-
Violence and abuse rife in food factories
Supermarket suppliers under fire as one-fifth of workers interviewed for inquiry report being pushed or hit
-
Greece debt: EU agrees bailout deal
Front page
-
Unite members canvass for Labour in key marginal seats
Political director Charlie Whelan says phone bank operation is largest ever undertaken by a British union
Top stories p2
-
Messy, funny and a little bit irritating: Samantha Cameron on 'the Dave I fell in love with'
Wife of Conservative leader David Cameron steps out of the shadows and firmly into the spotlight
Top stories p3
-
BNP 'whites-only' membership rules outlawed
Judge agrees with human rights watchdog that British National party's rewritten criteria for joining are still racist
-
Nick Griffin welcomes decision not to ban BNP teachers
Party leader accuses education officials of taking no action against teachers promoting leftwing politics
-
Websites told to remove material promoting self-harm
Doctors call for policing of internet as numbers admitted to hospital due to self-harm rise
UK news p4
-
Channel surfer: Christine Bleakley water-skis to France
TV presenter overcomes childhood fear of water and a wind chill below freezing to raise £250,000 for charity
-
MEP defects to Liberal Democrats after Tory links with extremists
Edward McMillan-Scott tells David Cameron he is leaving party because it propagates 'extremism abroad'
-
BBC unveils slimmed-down World Cup squad of 295 (plus a flat-pack studio)
UK news p5
-
Gordon Brown misses his Rosebud moment as publisher shelves study
Suzie Mackenzie shadowed PM for most of his period in No 10 but believed her book should also cover election
-
Nick Clegg calls for 10% bank tax to rescue recession victims
Lib Dem leader condemns bankers as 'Scargills in pinstripes' and says electorate, not him, will decide who is next PM
-
Nick Clegg interview: 'Brown's in denial – almost delusional'
Lib Dem leader says journalists need to look beyond hung parliament, as it will be clear who voters want
Top stories p6
-
View from the marginals: volunteer Davids get set to do battle with well-heeled Goliaths
If Labour has given up on some of its marginal seats, as some say, then nobody has told Edgbaston
Top stories p7
-
Labour peer Lady Uddin will not face prosecution over expenses
Labour peer was investigated over claims that she was paid expenses on a flat in Kent that had been unoccupied for years
-
British Airways strike: Passengers face seven days of walkouts
-
David Askew death: Police say council was too slow to help
Manchester man with learning difficulties who collapsed after prolonged harassment 'should have been re-housed'
UK news p8
-
Royal Mail may face fines over rigged test deliveries
Postal watchdog says some managers may have received bonuses based on phoney mail delivery times
-
Gloucestershire's annual cheese rolling cancelled due to health and safety fears
-
Google news tax could boost local papers, report says
Commission of inquiry calls for levies to promote new media, warning that too few interests control too many outlets
UK news p9
-
Khyra Ishaq: Jail for couple who starved the seven-year-old to death
Her mother, Angela Gordon, will serve at least 15 years and stepfather, Junaid Abuhamza, seven and a half years
-
No bugs were harmed in the media reporting of infested trains
UK news p12
-
People's army takes over Hadrian's wall in light spectacular
-
EasyJet and Ryanair top complaints league
Cancellations and missing bags dominate mailbox
Lib Dems say standards are falling with prices
UK news p13
-
'I'm not a slave, I just can't speak English' – life in the meat industry
Report revealing 'mistreatment and exploitation' of workers could be describing conditions in developing countries
UK news p14
-
EHRC food factories report: Perfect storm has led to a race to the bottom
-
Equality and Human Rights Commission hit by new resignation
Tracy Allisonn quits following critical reports about 'patently flawed' formation of government watchdog
UK news p15
-
Red Road deaths: a tragedy of asylum, mental health and Russian intrigue
The deaths of a Russian family at Glasgow's Red Road flats has stirred up accusations of a 'barbaric' UK asylum system
UK news p17
-
Simon Hoggart's week: EU? It's just an abusive imps' tea party
Even Ukip does not deserve to be punished for knockabout abuse
UK news p18
-
Pope is 'shocked' to hear of abuse case in Munich while he was archbishop
Catholic church investigates 170 allegations in Germany; justice minister cites Vatican 'wall of silence' set up by Benedict
-
For flock's sake: keep homilies to eight minutes, Vatican tells clergy
Catholic prelate says priests and deacons should keep sermons brief and maintain eye contact to keep flock well-tended
-
9/11 rescue workers face court battle to pay for healthcare
Clean-up crews given compensation ultimatum as only 10,000 of 70,000 will be covered by $657m payout
International p19
-
US to lobby for endangered species listing for polar bear
International p20
-
Tiger Woods' wife was barred from ambulance, highway patrol files show
Records compiled from investigations after golfer's car crash raise fresh questions about his account to journalists
-
Cafe con cookie? Spanish city in a frap over lack of Starbucks
-
Colombians outraged by narco-soaps glamorising cartels
New TV series Rosario Tijeras, which features sexy assassins and drug baron heroes, sparks moral outcry in Colombia
International p21
-
Eleven rare Siberian tigers die at struggling Chinese zoo
