale. Madrid awoke on Friday morning to find that a 15-metre sperm whale had managed to swim up the …
Sellers of dangerous synthetic opioid and other hard drugs say they can ship to Britain Drug users can easily buy potentially lethal substances through Chinese eBay-style websites, the Guardian can reveal. Websites based in China are selling the dangerous opioid …
The world’s most expensive precious metal is set to get even pricier as a mining retreat in South Africa threatens a supply shortage. Rhodium — a byproduct of platinum mining that’s used in the chemical sector and by the auto …
(CNN)For Janki Goud, the threat of rape has long loomed large. In the state of Madhya Pradesh in northern India, where Goud lives, rape is among the most common crimes against women. The region accounted for 4,882 of the 38,947 …
