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Ed Miliband: Labour's catastrophic loss of trust over Iraq
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UN says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change'
Front page
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Mother, father and daughter gunned down in cemetery on visit to Pakistan
Family feud over arranged marriage blamed for killing of Lancashire family
Top stories p3
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Anonymity plan for alleged rapists sparks activist backlash
Warning serial attackers could 'slip through the net' and that proposal could imply women lie about rape -
MI5 and police failures under spotlight in London bomb inquests
Allegations of flawed intelligence before 7/7 suicide attacks to be investigated by coroner without jury
UK news p4
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Blackpool reach for Premier League's towering heights
The football team with the second-lowest home crowd in the Coca-Cola championship is going for the real thing
UK news p5
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Ed Miliband: 'We're brothers, not clones. I'm different from David'
The former climate change secretary explains how New Labour lost its way - and says that his deep sense of values can make him the party's new leader
UK news p6
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Nick Clegg will run five of the nine full cabinet committees
The deputy PM will be in 'close consultation' with the prime minister on everything from policy to cabinet positions
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Ed Miliband speech cites 2008 Labour meeting that changed fate of Edgbaston
Birmingham flat targeted by Tories became headquarters for Obama-style volunteer-led campaign
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Nick Clegg claims coalition government expects to be unpopular
Deputy prime minister believes committing to five-year term was essential to 'get through pain' of cutting public finances
UK news p7
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David Cameron and Angela Merkel: A candid relationship
PM's visits to Paris and Berlin signal willingness to engage but stands firm on shifting power to Brussels
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Zac Goldsmith wants £2bn food budget to be spent on organic produce
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Whitehall officials play down torture inquiry expectations
Suggestions the inquiry will be held in private and would have to await pending court cases comes after William Hague's remarks about a judge-led hearing
UK news p8
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How Prince Charles triggered an £81m headache for the emir of Qatar
A court hears how Doha feared 'serious consequences' after the prince objected to Richard Rogers' designs on the site of the former Chelsea barracks
UK news p9
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Zadie Smith dismisses big society and multiculturalism policy
White Teeth author tells BBC's Today she does not understand thinking behind either concept
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Now for Google's next trick … taking over your television viewing
World's dominant internet search company wants to deliver TV programmes ‑ and the adverts – in a marriage of technology
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World Cup travel company goes bust leaving fans ticketless
Brighton-based BYT announces liquidation by email, leaving some customers without match tickets, flights or refunds
UK news p10
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Lianne Smith 'admits to murdering her two children'
Documents released after court hearing claim British mother said she had pleaded guilty to killing her son and daughter
UK news p11
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Farewell to Ashes to Ashes and Gene Hunt, the lovable sexist, racist, macho homophobe
The unreconstructed star of the BBC series Ashes to Ashes became a heartthrob and favourite and even energised the Conservatives' campaign
UK news p13
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British Airways set sights on unions after 2007 dispute, documents show
British Airways ordered an investigation into shop stewards over allegations of fixing cabin crew shifts
UK news p14
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Drug treatment policy needs a dose of evidence
UK news p17
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Kate Beckinsale makes a habit out of changing dresses in Cannes
British actor forgoes the Doc Martens at Cannes in favour of glitz, glamour … and myriad costume changes
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Hundreds protest as 'anti-French' Outside the Law is screened
Hundreds protest as film about French atrocities against Algerians screened at Cannes film festival
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Cannes festival diary: Smart mutts and bare torsos
A British film bound for Italy, but not Britain, a pooch with talent and, quelle surprise, an exhibitionist French actor
UK news p19
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Women cyclists 'at greater risk from lorry deaths'
Ten of the 13 people who died in cycling accidents in London last year were women
UK news p21
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British woman who escaped Venezualan jail convicted of dealing drugs in UK
Mother-of-two Natalie Welsh had vowed to go straight after spending four years in jail in South America
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Lost bows out – after 121 baffling episodes – with 5am TV simulcast to beat plot spoilers
Millions of fans expected to watch finale of Oceanic Air flight 815 survivor's tales on television's mysterious island
UK news p22
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Simon Hoggart's week: The tragic death of great novelist JG Farrell
Simon Hoggart: I'm over the moon that the writer, who died in 1979 drowning at the age of 44, won the 'lost' Brooker prize this month for his novel Troubles
UK news p23
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Hillary Clinton warns of 'consequences' for North Korea over sinking of ship
US secretary of state considering censure for Pyongyang over sinking of South Korean warship that cost 46 lives
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Barack Obama's 'fat cats' speech gatecrashed by … well, what, exactly?
