World view: Libya: are the rules of revolution changing again?
"Brother Colonel" Muammar Gaddafi's time is up: the rebels are now in the heart of Libya's capital, Tripoli.
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Time to investigate George Bush's role as a sleeper
In spy talk, a "sleeper" is somebody who lives his life in the target country, keeping his nose clean and climbing up the ranks of the local hierarchy, until he reaches a position in which he can b
Equal-opportunity rioting
Last week's riots in England have rocked that nation and caused much soul searching.
Mubarak's trial is about a new Egypt
The mother of all conspiracy theories
Three pieces about Muslims in the same paper on the same day (The Independent, July 25).
Murdoch empire in retreat
Panic makes people stupid.
What of Sudan after breakaway of oil-rich south?
The flags have been waved, the anthem has been sung, and the new currency will be in circulation next week: the Republic of South Sudan has been launched, and is off to who knows where?
World view: Tolerance - or religious tourism?
Gandhi, born a Hindu, once said: "I am also a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist and a Jew."
World view: A conspiracy most foul
Here we go again. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, a United Nations-backed body investigating the killing of Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005, has accused four people of his murder.
Deaths could lead to civil war
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men," growled Charles de Gaulle, but French history would have been very different if he had died in 1940 (no Free French government, probably a Communist