Lavlee Mollik tells Bangladesh newspaper that she wants her daughters to live and be educated in Australia The mother of conjoined Bangladeshi twins who were separated in an operation in Melbourne has said she does not want custody of the daughters she gave up for adoption and wants them to have new ...

To mark World Aids Day, and a 10-year project with the Guardian, photographer Gideon Mendel travels to Kenya to ask young people with HIV what it means to them Gideon Mendel Chris Fenn

Swedish soprano whose perceptive singing and vivid acting made her a great heroine in operas by Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and Janacek One of the most perceptive and admired sopranos of the postwar era, Elisabeth Söderström, who has died aged 82, had a lengthy career that carried on into the 1990s, ...

Originally published on 21 November 1945 NUREMBERG, NOVEMBER 20. When Lord Justice Lawrence, British President of the International Tribunal, opened the great Nuremberg war trial this morning he called it unique in the history of the jurisprudence of the world, and on that note proceedings are begun ...

Commodities soared and emerging markets took off, but the average small investor missed out, says Patrick Collinson It invests in goldmines – and it became a goldmine. Every £1,000 invested in BlackRock Gold & General at the beginning of the decade was worth £7,846 10 years later, closely followed ...

As a Belgian, I am shocked by the disinformation around the candidacy and person of Mr Van Rompuy, especially by the British tabloids (The great EU stitch-up, 20 November). Their comments are an insult. Van Rompuy is not to be an executive president like the US president; he is the chairman, a consensus-builder ...

The real challenge to the biblical literalism held dear by creationists is in the Bible itself An academic conference in Louisville, Kentucky, provided me with an opportunity to visit the Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg with a friend who is also an Anglican priest. Opened in 2007, this $25m museum's ...

Zoe Williams (Yes, Clapham Junction is that bad, 19 November) is unfair. The views from this rooftop-level station are inspiring, and I once saw a glorious sunset from the footbridge. True, it does only have one loo, the waiting rooms are long gone, and the platform 13 buffet has lost its tables and ...

Ineluctably, a worm is turning deep inside President Barack Obama's policy of constructive engagement. Mr Obama needs something, somewhere to go right. He has filled audiences in Berlin and Cairo with hope. He has deployed his rich family history to shine a beam on all manner of problems. But there ...

The FTSE 100 fell and the banks collapsed. But as Patrick Collinson reports, the only shares that didn't go up in smoke were tobacco companies In a decade dominated by the rise of China, the expansion of the internet and the proliferation of mobile phones, the best stockmarket investment was – cigarettes. ...