Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, has called for an online bill of rights. Share your thoughts on what should be included, be it preserving anonymity or banning cat videos. Share · Tweet this. Email. Open thread. theguardian.com, Wednesday 12 March ...

The racing driver suffered serious head injuries in a skiing fall in the French Alps at the end of December. Photograph: Mark Thompson/Getty Images Sport. Michael Schumacher's family is confident he will wake up after showing "small, encouraging signs" of ...

Oscar Pistorius leaves court after Darren Fresco testified that the athlete fired his gun through a sunroof and in a Johannesburg restaurant. Photograph: Frans Sello Waga Machate/Frans Sello waga Machate/Demotix/Corbis. Oscar Pistorius clashed angrily ...

Relatives of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 arrive for a meeting with airline officials in Beijing. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images. The Malaysia Airlines flight missing with 239 on board may have turned around just before ...

A third of women in 28 countries in the EU report being the victim of abuse. This is an issue that affects us all. Share · Tweet this. Email. Jane Martinson · The Guardian, Friday 7 March 2014. Jump to comments (…) A girl lights candles during a rally to ...

It is a grim and enraging list of injustice. Sex trafficking. Sex slavery. Domestic slavery. Female genital mutilation. Gang rape. Rape. Prostitution. Forced marriage. Child brides. Pornography. Domestic violence. Acid attacks. Adolescent pregnancy. Barred from ...

Full coverage of day three of the trial of the South African athlete Oscar Pistorius for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home in Pretoria on Valentine's Day last year. Share · Tweet this. Email. Alexandra Topping · theguardian.com ...

Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama traded accusations over the crisis in Ukraine on Tuesday, with the Russian leader seeking to blame the Americans for the growing international standoff as the US president all but accused Putin of breaking international law.

'If we see the case as synecdoche for the way justice fails women there, we have to ask how well are women served here.' Illustration by Belle Mellor. The trial of Oscar Pistorius, who denies the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, is – according to the ...

And so the Dark Knight returns once more. Rocksteady Studios, the London studio responsible for the critically acclaimed Batman Arkham Asylum and Arkham City adventures has announced its third and final title in a series that has redefined the super hero ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin attends a news conference on the Ukraine crisis. Photograph: Alexey Nikolsky/AFP/Getty Images. Vladimir Putin broke his silence over the crisis in Ukraine on Tuesday, addressing a press conference in Moscow that was ...

Samsung insists Ellen DeGeneres's mass celebrity selfie at the Oscars was not an orchestrated marketing stunt, but says it is “delighted” with how it went. The photograph, taken mid-ceremony with a Samsung smartphone, showed the Oscars host surrounded ...

Smoke and fire fill the skyline over Syrian capital Damascus after an Israeli air strike in May last year. Photograph: AP. Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate after accusing Israel of launching an air strike at one of its positions near the border with Syria this week.

Nicolás Maduro: the Venezuelan president has denounced what he calls US propaganda against him. Photograph: Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft Media. The US has ordered three Venezuelan diplomats to leave in reprisal for President Nicolás Maduro's expulsion ...

Oscar Pistorius and photographers in court during a bail hearing last summer. Photograph: Themba Hadebe/AP. Parts of Oscar Pistorius's murder trial can be broadcast live on television using three remote-controlled cameras, a judge has ruled, but the ...

The police said a 45-year-old man was being held on suspicion of attending a terrorist training camp and facilitating terrorism overseas. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA. Three men and a woman have been been arrested on suspicion of terror offences ...

Consumer groups and media watchdogs on Monday expressed “grave concerns” about Netflix's landmark pact with cable giant Comcast for improved internet service. Netflix, the world's largest video on demand service, announced at the weekend that it had ...

el chapo Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, was captured in the beach resort town of Mazatlan early Saturday morning. Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP. On Saturday morning, Mexican soldiers captured the world's most ...

WhatsApp is working on adding free voice-calling to its text messaging app for iPhone and Android, which was recently acquired by Facebook for $19bn. The WhatsApp founder and chief executive, Jan Koum, announced that the new Facebook company was ...

Museveni's signature will please a staunchly conservative local constituency that is vehemently opposed to homosexuality, but one risks alienating western aid donors. Museveni signed the bill during a press conference at State House in Entebbe, close to the ...