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Former Soviet president says Kremlin must send people to the polls again or face long-term unrest over alleged voting fraud Russian authorities should annul the parliamentary vote results and

I read with interest Kira Cochrane’s excellent article on the lack of female voices or bylines in the media (Why are there so few women?, G2, 5 December). At

  With the holidays right around the corner, we’re staring down the ugly double-barrel of gifts and the inevitable New Year’s resolutions. Finding the right gifts for the fitness freak in your life can sometimes

Blackpool … Unloved by Bill Bryson. Photograph: Don Mcphee What is the most unflattering description of a town in literature? Surely it’s Bill Bryson’s description of Blackpool in Notes From a Small Island: “On

Despite having already become the music industry’s second greatest contributor of digital revenues, behind Apple’s iTunes, in a very short space of time, and signed up 2.5 million paying subscribers, senior digital figures at

In a pair of unreleased memos seen in the usual spy-shot fashion, Sprint and T-Mobile both have, at least internally, discussed the Carrier IQ saga with their employees.  The memos discuss the use of

Laura Barnett Singer-songwriter Charlene Soraia was 11 years old when she discovered she had synaesthesia. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian Charlene Soraia was 11 when she realised she didn’t experience the world in

The BBC said it had received four complaints about the BBC TWO programme, Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook, broadcast on Sunday evening. But viewers took to online forums in droves to express astonishment at Maitlis’s

Merkel and Sarkozy seek renegotiation of Lisbon treaty to open way for deal to restore faith in single currency Germany and France have struck a grand bargain that they

The appalling case of Gulnaz (Afghan woman jailed for being raped to be freed – if she marries her attacker, 2 December) is a stark reminder of how much