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On November 8, the American army launched its biggest ever assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja, considered a stronghold for rebel fighters. The US said the raid had been a huge success, killing 1,200 insurgents. Most of the city's 300,000 residents, meanwhile, had fled for their lives.

This wave of global solidarity must not end in a detritus of broken promises. By Timothy Garton Ash

Güney Asya'da yaşanan felaketin hemen ardından Phukhet Adası'a giden, Observer gazetesinin editörü Jason Burke'ün izlenimleri.

Should Turkey be allowed to join the EU? That decision, which is expected today, has divided Europeans, many of whom say it is not part of our continent. But where does Europe end? James Meek finds that cases can be made for many other countries, from Tunisia to Iraq

The European commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, today urged Ankara to "go the extra mile" - including the recognition of Cyprus - to convince sceptics Turkey is ready to become a candidate for EU membership.

Two of Britain's foremost forensic pathologists have dismissed the claim by paramedics that the weapons expert David Kelly may not have died by cutting his wrists. By Vikram Dodd.

Aids worst disaster in history, says UN chief

A position paper of the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London

George Bush's foreign policy is simple: don't mess with America. The same, it appears, applies to economic policy as well. On Friday, the dollar fell sharply against the euro.

Cameraman tells Falluja marines why he broadcast controversial shooting

John le Carré met Yasser Arafat in 1982 while researching a novel. Here he describes the encounter

It is Bush and Blair, not the Iraqi resistance, who fear free elections

US marines waiting to attack the Iraqi city of Falluja were told that they were poised to take part in their biggest urban assault since the recapture of the South Vietnamese city of Hue after the Tet offensive in 1968.

"This country is going so far to the right you are not even going to recognise it," remarked John Mitchell, Richard Nixon's attorney general, in 1970.

Global warming is causing the Arctic ice-cap to melt at such an unprecedented rate that by the summer of 2070 it may have no ice at all, according to the most comprehensive study carried out on global climate change in the region.

More than 100,000 Iraqis have died - and where is our shame and rage?

As soon as British troops are redeployed, the US will again turn the city into a bloodbath

The polls, nearly all showing a dead-even race, fail to account for the new voters, who have no past records. They do not measure those for whom a mobile is their main phone - 6% of the population - who will vote Democrat by a margin of two-and-a-half to one.

Up to a thousand foreign jihadists have infiltrated Iraq, but this is a fraction of al-Qaida's potential strength, a respected military thinktank said yesterday.

As early voting begins, the American papers unveil their endorsements

The Carlyle Group, a large investment firm linked to US and British politicians, has pulled out of a scheme to recover billions of dollars from Iraq, following the publication in the Guardian this week of documents detailing the secret proposals of a consortium with which it was involved.

Eight out of 10 countries favour Kerry for president

Scientists bewildered by sharp rise of CO2 in atmosphere for second year running

President Kennedy was still alive, the cold war was at its height and Harold Macmillan was in Downing Street when Turkey was first told that it could hope one day to be accepted as part of Europe.

Rumors of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president

Speech given by the prime minister on the environment and the 'urgent issue' of climate change

Scientists have developed a jab to stop sheep belches and farts from damaging the environment.

As the godfather of gloom turns 70, Tim de Lisle describes his brush with death - and lists 69 other things you may not know about him

Most senior US military officers now believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale

On Sunday, 13 Iraqis were killed and dozens injured in Baghdad when US helicopters fired on a crowd of unarmed civilians. G2 columnist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, who was injured in the attack, describes the scene of carnage - and reveals just how lucky he was to walk away