Atrocity exhibition
Two new interrogations of torture, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure and Philippe Sands' Torture Team, will help justice be done, writes Michael Byers
M&C Saatchi wins obesity campaign
M&C Saatchi has won the creative pitch for the Department of Health's £75m three-year anti-obesity advertising account. By Mark Sweney
Secrets from inside the world of Aids
Elizabeth Pisani's The Wisdom of Whores reports from the streets on the deadly perils of the sex trade, says Stephanie Merritt
Survey calls for free entry to leisure centres
Move would boost public health, poll of more than 2,000 people finds
Johnson signals support for social care insurance
Alan Johnson today signalled his support for a new form of social care insurance as he launched a national debate on future support services for the elderly
Gene sequence puts half of UK population at greater risk of obesity, researchers say
Scientists have discovered a genetic code that may help curb obesity, diabetes and heart disease
Hippie dream, modern nightmare
It epitomised the hippie dream of free love and easy living in the Sixties. Songs, films and books mythologised it. But with the advent of powerful new strains such as skunk, cannabis is increasingly associated with feral youth, psychosis and violent crime. As the government prepares to reclassify the drug, is its decision borne of good science or political opportunism? By Jamie Doward and Tom Templeton
Militia, bandits, one meal a day
Life in a refugee camp is one long fight for survival, as these eyewitness reports describe
Bombs, bullets & our daily bread
Tonight, over four million Palestinians, and more than eight million others across the world, will eat supper as refugees. For this special report, Alex Renton visits Gaza, where every day brings a new struggle against hunger
Call for science to rule on risk of illegal drugs
Drugs policy has become a political football, warns former government adviser