Google has cooperated with autocratic regimes around the world, including the Kremlin in Russia and the Chinese Communist party, to facilitate censorship requests, an Observer investigation can reveal. The technology company has engaged with the administrations of about 150 countries since 2011 that want information scrubbed from their public domains. As well as democratic governments, it has interacted with dictatorships, sanctioned regimes and governments accused of human rights abuses, including the police in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan....

It’s 5pm and Jesse Birkett is clocking off work for the day, both mentally and physically. Birkett works in Ericeira, a pretty Portuguese fishing town, where whitewashed cottages overlook the Atlantic waves, and there are still four hours of sunshine left in his day. He knows he won’t have to field any emails from his bosses once his shift finishes. So he’ll do what he does every evening after work: go to the beach to...

As a growing number of people report defective new build homes, Alexandra Druzhinin, 49, tells i how her property purchase ruined her life.

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Rampton Secure Hospital is home to the most dangerous and disturbed people in the country. Former patients include 'Britain's most violent prisoner' Charles Bronson, the Soham murderer Ian Huntley...

On the first day of my new job as a hotel waitress — before I have a chance to polish a glass or proffer a canapé — I’m primed in detail about how to enter the building. Not via the front foyer, but circuitously through...