The Guardian:
Security force costing $1bn a year has not defeated Rwandan Hutu rebels or halted plunder of lucrative minerals, experts findThe world's biggest UN peacekeeping mission has been branded a failure by experts who say it is fuel (Read More)
The Guardian:
Members of the student union have fought to block a society that simply strives to tackle the male issues our society ignoresI am the founder and chair of the UK's first ever university MENS society. In our successful attempt (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The liberty-security balance is centuries old. On the DNA database, I think we're getting it rightAs Willie Whitelaw once noted, balancing the rights of the individual against the rights of society as a whole is one of the mo (Read More)
Comment - Columnists - Guest Contributors:
If the civil libertarians, the conspiracy theorists and the Conservatives had their way, Abdul Azad would probably never have been caught. Azad was convicted of a brutal stranger rape in Stafford in July 2005 after fragments (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Leicester Square, LondonHow does one make a PG-certificate film about the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl? Director Peter Jackson provides an answer of sorts with The Lovely Bones, which leaves the murder unseen and the (Read More)
The Guardian:
Clever clogs, vicious songs, deja vu and beard contestsSo we're pondering genius today. Of course tons of fevered academic research has been devoted, over the years, to the subject of "What is a genius (and could I be one)?"I (Read More)
The Guardian:
A new report finds the UK was complicit in sickening acts by Pakistan's ISI. The government so far seems unmovedToday sees the release by Human Rights Watch (HRW) of a searing exposé of the evidence against the British govern (Read More)
Fox News:
A 14-year-old Alabama girl might have helped arrange the gang rape of her ninth-grade classmate and could face charges as an accomplice based on her comments in a televised interview, a district attorney said. (Read More)
New York Times:
A New York Supreme Court justice said he does not want William McCaffrey, 32, “to have to wait any longer than is absolutely necessary for finality in this case.”
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The Guardian:
Research into song lyrics about sexual violence reveals that they both support and empower womenBack in 1962, the Crystals released a song called He Hit Me (And it Felt like a Kiss). "If he didn't care for me," warbled one of (Read More)
Reuters: International News:
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The world's first permanent war crimes court opens its second trial on Tuesday when two Congolese warlords face charges they ordered subordinates to attack civilians, rape women and enlist child soldiers (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The Sikhs who join in the hatred of Muslims are deluded if they expect to avoid racial exclusionRajinder Singh, a British Sikh with an extreme dislike of Muslims, is, according to the BNP, "the kind of immigrant you want if y (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
• Support groups explore masculinity as a concept• Critics claim societies a front for 'macho activities'After decades of feminism, equal rights and "women-only" support networks, a lower, deeper voice is attempting to make i (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
New book by Patrizia D'Addario adds lesbian dimension to alleged escapades at home of Italian prime ministerThe call girl who says she spent the night with Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has claimed she became the (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Some of today's comics are guilty not so much of being offensive, but of just not being clever, funny or flexible enough to do their jobs without being offensiveWhen did British comedians get so whiney? It's getting difficult (Read More)