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9 March 2025

  • A black-and-white image of William Herbert Wallace with a man either side of him.

    The Mouthless Dead by Anthony Quinn review – murder most unsolvable

    The author’s haunting and highly readable fictionalisation of a high-profile killing in prewar Liverpool is rich in legal and procedural detail
  • Romanian guru Gregorian Bivolaru is escorted to a vehicle, after a hearing at the Romanian Police headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. French authorities arrested the leader of a multinational tantric yoga organization Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023 on suspicion of indoctrinating female followers for sexual exploitation. The Romanian guru at the heart of the Atman Yoga Federation was detained during a massive morning police operation across the Paris region. (AP Photo/Marian Ilie)

    The disturbing case of a Tantric yoga guru and his followers

    Under the guise of spiritual leadership, Gregorian Bivolaru allegedly exploited hundreds of people through an international network of yoga camps and retreats. Now he’s awaiting trial, accused of kidnap, trafficking and rape. Here, one of his victims reveals how she broke free
  • Jess Phillips clenches her fists as she speaks to a woman in police uniform with her back to the camera.

    The Observer view: Femicide will only end when we stop letting killers off lightly

    Allowing violent men to plead manslaughter on the basis of a loss of control wrongly limits their liability

8 March 2025

  • Gurney with restraints in a room, seen through glass

    Louisiana death row inmate challenges nitrogen gas as execution method

    Jessie Hoffman Jr, who would become first person state killed this way, says his religious rights would be violated
  • Police at the scene of the incident in Koppal district in the southern state of Karnataka

    Two men arrested in India over alleged rape of Israeli and local woman

    The two women were said to have been stargazing with three male travellers when the incident took place
  • The coroner's office in New Orleans, Louisiana.

    New Orleans couple seeks more damages after receiving only $10,000 for son’s unwanted cremation

    In Theron and Sherry Pfantz’s case, judge found ‘reckless and outrageous misconduct’ by New Orleans coroner’s office

7 March 2025

  • American flag in front of building

    Trump fires two DoJ senior career officials including pardon attorney

    Liz Oyer’s former office leads reviews of clemency requests and makes pardon recommendations to White House
  • Anne Mahrer and Rosmarie Wydler-Wälti talk to reporters

    Switzerland told it must do better on climate after older women’s ECHR win

    Council of Europe says Swiss government failing to respect human rights court’s ruling on emissions

    • Just Stop Oil protesters’ jail sentences shortened after appeal

    • ‘Here you will die’: detainees speak of executions, starvation and beatings at hands of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces

    • Evidence of torture found as detention centre and mass grave discovered outside Khartoum

6 March 2025

  • Large group of people at dusk on brick plaza

    US DoJ to investigate University of California over alleged antisemitism

  • woman wearing glasses, red jacket and blue top sits in front of American flag

    Court rules Trump’s firing of labor board official illegal, saying president is not a king

  • vans and police outside

    Five jailed for far-right plot to overthrow German government

  • Deputy PM Angela Rayner and PM Sir Keir Starmer during the UK-Ireland summit.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says it would be ‘big mistake’ to think Ukraine no longer needs military support because peace deal inevitable – as it happened

  • Mahmood to review Sentencing Council’s powers amid ‘two-tier’ justice row

  • He was tortured in Turkey. Then he faced a US immigration judge who almost never grants asylum

  • The age of extinction
    Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels

  • Ministers criticise ‘two-tier’ sentencing changes in England and Wales

5 March 2025

  • Keir Starmer departs Downing Street for PMQs in London.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer highlights UK’s war record in implicit rebuke to Vance as Lib Dems mock Badenoch for defending him – as it happened

    Interventions follow US vice president’s comments about ‘20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 40 years’
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