• Blair WAS involved in Iraq inquiry talks, minister says

  Gordon Brown is to promise that much of the Iraq inquiry will be held in the open in an attempt to avert a damaging Commons...

   

• CIA Looks to Colleges for Future Spies

  To the list of collegiate types — nerds, jocks, Greeks — add one more: spies in training. The government is hoping...

   

• Arrested for asking a policeman for his badge number

  The Guardian has obtained this police footage of Emily Apple and Val Swain being arrested by surveillance officers after...

   

• Agents say DEA is forcing them illegally to work in Afghanistan

  As the Obama administration ramps up the Drug Enforcement Administration’s presence in Afghanistan, some special-agent...

   

• One in six are going hungry

  The UN has warned that the global financial meltdown has pushed the ranks of the world’s hungry to a record 1 billion. UN...