The Guardian

The playwright Harold Pinter last night likened George W Bush's administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, saying the US was charging towards world domination while the American public and Britain's "mass-murdering" prime minister sat back and watched. By Angelique Chrisafis and Imogen Tilden

Almost a fifth of all ill health in poor countries and millions of deaths can be attributed to environmental factors, including climate change and pollution, according to a report from the World Bank.

If the EU were abolished, we would have less control over our affairs. There is no refuge in a cultural security blanket

Coverage is 20% below average for time of year ; Destructive cycle could affect Earth's weather. By David Adam

President Bush's multi-billion dollar reconstruction plans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina are being used as "a vast laboratory" for conservative social polices, administration critics claim. By Julian Borger

This is a fiasco without parallel in recent British history. Iraqis must run their country: we've made enough mess of it already. By Simon Jenkins

A group of Church of England bishops issued a report today criticising American foreign policy, the US war on terror and some American Christians' use of biblical texts to support a political agenda in the Middle East, and accuses the US of using illegitimate and dangerous rhetoric. By Stephen Bates

The Serious Fraud Office is expected to launch an investigation into disclosures that the arms company BAE secretly paid more than £1m to the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. By David Leigh and Rob Evans

Work on the world's largest solar energy station, which will produce enough electricity to power 21,000 homes, is to start near the southern Portuguese town of Moura next year. By Giles Tremlett

More than 100 of the world's largest companies have been accused of not facing up to global warming after they snubbed a global survey of corporate attitudes to climate change. By David Adam

Not one penny has been pledged to the United Nations emergency appeal to avert a famine threatening 10 million people in southern Africa, the world body has said. By Andrew Meldrum

An offer of aid from the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, which included two mobile hospital units, 120 rescue and first aid experts and 50 tonnes of food, has been rejected, according to the civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson. By Duncan Campbell

England's soils have been losing carbon at the rate of four million tonnes a year for the past 25 years - losses which will accelerate global warming and which have already offset all the cuts in Britain's industrial carbon emissions between 1990 and 2002, scientists warn today. By Tim Radford

Police clear government centre in show of strength as chaos grows. By Julian Borger

Less than three weeks before world leaders are due to meet in New York for an unprecedented summit aimed at reforming the United Nations and preparing it to face the challenges of the 21st century more effectively, Washington has suddenly proposed hundreds of amendments to the working document.

Bush ends holiday as hundreds feared dead. By Jamie Wilson and Julian Borger.

Some of America's leading scientists have accused Republican politicians of intimidating climate-change experts by placing them under unprecedented scrutiny.

He's a friend of Fidel Castro, a fierce critic of the war in Iraq, and wants to spread revolutionary fervour throughout South America.

Attention turns to Alaska where climate change is transforming the landscape. By Dan Glaister

The battle over the constitution is regarded by most Iraqi women, confined to their homes by the occupation, as an irrelevance. By Haifa Zangana

Britain's top police officer, the Scotland Yard commissioner Sir Ian Blair, attempted to stop an independent external investigation into the shooting of a young Brazilian mistaken for a suicide bomber, it emerged yesterday. By Rosie Cowan, Vikram Dodd and Richard Norton-Taylor

There are always two questions that should be asked about any leaked document. One is what it contains. The other is what the leaker hopes to achieve.

The US has the capability and reasons for an assault - and it is hard to see Britain uninvolved. By Dan Plesch

Siberia feels the heat It's a frozen peat bog the size of France and Germany combined, contains billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas and, for the first time since the ice age, it is melting. By Ian Sample

In Tahoua market, there is no sign that times are hard. Instead, there are piles of red onions, bundles of glistening spinach, and pumpkins sliced into orange shards.

Does the sound of 3,255 people biting into apples count as music? And will it make the food industry change its ways? Matthew Herbert explains all to Pascal Wyse

From the first days of the US-British invasion of Iraq, oil workers have resisted foreign occupation. 15,000 Southern Oil Company workers from the General Union of Oil Employees - Iraq's largest independent union - began a 24-hour striketoday, cutting most oil exports from the south of Iraq.

Fundamentalism is often a form of nationalism in religious disguise. By Karen Armstrong

The G8 must seize the opportunity to address the wider issues at the root of such atrocities. By Robin Cook

George Bush sounds a warning today to those hoping for a significant deal on Africa and climate change at Wednesday's G8 summit, making clear that when he arrives at Gleneagles he will dedicate his efforts to putting America's interests first. By Tania Branigan, Luke Harding and Owen Gibson