This weekend's tenth anniversary of 9/11 offers an opportunity to reflect on the decade-long effects of the attacks. It is in many respects a grim balance sheet of war and destruction. Yet 9/11 and its long aftermath have also shown people's courage and determination in adversity - and ended with glimmers of hope in the Middle East too.... more
The role of executive director of the ICA should have been Ekow Eshun's dream job. But after a campaign of vitriol and backstabbing, he's giving up. He tells Godfrey Barker about the ruthless politics of the art world... more
As Mandelson beats Blair to be first to publish his memoirs of the New Labour years next week, we reveal what the books will expose and the behind-the-scenes battle between two publishing rivals.... more
The torture debate is once again raising the ugliest of heads. Following the revelations of MI5’s knowledge of torture in the Binyam Mohamed case, ministers have been hot in denial of any collusion in torture with the US or other allies... more
Edinburgh theatre: The Traverse hosts some big hits this Fringe but in Little Gem and Palace of the End, it has two understated but richly rewarding treasures... more
Tony Blair was aware of a secret interrogation policy that meant British citizens could be tortured during counter-terrorism investigations, it has been claimed... more
White House officials attack British media over their treatment of shocking Abu Ghraib prison abuse photographs the Obama administration wants to suppress... more
Images of rape and torture are among photographs of abuse at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq that Barack Obama is blocking from release, a former general claimed... more
Images of rape and torture are among photographs of abuse at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq that Barack Obama is blocking from release, a former general claimed... more
Barack Obama has ordered the first U-turn of his administration as he seeks to prevent the release of photographs that show the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan... more
Belgium-based theatre-maker Jan Fabre pushes at what used to be called decency, with a kind of extreme burlesque that mocks our rampant materialism.... more
George Bush warned his successor that a terrorist attack "on our homeland" remained the greatest threat to the US as he delivered his final press conference... more
Commissioned to mark 90 years since women first won the right to vote, Her Naked Skin is set in 1913 at the height of the suffragette movement.... more
Nick Broomfield's Battle for Haditha casts real ex-servicemen to portray one of the most shocking incidents to emerge from the conflict in Iraq.... more
No Country for Old Men is one of the Coens' most violent films, but that won't stop it at the Oscars. It's about a man in an unforgiving world, say Joel and Ethan, it has to be brutal.... more
Polly Stenham's first play, That Face, caused a sensation at the Royal Court. Now, two years after leaving school, she is nominated for the Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award.... more
Anyone hoping choreographer William Forsythe would mellow with age will find little comfort in Three Atmospheric Studies, a ballet with which he rattles theatrical and political cages.... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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