• • Brown sets out plan for UK pull-out from Iraq

    PM declares aim to hand Basra over to local military forces as early as next year

    • It's time to come home but is it really the end?
    • Para hero slams government

  • Madeleine police chief to launch book

    Hastily written exposé to provide stormy final act for investigation into child's disappearance

  • Fears of new crisis after exam fiasco

    Angry teachers are fearful for next year's tests and call for compensation to be paid to schools

  • Iran given two-week nuclear deadline

    Six-nation negotiating team at the United Nations warns Iranian delegation that it has run out of patience

  • War fears cast shadow over Abkhazia

    Bombing campaign spreads fear in Black Sea resort as tension mounts between Russia and Georgia

    • Analysis: Luke Harding

  • Police seek stronger search powers

    Police chief warns that community officers lack training to stop-and-search suspects on street

• • Jamie Hewlett

    The year of the monkey

    How the man behind Gorillaz and the opera Monkey went from a shy boy to a great graphic art rebel
    

  • Obama takes fight to the war zones

    US Democratic presidential candidate arrives in Afghanistan on the first leg of his high-profile tour

    • Immigration row divides haven for US super-rich

  • Belgium divides on national day

    Wealth is crucial to negotiations between Flemish and Walloon sides in devolution debate

  • Attacks worsen in Niger Delta

    Assaults on foreign workers reveal struggle for power between army and shady militia gangs