Sight of unidentified rodent scurrying in front of his podium diverts onlookers from president's speech on Wall Street reform
International p24
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BP oil spill reaches delicate wetlands of Louisiana
Local reports described heavy sheets of oil clogging marshes in Mississippi delta that provide haven for migratory birds -
Californian boy, 13, closes in on Everest conquest
'Every step I take is finally toward the biggest goal of my life, to stand on top of the world', the 13-year-old wrote on his blog
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New York model agencies accuse each other of 'talent theft'
Ford Models and Next Management are suing each other through the Manhattan supreme court
International p25
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Muhammad cartoon sparks threats to South African newspaper
Prophet shown complaining to a psychiatrist that followers of other religions have a sense of humour
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Silvio Berlusconi faces barrage of criticism over telephone bugging law
Judges, prosecutors and journalists say law is simply to shield Silvio Berlusconi from further embarrassing revelations
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Basque separatists convicted of 2006 Madrid airport bombing
Three members of Eta sentenced to 1,040 years in prison for bomb at Barajas airport car park that killed two people
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Wealthy Paris residents accused of nimbyism
All four of the social housing projects for the 16th arrondissement have been suspended after locals mobilised and took to the courts -
Thailand protests: Abhisit Vejjajiva pledges reconciliation as clear-up starts
After two months of bloody demonstrations PM promises independent inquiry into 'events'
International p28
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Pervez Musharraf announces plans to stand in Pakistani elections
Former Pakistani president, who has been living in London since resigning his post in 2008, hopes to head new political party
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British troops in Helmand placed under US command
• Move likely to provoke mixed feelings among veterans
• Announcement made as British soldier is killed in Helmand
International p29
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Mosaic cements British ties to South African landmark in apartheid struggle
Briton helps replace lost mural at church in Sophiatown, heart of black life in Johannesburg that was bulldozed for white suburb
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Kenya investigates attempt to sabotage new constitution
Authorities say someone at the government printer's office inserted words to alter a key clause in the draft document
International p31
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Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi looks for new term in office
PM seeks to extend 19-year rule in first parliamentary elections since disputed 2005 poll that saw 200 people killed
International p33
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Love in the dock
As a homosexual couple in Malawi start 14 years' hard labour, we talk to gay activists across Africa about why they're prepared to risk so much
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Laughter in the age of ridicule
Saturday p34
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'This is my offer to the world. My wager'
Antony Gormley interview: 'This is my offer to the world. My wager'
Saturday p36
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Knowing me, knowing who?
Two men were exposed this week for falsifying their credentials, but what made them do it? The former 'Lord of Lies' explains the attraction of deceit
Saturday p37
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America's exalted capacity for murder
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Humanity will thank heaven that this creator of synthetic life is playing God
Comment & debate p38
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The blizzard of Oz
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Labour's new motto: immigration, immigration, immigration
Comment & debate p39
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Unthinkable? Repeal drugs laws
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Corrections and clarifications
Robert Elstone and Everton | Royal Mail letters | Bubble sextant | Michael Barry | Lost: The Final Journey -
Torture: A fresh government provides a chance for a fresh start
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Synthetic cells: It's life, but not as we know it
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Country diary: Bedfordshire
Editorials & reply p40
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Small museums have a role beyond the soap opera of survival
Letters: It's a view that provides entertainment, but it's hardly an accurate picture of a vibrant small museum -
Standing firm on civil liberties
Letters: Rather than be seduced by the siren voices of the security establishment, the new coalition government should remain true to the principles they voiced so often while in opposition -
Shiny new politics
Letters: Any job paid for by public money should have a public recruitment process -
We need more than small talk
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Mamma Mia! – God lives in the musical
Letters: The English language libretto of Les Misérables reads like a liturgical text -
New approaches to debt and banking
Letters: Risk cannot be properly allocated in a system where the debtor has no independent access to justice or relief
Editorials & reply p41
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Wall Street reform bill in detail
What Obama's shake-up of the banking and financial sectors contains – and what it seems to be missing -
Banks deny big is bad with fightback against global moves to break them up
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Day of market turmoil as investors panic over eurozone crisis
Financial p42
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The euro's crucial flaw is a one-size-fits-all approach
Financial p43
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Budget deficit £5.5bn smaller than expected
Financial p44
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Rogue trader guilty of unauthorised HSBC shares deal
Former Lewis Charles Securities' stockbroker admits charges of false accounting in case referred to police by the Financial Services Authority
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Vodafone to hang up on Egypt as India and Europe call
Vodafone is looking to pull out of its business in Egypt to free up £3bn to invest in Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and India
Financial p45
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Marine Parade/Best Before
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Billy Budd
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Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother
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SS Arcadia
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The Chemical Brothers
Reviews p46
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Arthur Clifford obituary
Dynamic ideas-man who introduced a fresh style of TV news at the launch of ITN
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Michael Edwards obituary
Other lives: Early and leading exponent of art therapy in the UK and Canada
Obituaries p47
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Good to meet you … Sherry Daniel
Reader who grew up with the Guardian in Stockport tells how she gets twitchy if she can't get hold of a copy in rural Somerset
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This week: Labour leadership, Craig Venter, Wenlock and Mandeville
Lucy Mangan on the people hitting the headlines in the past seven days