Winsor McCay: Little Nemo in Slumberland Google Doodle celebrates a comics great
Doodle recreates the adventures of Little Nemo from the illustrator's comic strips
The arms-to-Iraq court case that became serious miscarriage of justice
It has taken James Edmiston 25 years, through divorce and bankruptcy, to win compensation after being wrongly charged with alleged illegal exports to Iraq, writes Richard Norton-Taylor
Jeremy Bowen: ‘I’ve never been into that toys-for-boys stuff’
The BBC's Middle East editor tells Rachel Cooke about the future of the Arab world, war reporting, losing colleagues and being a coward
Hobbit tourism scatters more of Tolkien’s magic across New Zealand
For millions, the Lord of the Rings films turned the country into Middle-earth. As the premiere of a second trilogy approaches, tour operators are ready for another bonanza
Syrian writer Samar Yazbek: ‘A woman like me makes life difficult’
Syrian novelist Samar Yazbek was born into a wealthy Alawite family, but became 'a traitor to her kind' to fight the Assad regime. Her latest work is a visceral, nightmarish account of the revolution that drove her into exile
The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize
Jason Farago: After a drought of nearly 20 years without a winner, Americans have become very sore losers. But there's a moral to this tale
Disney updates paper purchasing policy to protect Indonesian rainforest
Publisher pledges to use alternative sources as activist rejoices that 'The Jungle Book will no longer be destroying the jungle'
Alex Karras obituary
Actor, wrestler and American football star whose hardman roles included Mongo in Blazing Saddles
Serbian film director’s ‘theme park’ echoes The Bridge on the Drina
Emir Kusturica builds homage to Ivo Andric novel, triggering controversy in Visegrad, scene of atrocities in Bosnian war
Midnight’s Children film to be shown in India
Salman Rushdie's film set for December release despite fears no local distributor would risk controversy and buy rights
Syrian author shares PEN/Pinter prize with Carol Ann Duffy
Samar Yazbek – forced into exile by response to her account of the revolution – honoured as 'international writer of courage'
What the Girls spat on Twitter tells us about feminism
Bim Adewunmi: The omission of women of colour on popular television shows should concern all feminists, including Caitlin Moran
Julian Assange to publish book about freedom and the future of the internet
WikiLeaks founder to be co-author of book entitled Cypherpunks, despite being confined to Ecuadorean embassy in London
Karl Popper, the enemy of certainty, part 5: the craving to be right
Liz Williams: How to believe: The knowledge and certainty claims that are common to so many modern ideologies run contrary to Popper's thinking
Nobel prize 2012: a week guaranteed to unleash joy, dismay – and a collective ‘who?’
Handing out Nobel prizes may sound straightforward enough, but barely a year goes by without some kind of mishap