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December 14 2003: Key images of the arrest of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Saddam's new look Image of captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein displayed at a news conference in Baghdad. 15.12.03: Saddam the prisoner More pictures from the Iraq conflict  Going underground In a small orange grove on a farm near the village of Adwar, US soldiers pulled back a tarpaulin to discover the entrance to Saddam Hussein's bolthole. [Read More]

Teachers and their supporters hold signs, chant and rally the crowd on 1 November in Portland, Oregon. Photograph: Claire Rush/APTeachers and their supporters hold signs, chant and rally the crowd on 1 November in Portland, Oregon. Photograph: Claire Rush/APUS unionsAbout 45,000 Portland students out of class as union follows lead of UAW and WGA in action over pay and conditions Roughly 45,000 students have been out of class in the Portland public school district since Wednesday, when the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT) kicked off its first-ever strike, enlivening dozens of locations in the city with picket lines. [Read More]

Gawker Media This article is more than 8 years oldGawker's latest privacy scandal poses dilemma in $100m Hulk Hogan lawsuitThis article is more than 8 years oldNick Denton, who is named in a suit over a sex tape of Hogan posted by Gawker, will have a harder time under questioning after taking down a post last week The latest scandal to hit Gawker Media has presented the company with another dilemma as it prepares to enter the ring with professional wrestler Hulk Hogan in a $100m personal injury case, experts say. [Read More]

Bean-tastic: Felicity Cloake’s perfect gigantes. Photograph: Robert Billington/The Guardian. Food stylist: Laurie Perry.View image in fullscreenBean-tastic: Felicity Cloake’s perfect gigantes. Photograph: Robert Billington/The Guardian. Food stylist: Laurie Perry.How to cook the perfect ...BeansBaked beans done the Greek way, using the fattest butter beans you can find Gigantes plaki, or (very) big baked beans, occupy a similarly beloved place in the Greek heart to our own baked beans. However, though they are also available in tins, they’re rather more likely to be made from scratch. [Read More]

Anne Perry: ‘It is vital for me to go on exploring moral matters’. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/The GuardianAnne Perry: ‘It is vital for me to go on exploring moral matters’. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/The GuardianCrime fictionInterview‘I was guilty. I did my time’: Anne Perry, the novelist whose past caught up with herAngela NeustatterAnne Perry is a bestselling novelist - and a convicted killer whose past caught up with her unexpectedly. Angela Neustatter meets her'Why can't I be judged for who I am now, not what I was then? [Read More]

BooksReviewA fascinating study of the tech giant and its symbiotic relationship with the Chinese government Five years ago, the Chinese tech company Tencent overtook Facebook to become the fifth largest company in the world. Though it’s still an unfamiliar name to many in the west, Tencent is a major stakeholder in tech companies and products including Spotify, Tesla, Snapchat, Monzo and Reddit, as well as the makers of video games such as Fortnite, League of Legends, Clash of Clans, and Call of Duty. [Read More]

TheatreReviewWyndham’s theatre, London Patrick Marber directs Tom Stoppard’s sweeping story of a Jewish family in Vienna across six decades In 2003, Tom Stoppard was asked if he would ever write a “Jewish play”. “Absolutely,” he answered, though he was more ambivalent about basing it on his personal story. Only a decade earlier, he had found out he was fully Jewish and that many of his Czech family had died in Nazi concentration camps. [Read More]

The life of Stephen Hawking – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The world-renowned British physicist has died aged 76. Here are images from his extraordinary life and times Michael Williams Main image: Professor Stephen Hawking wrote the bestseller A Brief History of Time. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian Wed 14 Mar 2018 04.08 GMT Last modified on Wed 14 Mar 2018 13. [Read More]

The ObserverFictionReviewSet in 1980s San Francisco, this evocative novel views disappearances in a wealthy suburb through the uncertain prism of adolescence As 13-year-olds in 1980s San Francisco, Eulabee and her girlfriends own the streets of their affluent, coastal neighbourhood. Sea Cliff is famed for its unbroken views of the Golden Gate Bridge, and to keep it that way, everything ugly is hidden. Even so, menace swirls with the chilly fog that rolls in: Eulabee’s art-dealer father bought their house on the cheap, after the previous owners’ sons – the evocatively known “Prospero boys” – careened off the rails; one of her friends, Faith, is named after the child her parents lost before adopting her; and of course there are the rocks and the crashing waves, which the girls have learned to navigate by timing the tides. [Read More]

A spotter's guide to broad-leaved trees Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email How to identify broad-leaved trees and what makes them distinctive Stephen Moss / Illustrations by Hennie Haworth @stephenmoss_tv Fri 8 Apr 2011 19.08 EDT Hazel The long, drooping catkins of the hazel are one of the earliest signs of spring, appearing in January or February. [Read More]