The Internet is the front line in the war against extremism

Experts are trying to pre-empt terrorism by bombarding jihadist websites with messages

Proposals to limit surgery visits is ‘shocking and short-sighted’, say critics

Idea on website 'breaches National Health Service principle of treatment based on clinical need'

Haven: the Cayman Islands

IoS special report Met police call for criminal inquiry into former diplomat's Cayman Islands rule

Ofsted came in for criticism from MPs for a ‘tick-box approach’ to inspecting children’s care homes

Study urges councils to penalise children's homes if youngsters repeatedly abscond

The UK is ‘committed to increasing renewables’ says Ed Davey

The proposal marks a shift in the UK's position after internal coalition wrangling over climate change

Dianne Illingworth in Newcastle upon Tyne yesterday: ‘My health is poor, and I can’t walk far’

Woman's kidney transplant is cancelled as minister refuses to fund anti-rejection Soliris

Engaging though Andrew Mitchell is on foreign aid and world affairs, it is ‘hard to ignore that gate-shaped elephant in the room’

In his first interview since 'plebgate', the former Chief Whip opens up just enough to concede that, in politics, you have to take the rough with the smooth, even if that means leaving a job you love

Relishing the challenge: Najmaldin Karim in his Kirkuk office

Voices The governor of Kirkuk - one of Iraq's most violent but successful provinces - fears the worst for his country

Sarah McClay, who died on Friday after being mauled by a tiger at South Lakes Wild Animal Park

Zoo owner tells of frantic attempt at rescue as police investigate human error

Eric Schmidt speaking at Hay-on-Wye yesterday

Britain should stop complaining and change its tax laws, Google chief Eric Schmidt tells Hay festival audience

The Co-op bank reported a loss of £674m for 2012

Bank seeks fresh faces at the top and stops lending to new business customers as spectre of taxpayer bailout looms

In danger: the red squirrel

Voices A 60 per cent decline in our national species should alarm us, yet, says Philip Hoare, few of us act. But to mind more about animals would reflect well on society

The failed satellite, launched by Nasa in 2006, was designed to last 10 years

Device used to track severe weather out of action on eve of Atlantic hurricane season

People from Qusair gather near houses destroyed by a Syrian forces air strike last week.

With only days before sanctions expire, foreign ministers argue over sending weapons to rebels

The HTC First will not launch in Europe this summer
Drought and water demands have depleted the Ogallala, the aquifer that has sustained the Great Plains since the arrival of the early pioneers

Voices The destructive power of tornadoes will be as nothing once Great Plains' vast underground water reserve dries up

Future leaders? Boys make their way to classes at Eton College
Mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto
Toru Hashimoto had earlier caused controversy by defending soldiers' use of sex slaves during World War II
A villager collects water in drought-ridden Tianlin county, China
Scientists warn that united action is needed to protect humanity's most vital resource
Lewis Birt, a Shefford Tory councillor, has little respect for any of Westminster's 'rabid mob'
Deep in Tory heartland, party activists are not happy with their leader, his friends or many of his policies
Emmanuelle Seigner and Roman Polanski kiss at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday

The director's new film, 'Venus in Fur', is one of the raciest on offer

Coles finds himself having to be an at-times uncomfortably public defender of the Church. On the matter of homosexuality he says: 'We'll get there in the end.'

The nation’s most pop-culture-friendly priest, on the Church, homosexuality – and how he feels about celibacy

Guard of honour: Suffragettes flank Emily Wilding Davison’s coffin on 14 June 1913

Voices A century on, the battle for equality still rages, says Jessica Haynes, the writer of a new sitcom

Mickey Mouse may not even have been a Walt creation

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Devastated: Ethnic violence, from the burning of houses to horrific executions, has spread across Burma in a racial backlash against Muslims

A dejected Hartley leaves the pitch

Northampton Saints captain sent off after 'cheat' jibe in showpiece final defeat to Leicester Tigers

Freshen up: A serrano ham and melon salad alongside limeade with mint

Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

The cliffs of Stora Dimun are home to puffins

Stranded between Iceland and Norway, these tiny islands are the perfect escape

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Andrew Mitchell: 'It's no good feeling hard done by'

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Special report: Met police call for criminal inquiry into former diplomat's Cayman Islands rule
Fallen angel: Winona Ryder on bouncing back from her decade in the wilderness

Fallen angel: Winona Ryder bounces back

She owned the 1990s... but then she disappeared. Now, Ms Ryder is back with quite the bang in her latest role, as the wife of a notorious real-life Mob hitman.
Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival

Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival

The director's new film, 'Venus in Fur', is one of the raciest on offer
Rev Richard Coles: 'I don’t have any concerns that God is cross with me for being gay and eventually the Church won’t either'

Rev Richard Coles on the Church and homosexuality

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Patrick Cockburn: Civil war looms in Iraq

The governor of Kirkuk - one of the country's most violent but successful provinces - fears the worst
Written on the body: Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials

Written on the body

Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials
Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

The IoS marks the sixtieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reaching the peak of the highest mountain on Earth
A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

Rupert Cornwell: A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

The destructive power of tornadoes will be as nothing once the Great Plains' vast underground water reserve dries up
Every creature's needless death diminshes us all

Philip Hoare: Every creature's needless death diminishes us all

A 60 per cent decline in our national species should alarm us, yet few of us act. But to mind more about animals would reflect well on society
Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground - and the monks at the heart of it

Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground

Six years ago, the world cheered the monks behind Burma’s Saffron Revolution. Now, a horrific new eruption of religious slaughter is being blamed on a 'Buddhist Bin Laden'.
Let's take it outside: Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

Let's take it outside: Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

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The Calvin report

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10 big questions for the British & Irish Lions to answer

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