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Bubonic plague outbreak feared in central Asia 27 Aug 2013 | 06:48 pm

Health officials on alert after teenager who ate infected barbecued marmot dies and three others are admitted to hospital Health officials fear an outbreak of bubonic plague in central Asia after a t...

Jamie Oliver, you haven't tasted real poverty. Cut out the tutting | Alex Andreou 27 Aug 2013 | 06:47 pm

Living in poverty means a world of no, so you are grateful for ready meals or a large TV. Jamie's judgments take the biscuit I like Jamie Oliver, on the whole. Yes, occasionally I find him annoying, ...

David Cameron recalls parliament over Syria crisis 27 Aug 2013 | 05:08 pm

Prime minister tweets that MPs will return on Thursday to debate alleged use of chemical weapons by Assad regime MPs are to be recalled from their summer break to vote on whether Britain should take ...

Gibraltar leader flies to UK as Spanish mayor posts 'invasion' image 27 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm

Mayor of Callosa de Segura publishes mock-up photo on Facebook showing Spanish troops on Rock Gibraltar's chief minister, Fabian Picardo, has flown to London for talks with the prime minister and for...

Martin Luther King: the speech - interactive 27 Aug 2013 | 04:13 pm

Fifty years after Martin Luther King delivered his 'I have a dream' speech at the march on Washington of 28 August 1963, Gary Younge explores a defining moment in civil rights history that changed Ame...

Ofsted and council staff criticised for failings after rape of toddler at nursery 27 Aug 2013 | 04:07 pm

Birmingham council and Ofsted inspectors missed pointers that should have raised alarm about Paul Wilson, report finds A review into the rape of a toddler by a paedophile nursery worker has criticise...

Man killed in brawl at fairground 27 Aug 2013 | 03:37 pm

Police arrest six people after fight at Southall Park in London leaves one man dead and two injured A man in his 20s has been murdered and two others stabbed in a mass brawl at a fairground. The fig...

Paedophile whose victim was described as predatory to have sentence reviewed 27 Aug 2013 | 02:56 pm

Attorney general refers Neil Wilson's sentence of 12 months' jail suspended for two years to court of appeal to decide if it is unduly lenient A convicted paedophile who escaped jail after his 13-yea...

Syria crisis: UK making contingency plans for military intervention - live updates 27 Aug 2013 | 02:46 pm

Follow the day's events as they unfold Peter Walker Andrew Sparrow

Badger cull: environment secretary defends move on 'dark day' 27 Aug 2013 | 02:25 pm

Cull necessary as workable vaccine not ready, says Owen Paterson, amid protests as pilot schemes get under way in Gloucestershire and Somerset Two pilot culls to kill up to 5,000 badgers in Glouceste...

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