After five years of fighting for her right to travel abroad, Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez’s arrival in Brazil today was bittersweet.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the need to keep some information out of the public domain

Welshman promises to silence “disrespectful”  American – but the odds are heavily against him

The man who pays his way

Lawyer claims Australian-born suspected Mossad spy was considering plea bargain

The Australian Mossad agent's name was so secret that even his jailers didn't know it. Now the Israeli government is trying to cover up his true identity

Comment suggested something violent might happen at high school

Thousands of false identities used in elaborate scam

Q I am flying to deepest Finland from Heathrow, with a five-and-a-half-hour stopover in Helsinki. Is this enough time for sightseeing or am I doomed to wander the corridors and gift shops waiting for the hours to tick by?

Alastair Kleissner, South Wales

First produced in 1931, a couple of years before Hitler came to power, Carl Zuckmayer's comedy pokes risky, spirited and oddly charming fun at the German inclination towards militaristic conformity.

Q&A: Travel unravelled

News International settles hacking claims with officials close to Blair government

Forward joins on loan from Sporting Kansas City

The number of women suspected of being trafficked to perform housework in embassies and private houses in Britain has increased amid warnings that vulnerable workers have been denied an escape route from domestic servitude by new immigration rules.