The home secretary is seeking to make refugee status temporary. Let’s go in the opposite direction and fight for an essential right, says Zoe Williams ...

I saw how the Greens channelled voters’ anger – and fused it with hope. That’s why they won in Gorton and Denton ...

The Scandal star made history as the first Black woman to lead a TV show in 40 years. Now, she’s back in the hot seat with starry thriller Imperfect Women, and she’s determined to keep shaking up the ...

6.30pm: Good evening and welcome to our continuing coverage of the unrest around England. • David Cameron has pledged that a "fightback is under way" against the rioters and announced that plans are ...

7.00am: The rehearsals are over, the bunting is out, and the tasteful memorabilia is on display. And that's just here at the Guardian, where, as you can imagine, we are gripped with royal wedding ...

Three Asian gang members were jailed for life yesterday for the "savage and barbaric" racially motivated murder of a schoolboy in Glasgow who had been singled out because he was white. Kriss Donald, ...

The British artist Banksy has been criticised by officials in California for the "frivolous abuse" of an elephant which he had painted to look like pink wallpaper. The elephant, Tai, was the main ...

A secret high-level Metropolitan police report has concluded that Muslim officers are more likely to become corrupt than white officers because of their cultural and family backgrounds. The document, ...

The parents of a three-year-old British girl who went missing last night while on a family holiday in Portugal fear she has been abducted. Portuguese police were today searching for Madeline McCann ...

Thousands of people in the UK and around the world could be physically hooked on the antidepressant drug Seroxat, the British sister of Prozac, without knowing it, according to a psychiatrist who was ...

After more than 50 years of heavy smoking and drinking, Princess Margaret's final years were dogged with ill health. The stroke she suffered yesterday afternoon, a day before she died, was her third ...