Dr Mohini Giri works to rescue Indian widows from living death.… Read the rest

The documents leave uncertain the degree of involvement of Benazir Bhutto but they trace the pervasive role of her husband.… Read the rest

Paddy Doyle has a large collection saved.… Read the rest

Ben Goldacre asks: Where’s your ethics committee now, science boy?… Read the rest

‘Today, the open society is challenged by Islamism’… Read the rest

The New Yorker on Obama in May 2004… Read the rest

Delegates from countries like Bangladesh, Iran, India and Sri Lanka – which have similar female suicide rates – discussed the problem at a conference in Afghanistan in November 2006.… Read the rest

There’s the fun of watching conservative pundits scramble to deny the obvious.… Read the rest

Fundamentalists want to impose a religious identity on all citizens, by virtue of their birth place rather than by choice, thus denying freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of consciousness.… Read the rest

She houses, feeds, clothes and pays for the schooling of orphans in Uganda.… Read the rest

Gay rights are part of the Orientalist project.… Read the rest

Michael Foot, A C Grayling, Tom Paulin, Andrew Motion, Ian Mayes at ceremony to do that.… Read the rest

This is a popular trick of totalitarian movements: Label any critique or call for debate as an insult and punish the offenders. … Read the rest

Ibn Warraq on a one-eyed view of the relationship between the Arab and Western worlds.… Read the rest

The Canadian Islamic Congress has a new partner in its censorship campaign: the state … Read the rest

‘Historians are always making up figures,’ said Lyndall Ryan. Oh really?… Read the rest

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.… Read the rest

AIDS denial plays a corrosive role in the health policies of many countries, but nowhere has the damage been as extreme or as enduring as in South Africa.… Read the rest

Very nasty stuff… Read the rest

The Inca were imperialists too, and the treatment of such peasant children may have served to instil fear and facilitate social control over remote mountain areas.… Read the rest