At last winds of change blow through the Vatican

Greatest weakness may have been loyalty to the church’s old clandestine self-protective culture

No one will be punished for the deaths at Stafford – it was the fault of 'the culture'. And those in charge at the time have been... promoted

David Beckham's move to France is the latest of his self-promoting gestures. Or is it the engaging act of a thoroughly nice guy?

The creator of Comic Relief hopes that in another quarter of a century it may not be necessary. Until then, it's red noses all round. Paul Vallely meets Richard Curtis

'For a self-styled visionary Mr Gove demonstrates a paucity of imagination

The Independent's campaign has raised over £225,000. But as the latest news makes clear, the problems facing children in the CAR have not gone away

Alarming as the hostage crisis in Algeria is, memories of Iraq teach us that this is no reason to make an already volatile area more unstable

From his own relatives to BBC executives and charities, those who could have stopped the abuse had incentives not to ask questions