The National Theatre's Connections initiative brings together young actors and writers. In this year's programme, its possibilities are perfectly illustrated by Katori Hall's Children of Killers... more
They take café culture seriously in Australia and New Zealand. Now their freshly roasted, single-estate formula is proving a winner here, says Charles Campion... more
During her ten years in No 10 Cherie Blair never quite fitted in as the dutiful PM's wife. Now she's out of the spotlight she's found her calling, changing the world one African country at a time... more
Unmarried couples should enjoy the same legal rights as those who have tied the knot, says the country's most senior family judge, Sir Nicholas Wall (married with four children)... more
Rwandan children have to defy wild animals, inhospitable terrain, lack of money and gun-wielding thugs on the way but somehow keep their hopes alive in Africa United
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Woman is forced to leave her adopted Rwandan daughter and partner behind in London after Australian officials rule the five-year-old was an unacceptable immigration risk... more
Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-rape nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a UN peacekeepers’ base in the eastern Congo... more
A suspect wanted for orchestrating the killings of tens of thousands of people in Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been arrested. Former Rwanda deputy intelligence chief Idelphonse Nizeyimana, 46, was captured in Uganda yesterday and flown to Tanzania for trial at the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. ... more
He is famously incapable of relaxing on holiday. So it comes as no surprise that faced with the horrific prospect of a month of leisure time, Gordon Brown wants to do voluntary community work... more
A United Nations aid convoy escorted by UN peacekeepers crossed into the rebel-held zone of eastern Congo today as supplies for more than 250,000 refugees finally started getting through... more
It was not a crowd, rather a loose scattering of disconsolate groups along the platform football supporters of some wretched fourth division team that had lost a match in foreign parts... more
Sir David Attenborough is to host the charity premiere of a film chronicling the lives of the mountain gorillas with whom he was famously filmed for Life On Earth... more
Five years ago he left a life of unimaginable hardship as a child soldier in war-torn Rwanda to join one of the most successful families in Britain. Tindyebwa Agaba, the 20-year-old 'adopted' son of Emma Thompson, has lived at the actress's Hampstead home and had his university education paid for by her
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Author and director Dorcy Rugamba tells Claire Allfree how he has used testimonies from Nazi war crimes trials to help a shattered Rwandan people make sense of their own genocide.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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