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The trial has begun of five men accused of raping and murdering a woman on a bus in Delhi two weeks ago. A sixth suspect will be tried in juvenile court.

Flash mobs of indigenous activists and their supporters, hundreds strong, blocked roads, bridges and railway lines across Canada last week.

Femi Aborisade, the editor of Socialist Worker in Nigeria, has been attacked in his house.

Parliament was about to vote on deep cuts to benefits that millions rely on as Socialist Worker went to press.

Unemployed people will be forced to work or lose their benefits under plans unveiled by Labour’s shadow chancellor Ed Balls.

A government full of millionaires and public school boys wants to scapegoat millions of ordinary people who rely on benefits.

Political pundits are rowing over whether to believe predictions that Britain is about to slip into an unprecedented triple dip recession.

Anti-racists in Cambridge are organising to oppose a protest by the English Defence League (EDL) next month.

Channel 4’s new six part thriller Utopia is set in an unremittingly bleak London, beaten down by recession.

News photographer Don McCullin has covered wars, famines and conflict zones since the early 1960s.

In his latest book, Bad Pharma, journalist and psychiatrist Ben Goldacre narrows his sights on a single powerful target—the global pharmaceuticals industry.

Chasing Ice Photographer James Balog has been using time lapse cameras to record the retreat of 95 percent of the world’s glaciers.