BBC News - Journalist Marie Colvin in Homs: "I saw a baby die today"
Parts of the Syrian city of Homs are being bombarded by shells in what witnesses are describing as the heaviest attack in days. Read more ...
Parts of the Syrian city of Homs are being bombarded by shells in what witnesses are describing as the heaviest attack in days. Read more ...
Ethiopian and Somali troops capture Baidoa, a strategic stronghold of al-Shabab Islamist militants in south-western Somalia. Read more ...
She was not rare. Women who cover conflicts are frequently better at it than men. But Marie Colvin, who has reportedly been killed in Syria, was peerless. Read more ...
Unconfirmed reports from Syria say two Western journalists - an American and a French national - have been killed in the central city of Homs. Read more ...
They call it the widows’ basement. Crammed amid makeshift beds and scattered belongings are frightened women and children trapped in the hor [...] Read more ...
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Marie Colvin, who has been killed in the Syrian city of Homs, was without doubt one of the finest foreign correspondents of her generation, and also one of the m [...] Read more ...
Join Andrew Sparrow for rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including PMQs and the NHS risk register debate [...] Read more ...
Sunday Times journalist killed in Homs is remembered for her fearless, dedication to telling the victim's story and humour [...] Read more ...
A controversial anti-piracy agreement is to be referred to the EU's highest court due to concerns surrounding internet freedoms. Read more ...
Marie Colvin: Today it was confirmed that the war correspondent Marie Colvin has died in the Syrian city of Homs. In November 2010 Colvin gave this speech on the importance of war reporting [...] Read more ...
Claim of 500 defectors joining Free Syrian Army Last day of Mubarak's trial in Egypt Nine reported dead in Yemen election violence [...] Read more ...
LIVERPOOL freelance film-maker and photo-journalist Paul Conroy has been injured in a shell attack in the central Syrian city of Homs which killed two western journalists, including his Sunday Times colleague Marie Colvin. Read more ...
Former nightclub bouncer Carl Whant has been found guilty of the brutal rape and murder of heavily-pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender by a jury at Newport Crown Court. Read more ...
Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin makes moving address in defence of her craft at a commemoration for journalists killed on assignment [...] Read more ...
The web is the future of journalism, but let's be honest: the future isn't living up to expectations. Newspapers and magazines have cut back on in-depth reporting. Gossip sites have proliferated. The web has become a byword for fast and cheap. Why isn't it synonymous with fearless, investigative and enthralling writing? Read more ...
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Two Western journalists killed in Syria were today identified as Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and French photojournalist Remi Ochlik. Read more ...
All the key points, analysis and reaction as David Cameron faces his weekly Commons grilling from MPs. Read more ...
11 March 2011An opposition fighter rest under a rebellion flag in the middle of the battlefield oil town Ras Lanouf in Libya. Read more ...
At Blottr, we depend on the the bravery of citizen journalists around the world. Whether they capture and report on police incidents in Lond [...] Read more ...
A look back at the careers of the two Western journalists who have reportedly been killed in Syria. Read more ...
Protests over the burning of the Koran by Nato troops are under way in the Afghan cities of Kabul and Jalalabad, with shots fired in the capital. Read more ...
Statement from John Witherow, Editor of The Sunday Times on the death of Marie Colvin: -- I want to report with great shock the sad news of the death of Marie Colvin in Syria today. We have reliable reports that Marie was killed in Homs while covering the devastating bombardment by the Syrian army. Read more ...
The judge at the UVF supergrass trial in Belfast is expected to give his ruling later. Read more ...
French television reporter Gilles Jacquier was killed in Homs last month as a shell exploded amid a group of journalists covering protests i [...] Read more ...
The jury in a trial of a man accused of raping and murdering pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender resumes its deliberations for a second day. Read more ...
Anti-capitalist protesters camping outside St Paul's Cathedral have been refused permission to challenge orders evicting them by the Court of Appeal. Read more ...
The Syrian National Council has said it is coming to the view that military intervention would be the only way to break the on-going deadlock in Syria. [...] Read more ...
Marie Colvin: News organisations must invest in covering war The names of 48 journalists and other media workers who have died covering the [...] Read more ...
Two men and two women arrested and bailed by police investigating fraud claims in government's work programme [...] Read more ...
“It’s true that SA revenues are a bit disappointing — it’s still early, but it looks like there’s been quite a lot of forestalling and other [...] Read more ...
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Doctors' and nurses' chiefs call for release of government's own analysis of dangers ahead of Commons debate [...] Read more ...
Oil prices in the UK today became the first of the major countries to set a new 2012 record. FT investment editor James Mackintosh examines the impact of oil prices on equities. Read more ...
There are reports that at least 50 people, including four children, were killed by government forces across Syria yesterday. Tom Coghlan, correspondent for The Times, describes the scene in the province of Homs where 30 people were killed during a heavy bombardment of the city. Read more ...
German government insists treatment enables 'suffering tied to abnornmal sex drive … to be cured or at least alleviated' [...] Read more ...
Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is released after two days of questioning over an alleged prostitution ring. Read more ...
