The Guardian

This Iraqi Kidnapping has the Mark of an Undercover Police Operation

he United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, declared explicitly for the first time last night that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal.

Article on child born amid 1991 Gulf war moves Mercury Prize nominee Robert Wyatt and partner Alfreda Benge to depict nightmare in song

The Washington neocons' commitment to the war on terror evaporates in Chechnya, whose cause they have made their own

Putin faces critical test to save pupils as Chechen conflict spreads

It seems as if we have spent the summer huddled under umbrellas whingeing about the weather while meteorologists chide us that it is really not so bad. But moan at will because it is now official: we have been enduring the wettest summer for nearly half a century.

It will Take More than a Few Extra Pounds on our Gas Bills to make us do Something about Global Warming

George Bush stood accused of appropriating the Olympic movement for political means last night, amid reports he was planning to visit Athens later this week to watch some sporting events, including a potential gold-medal winning bid by the Iraqi football team.

Two hours was all it took to turn a pretty Cornish village into a riverbed. As police divers searched wrecked cars and the smashed stone houses that a freak wall of floodwater had tossed and torn with indifferent cruelty, the residents of Boscastle yesterday began to put nature back in its place.

In a dirty alley on the outskirts of the old city of Najaf yesterday stood a crowd of militia fighters - the newest volunteer among them a bright young biology student called Ali.

The monsoon flood which hit London and parts of southern England on Tuesday, causing sewers to overflow and thousands of dead fish to float down the Thames, was a salutary reminder of the effects of worldwide climate change in years to come.

The grim succession of news from Iraq makes the belief that security would improve, however slowly, after the handover to an interim administration, seem more than ever misplaced.

Atmosferde 55 milyon yıldır olmadığı kadar çok karbondioksit gazı var; bütün gezegendeki buzları eritip Londra, New York, ve New Orleans gibi şehirleri sular altına almaya yetecek kadar.

The greatest military misadventure in American history until Iraq was the war in Vietnam.

WMD was the rationale for invading Iraq. But what was really driving the US were fears over oil and the future of the dollar

There is evidence of foreign intelligence backing for the 9/11 hijackers.Why is the US government so keen to cover it up?

At the end of the second world war, I was the director for overall effects of the United States strategic bombing survey - USBUS, as it was known. I led a large professional economic staff in assessment of the industrial and military effects of the bombing of Germany.

There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than for 55m years, enough to melt all the ice on the planet and submerge cities like London, New York and New Orleans, Sir David King, the government's chief scientific adviser has warned.

Bangkok conference forced to cancel meetings and retract papers after authors stopped from attending

Lila Lipscomb believed in Bush's case for war in Iraq. But when her son died in action, her faith in the American way was shattered. Emma Brockes meets the Michigan mother at the heart of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11"

The First Bush and his Gulf War Paved the Way for the Age of Terror

We need to face up to the crisis in energy consumption. Michael Meacher finds some solutions in The End of Oil by Paul Roberts

The choice now in Iraq for the occupying states is whether to move quickly towards a negotiated withdrawal and free elections - or be drawn ever deeper into a bloody pacification war against the majority of the Iraqi people.

Ron Oxburgh is chipping away at the fossilised thinking that cost Shell its reputation. David Adam meets the geologist in a big business hotseat

The World has Focused on US Soldiers' Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners. But the Leaked Inquiry Reveals Incompetence Worthy of Joseph Heller's Novel

As MPs warn of a crisis advertisers keep parents in the dark

Survivors describe wedding massacre as generals refuse to apologise

Hostilities Force Bush into Deep Hole

This is a Hollywood blockbuster, which in the tradition of the disaster movie plays ruthlessly on the irrational fears of the average American. It also has unexpectedly strong political content, and a scanty relationship with scientific fact.

The West is losing the War on Terror on a Global Scale