Animals at Shenyang Forest zoo reportedly starved to death after being fed only chicken bones
-
Somali rebels attack Mogadishu for third day
Government tells residents to leave battle zone as al-Shabaab militia takes positions near presidential palace
-
Lahore bombing is Pakistan's bloodiest this year
Dozens killed as two suicide bombers try to blow up military convoy passing busy market
International p23
-
Spain's 'superjudge' Garzón faces rightwing backlash
• Series of writs claim judge has abused his authority
• Country's vision of past at stake, says Garzón lawyer
International p24
-
Amnesty report condemns US death rates of women in childbirth
Those from poor, African American and Native American backgrounds most at risk
-
Lonely death of Juanita Goggins, trailblazer of US civil rights
International p29
-
Entente cordiale: Sarkozy speaks warmly of Brown at Downing St
French president says Britain needed 'bang in heart of Europe' and tells Cameron he doesn't understand Tory euroscepticism -
Sarkozy braced for poll defeat as angry French voters look to the left
Socialists and Greens expect significant gains in regional elections as ruling party blamed for poor economic situation
-
Putin in deal to build nuclear reactors for India
Moscow signs agreement that will see Russia help construct up to 20 atomic plants
International p31
-
Sent to jail for throwing a single bottle
Last year, during protests against the attack on Gaza, a mixed group of demonstrators clashed with police. But when the alleged culprits were arrested in dawn raids, nearly all those taken were young Muslims
Saturday p34
-
Sky-high Glasgow dreams that turned into a nightmare
Saturday p35
-
'I gave my sister a kidney. I don't know if I'll ever do a better thing'
This week saw the first three-way kidney transplant, in which living donors gave to a stranger in return for an organ for a loved one. Peter Martin, who donated a kidney to his sister, describes how it feels
-
Mary Robinson: 'I feel a terrible sense of urgency'
After 13 years with the UN, former Irish president Mary Robinson is coming home to her debt-ridden country – not to retire, but to fight for 'climate justice' for all the world's poor
Saturday p36
-
Writing a way through grief
-
The war on terror: taking on Jihad Jane
Comment & debate p38
-
Current location? Midway up shit creek
-
Bring on the Robin Hood tax
Comment & debate p39
-
Liberal Democrats: Deal or no deal?
-
Israel and America: Foolish tricks
-
Unthinkable? Hiring more tax inspectors
-
Corrections and clarifications
Balance of trade | Severn bore | Perceptive potholes
Editorials & reply p40
-
Fear and loathing in New Labour
Letters: It is up to the left to grab this opportunity, because they won't have another like this, to reshape the political discourse and redefine the state and its relation to individual freedom -
East is not always best
-
Medium-speed rail also needs a boost
Letters: Last month ministers revealed that since 1997 there has been a substantial fall in the cost of motoring and flying, while rail fares have risen by 13% -
Forced to die alone and without dignity
Letters: Unable to face months of pain, coupled with physical and mental degradation, he elected to end his life while he could still make the journey. Alone -
A tempest of four legs and two voices
Letters: Only yesterday my year 7s were falling about watching two of their number lying on the floor in front of the whiteboard, fooling about under a "gaberdine" -
Israeli impunity
Letters: They know that Joe Biden's condemnation of settlement expansion, in the most sensitive part of the occupied territories, will not be followed up by action of any kind -
Classical elitism
Letters: It is the insulting assumption that classical western art of all kinds, but particularly music, is either elitist or not relevant to working-class and ethnic minority students that has contributed to its minority status
Editorials & reply p41
-
Lehman Brothers: Repo 105 and other accounting tricks
The devices Lehman used to make its balance sheet look healthy bring to mind the Enron debacle, writes Andrew Clark -
Linklaters defends handling of Lehman Brothers deals
City law firm accused of approving off balance sheet transactions that disguised true state of bank's finances -
£3bn coal power plant will test strength of Ed Miliband's environment rules
New plant in Scotland will have to prove that carbon capture technology works
Financial p42
-
Kraft's Irene Rosenfeld: other unpopular bosses
Want to be loved? Don't own a football club -
Where's Irene? Cadbury's new first lady vanishes
Kraft boss Irene Rosenfeld has been conspicuous by her absence since Cadbury's takeover by the US food group
Financial p43
-
The full-price strategy that is making bookshop Foyles thrive
New chief executive Sam Husain has focused on providing a unique customer experience and catering for niche groups
Financial p45
-
BSO/Karabits
-
OAE/Fischer
-
Songs in the Key of London
-
The Sanctuary Lamp
-
Sacred Music and First Cut: White Boy, Black Nanny
-
The Glass Menagerie
Reviews p46
-
Claude Blair obituary
Leading authority on historic European metalwork, especially arms and armour
Obituaries p47
-
This week: Rahm Emanuel, Corey Haim and Samantha Cameron
Lucy Mangan on the people hitting the headlines this week -
Good to meet you … Rita Thorton-Gray
One reader on teaching in a communist village in Spain and receiving a blacked-out Guardian while living in Saudi Arabia