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Human rights campaigners and lawyers hail 'towering figure' and 'rock of principle'

Exclusive: Soldiers and airmen are suspected of killing significant number of civilians, but have not been put on trial

Chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander says all welfare savings will be 'fair'

British Airways also seeking examples of employees making 'inappropriate comments' to passengers about strike action

Tory peer's £25m donation to the British Museum could signal a shift in funding

Although he died 20 years ago, the author's popularity has not waned, and various events are planned to celebrate his writing

Report shows increased career anxiety in class of 2010 and calls for new legal definition for internships

Scientists' discovery raises the prospect of developing drugs in the future to prevent the condition

Gone with the Wind star shown in private moments including being an affectionate father and flirting with actress

PM celebrates unexpectedly easy win in referendum on amendments opposed by all opposition parties

More killed every day than through disease such as Aids, tuberculosis and malaria according to FIA Foundation

Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

New Mexico state fair in Albuquerque witnessed feat by competitive eater Joey Chestnut

New generation have little political agenda but their violence and influence rival Farc and ELN, claims thinktank

Peter Bradshaw on the French New Wave figure who out-Hitchcocked Hitchcock with his hypocrisy-exposing suspense thrillers

Tributes pour in for a founding father of Nouvelle Vague movement who turned out more than 80 films

Vattenfall's Thanet farm set to open as National Grid confirms wind-generated electricity has hit a new peak

Gary Younge:His achievements are insufficient, his party is confused. As recession bits and elections loom, fundamentalists and fantasists are seizing the initiative

Letter: The UKBA policy is clear – that a minimum use of force is a last resort, is only carried out by trained officers, is proportionate, and is used for the shortest period to ensure compliance

Letters: The pope's views on sex may challenge modern assumptions, but why is liberal society so afraid of that challenge that it can respond only with personal abuse of the man

Letters: To call living on benefit in any shape or form a "lifestyle choice" is the most crass and insulting demonstration of patrician insensitivity and ignorance to have crossed the lips of any politician in recent times

Letters: Diarrhoea, largely caused by a lack of toilets and unsafe water, is now the biggest killer of children under five in Africa while globally it kills more children than Aids, malaria and measles combined

Other lives: A librarian who couldn't be classified, indexed or pigeonholed