A magnificent meditation on loss and political exile as a great Haitian writer returns home

Call-girl withdraws allegations after admitting she was paid to make it all up claims New Jersey Democrat in clear over sex orgy scandal but is still under investigation

Survivors of epidemic, which has killed 8,000 people, condemn ‘immoral’ decision to claim immunity

When the United States and European countries began trading with Japan in the late 1850s, they forced the Japanese authorities to grant their nationals immunity from prosecution in the Japanese courts.

Why go in 2013? To get there before everyone else does

Wyclef Jean spoke passionately about the failures of established aid agencies

Haiti's death toll from Tropical Storm Isaac has jumped to 19, while five people have died in the neighboring Dominican Republic, government officials said.

Tropical Storm Isaac swept across Haiti's southern peninsula early today, dousing a capital city prone to flooding and areas of the poor nation still trying to recover from the terrible 2010 earthquake.

GB captain was disgusted with his hurdles semi-final, he tells Simon Turnbull

Photographer and artist Leah Gordon explores the practice in Haiti of grading skin colour from black to white, referred to as Caste, in a series of new photographs.

The best books are written with an ear to somebody. Treasure Island was written in 1883 for Robert Louis Stevenson's 15-year-old stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. It was intended to be a boy's book in the mould of RM Ballantyne's Coral Island, Captain Marryat's Masterman Ready, and Fennimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, ripping yarns all. It succeeded beyond Stevenson's wildest dreams, becoming a cornerstone of childhood literary memory, indirectly inspiring masterpieces as different as Peter Pan, Swallows and Amazons and High Wind in Jamaica, and directly spawning a dozen forgotten prequels and sequels.

Treasure Island: The Next Generation

He's the Hollywood star turned activist who's riled people throughout his career. And now the British are in his sights

It's 20 minutes' drive from a 20,000-strong Native American reservation, which is now suing brewers and the town's off-licences