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Balanced reporting on what EU membership means? Fat chance…
Lynsey Addario: ‘War journalists are not all addicted to adrenaline. It’s a calling’
Should the church be a radical voice in politics?
Is 10% of the population really gay?
Cern's Large Hadron Collider restarts with sights set on dark matter
Kenya's Easter prayers mark start of official mourning for university attacks
On my radar: Attica Locke’s cultural highlights
Philippines fears subside as typhoon Maysak downgraded
Whiteboard diplomacy: permanent marker sparks panic at the Iran talks
Germanwings crash: EU concerns over German monitoring of crew health
Northern Territory's Eastern Reggae Band perform in the studio – video
Iran disputes US nuclear deal 'fact sheet'
NSW health worker who fell sick after return from west Africa cleared of Ebola
Malaysian PM's chief of staff and former ambassador killled in helicopter crash
For the record
Tenancingo: the small town at the dark heart of Mexico’s sex-slave trade
Hassan Rouhani: reformist insider who has ended Iran’s isolation
Fenerbahce team bus attacked on journey home from Rizespor match
Human rights activists’ dismay as Uzbekistan autocrat clings to power
Periscope phone app gives millions a way to live-stream their lives

Balanced reporting on what EU membership means? Fat chance…

Posted: 05 Apr 2015 01:00 AM PDT

… but with Politico's new team assembling in Brussels, maybe we'll have a hope Continue reading...

Lynsey Addario: ‘War journalists are not all addicted to adrenaline. It’s a calling’

Posted: 05 Apr 2015 12:30 AM PDT

The photojournalist's work in conflict zones has seen her subjected to the horrors of the frontline, including being kidnapped in 2011. In a new memoir, already optioned by Hollywood, the mother-of-one explains why she keeps on going back

Should the church be a radical voice in politics?

Posted: 05 Apr 2015 12:00 AM PDT

The Church of England is having a lively election campaign, attacking our divisive political culture and calling for a fresh vision for Britain. The Tories told the bishops to stop meddling, but the episode highlights the church's ability to talk straight on subjects politicians shy away from

Is 10% of the population really gay?

Posted: 05 Apr 2015 12:00 AM PDT

Drawing on the widest survey of sexual behaviour since the Kinsey Report, David Spiegelhalter, in his book Sex By Numbers, answers key questions about our private lives. Here he reveals how Kinsey's contested claim that 10% of us are gay is actually close to the mark

Cern's Large Hadron Collider restarts with sights set on dark matter

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 11:22 PM PDT

The world's largest and most powerful atom smasher has been upgraded, raising hopes of a 'new era for science'

Kenya's Easter prayers mark start of official mourning for university attacks

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 11:01 PM PDT

Flags fly at half-mast as President Kenyatta vows to retaliate in 'severest way' and al-Shabaab warns of 'long, gruesome war'

On my radar: Attica Locke’s cultural highlights

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT

The crime writer on what makes an artist, the difficulty of finding good BBQ outside Texas and her fascination with LA's Scientologists

Philippines fears subside as typhoon Maysak downgraded

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 10:09 PM PDT

Typhoon downgraded to a tropical depression as it makes landfall, easing anxieties after thousands of residents were evacuated from coast

Whiteboard diplomacy: permanent marker sparks panic at the Iran talks

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 09:33 PM PDT

The information technology was old school and pushed around on wheels at the Lausanne nuclear negotiations

Germanwings crash: EU concerns over German monitoring of crew health

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 08:48 PM PDT

European Aviation Safety Agency pointed out 'non-conformity' with air safety rules before crash that killed 150 people

Northern Territory's Eastern Reggae Band perform in the studio – video

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 07:47 PM PDT

The Eastern Reggae Band hail from a remote Indigenous community in the Northern Territory. The band come from the Eastern Arrernte community of Santa Teresa, or Ltyentye Apurte, south-east of Alice Springs. This recording was made in Alice Springs and was produced and recorded under a regional music development program run by the Alice Springs Indigenous label, Caama Music. Continue reading...

Iran disputes US nuclear deal 'fact sheet'

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 07:41 PM PDT

Foreign minister takes issue with statement that refers to sanctions being suspended rather than lifted and says Iran could resume nuclear programme if west does not honour agreement

NSW health worker who fell sick after return from west Africa cleared of Ebola

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 06:59 PM PDT

The healthcare worker was tested at Sydney's Westmead hospital after developing influenza-like symptoms upon her return from Africa

Malaysian PM's chief of staff and former ambassador killled in helicopter crash

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 06:40 PM PDT

Witness reports mid-air explosion as six people killed, including Najib Razak's principal private secretary and senior member of his party

For the record

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 04:07 PM PDT

Tenancingo: the small town at the dark heart of Mexico’s sex-slave trade

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 04:05 PM PDT

Local crime families have grown rich by luring poor, uneducated girls into fake romances, then forcing them into prostitution

María Méndez was a live-in domestic worker when she met Ricardo López on her way to the supermarket. She was 15, from a poor family in the state of Mexico, and had been cleaning houses since the age of eight. He was a cocky, charming 16-year-old from Tenancingo, a small town in the neighbouring state of Tlaxcala. He courted her, promising marriage and a home. She desperately wanted it to be true, and within a fortnight moved with him to Tenancingo.

At first López and his family treated her well, but it quickly turned violent. "He sent me to work as a prostitute in Tijuana, Guadalajara, Torreón, Aguascalientes – all over the country to make money selling my body," Méndez, now 59, told the Observer. "He said the money was to buy land so we could build a little house, but it was all false, even the name he'd given me was false. He made me live a very sad, ugly, desperate life. I was so ashamed."

Hassan Rouhani: reformist insider who has ended Iran’s isolation

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 04:04 PM PDT

The Iranian president has long carried the hopes of his country's reformists. Now, thanks to last week's nuclear deal with the US, the pragmatist has made good on his promise

Nearly two years after Hassan Rouhani was elected Iran's president and began the slow process of rebuilding trust with Washington, a nuclear deal was reached last week in Switzerland. His nation promised to make drastic cuts to its nuclear programme in return for the gradual lifting of sanctions as part of a historic breakthrough in Lausanne that could end a 13-year nuclear standoff.

"Today is a day that will remain in the historical memory of the Iranian nation," the moderate cleric said shortly after the deal was announced, as he thanked Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, without whose approval he could never have stepped up engagement with the west.

Fenerbahce team bus attacked on journey home from Rizespor match

Posted: 04 Apr 2015 02:39 PM PDT

• Fenerbahce bus attacked by assailant with a gun
• Driver wounded and taken to hospital

The Fenerbahce team bus came under armed attack on its way to the airport following their 5-1 away win at the Black Sea side Caykur Rizespor in Turkey's Super Lig.

Fener said on their official website that the bus driver was wounded in the attack and taken to hospital. There was no mention of any injuries to anyone else.