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'Let's go Bulworth...': If Barack Obama wants to act like a cinema president, which films should he copy?

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:35:28 GMT

In the 1998 movie Bulworth Warren Beatty played a senator who, about to lose an election, arranges – or tries to – his own assassination. Then, knowing he was soon to be dead both politically and physically, Beatty’s character begins to do the last thing you’re supposed to do in politics: speak his mind, often in raps.

Hezbollah takes fight to anti-Assad rebels as Syria’s war spills into Lebanon

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:20:08 GMT

Hezbollah launched a major offensive in support of the Assad regime today, with fighters from the Lebanese militant group playing their most significant role yet in Syria’s two-year-old civil war.

Hezbollah takes fight to rebels as Syria’s war spills into Lebanon

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:20:08 GMT

Hezbollah launched a major offensive in support of the Assad regime today, with fighters from the Lebanese militant group playing their most significant role yet in Syria’s two-year-old civil war.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen injures back falling into pool

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:09:42 GMT

The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has broken a bone in her lower spine by falling into an empty swimming pool at her mansion near Paris.

Analysis: West learns to jaw not war on Syria as the country's civil war destabilises the region

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:05:46 GMT

Sunday’s reports that the Syrian conflict was spilling over into Lebanon can be taken as further evidence that the sectarian civil war is destabilising the region. There are also signs that the unending strife is pushing the two players who really matter, America and Russia, towards trying for negotiations and a ceasefire based on the Geneva Accord signed last June.

Keep the change, say Germans alarmed by European plan to scrap copper coins

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:04:51 GMT

Desperate to save pennies as the economic crisis continues to bite, the European Union is mulling over phasing out one and two cent coins after it emerged that they cost more than their face value to mint.

Struggling with urban decay, Detroit now has a mountain of unwanted coke

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:00:08 GMT

The vistas in struggling Detroit are not always beautiful. Once-grand commercial buildings stand open to the winds while wild grasses strangle those swathes of the city where abandoned homes have been razed. And now residents must deal with an enormous and fast-growing mountain of pitch-black coke.

Have shock jocks gone too far?

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:56:51 GMT

When Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut, he probably thought it was just another incendiary remark: the latest in a four-decade career full of – and, arguably, built on – incendiary remarks.

British man arrested after children found with slit throats in France

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:09:37 GMT

The Foreign Office said today it is 'urgently' investigating reports that a British man is being questioned on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two children.

Briton arrested after children's throats slit in France

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:09:37 GMT

The Foreign Office said today it is 'urgently' investigating reports that a British Man is being questioned on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two children.

British man arrested after children's throats slit in France

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:09:37 GMT

The Foreign Office said today it is 'urgently' investigating reports that a British man is being questioned on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two children.

Guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison sells for $400k

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:51:30 GMT

A guitar played by Beatles pair John Lennon and George Harrison sold for 408,000 US dollars (£269,000) at a New York auction today.

US college student being held hostage was shot and killed by police officer

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:35:47 GMT

A US college student being held hostage in her home by an armed man was shot and killed by a police officer.

Single ticket scoops $590m jackpot in Florida lottery

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:32:26 GMT

A single ticket in Florida has matched all the numbers to win the highest Powerball lottery jackpot in history at an estimated 590.5 million dollars (£389.2m), officials said today.

Chloe Johnson death: Family of five-year-old British girl who died in a pool at in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort 'angry' that more wasn't done to save her

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:18:44 GMT

The family of a five-year-old British girl who died in a swimming pool in Egypt say they are "angry" that more was not done to save her.

French president Francois Hollande signs gay marriage and same-sex adoption into law despite national protests

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:17:59 GMT

After months of protests and fiery debate, the French President has legalised gay marriage and same-sex adoption.

Saudi Arabian woman makes history having successfully scaled Mount Everest

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:17:22 GMT

Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain.

North Korea launches missiles into eastern waters, according to the South

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:15:05 GMT

North Korea has launched three missiles into the sea off its east coast, reheating simmering tensions and prompting mild rebukes from the US and UK.

Up to 60 people injured after elderly driver ploughs into Virginia parade

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:14:43 GMT

Up to 60 people were injured when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town.

Imran Khan blames rival for murder of politician

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:08:32 GMT

Imran Khan today blamed a political rival based in Britain for the murder of a politician from his own party who was shot dead outside her house in Karachi on Saturday night.

Senior member of Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party assassinated as row over Pakistan election vote rigging continues

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:08:32 GMT

Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party.

Gunman kills senior member of Imran Khan's political party as row over Pakistan election vote rigging continues

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:08:32 GMT

Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party.

Ah, Mr Fogle, we've been expecting you: The case of the hapless wig-wearing American diplomat expelled from Moscow is not as simple as it first seemed

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:00:22 GMT

In the long and sinuous history of international espionage, the one thing you can absolutely rely on is that very little is as it first appears. And so it is with Ryan Christopher Fogle, third secretary in the political department of the US Embassy in Moscow, comedy wig owner, and, apparently, a man who thinks it wise to hang around near park entrances at midnight with €100,000 (£85,000) in cash about his person.

Afghans block law protecting women’s rights

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:00:21 GMT

Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law that aims to protect women’s freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage.

B-list scandals begin to take the shine off Barack Obama's halo

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:00:00 GMT

Washington is in full scandal mode, and we'd almost forgotten what it was like. A president besieged, congressional hearings, subpoenas flying, an FBI investigation, dark murmurings about "what did he know and when did he know it", and the familiar admonition that what matters is not the crime but the cover-up. On the farthest fringes, even the dread word "impeachment" is to be heard. Throw in a special prosecutor, and the show would be complete.