Rio cops get retaliation in first
Police in Rio de Janeiro state, which hosts the Olympics in August, killed at least 645 people last year and 8,000 over the last decade,...
Would this have happened if he was white?
The backlash was appalling, you could argue disproportionate. But the gunning down of police officers in Dallas was clearly not...
Blair's toxic legacy is undeniable
A grinning Tony Blair takes a selfie in front of a country in ruins: it's only a mock-up, of course. But you get the picture. Despite his...
Aussie state bans 'cruel' greyhound racing
New South Wales will become the first Australian state to ban greyhound racing from next July, the premier Mike Baird said, after an...
Duterte Harry... The Philippines Enforcer
The newly-elected president of the Philippines has told people to “go ahead and kill” drug addicts. Rodrigo Duterte, formerly a lawyer,...
Playing God with native species
SAFE: The Numbat... but other species are likely to go if the new rules go ahead in Western Australia Western Australia’s government...
Last of the Nazi war trials
“A semblance of justice". The words fall like thunder in the courtroom, where a judge has just used them to describe her verdict. “There...
Rio: Tale of two cities as Olympics loom
Copacabana Beach is an Olympic construction site. The beach volleyball venue is going up, broadcast studios rise on scaffolding above the...
Maggie 2.0: Another woman on top?
It seems like the UK is set to have a woman in charge at No. 10 again. The ruling Tories started voting for a new leader after David...
Chilcot: Discomfort but not jail for Blair
Unholy alliance: Tony Blair and George W Bush at a joint press conference at RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire, in 2001. Blair's lips aren't...
