Turkish court bans Richard Dawkins website

A Turkish court has banned internet users from viewing the official Richard Dawkins website after a Muslim creationist claimed its contents were defamatory and blasphemous

History repeating

Louise Doughty reports on the sinister new wave of persecution against Europe's fastest-growing ethnic minority

Harry Potter: Hollywood takes on Bollywood with lawsuit against Hari Puttar

Indian producers are forced to postpone film premiere as legal action begins over the film's title

Beach threat to bay Joyce made famous

Coastal development plans to suffocate Forty Foot at Sandycove, Co Dublin, immortalised in Ulysses

Muslims have nothing to fear from this book

Shahed Amanullah: We've come a long way since Rushdie. The Jewel of Medina offers us an opportunity for calm debate, not violent protests

How has The Joy of Sex changed since 1972?

Stuart Jeffries: Psychologist Susan Quilliam has updated the original with 43 new sections and it offers a woman's perspective for the first time

Woodward book puts boot into Bush

Latest expos&eacute portrays US government as being riddled with dissension over Iraq war

Artists accuse Sandinistas of vendetta against revered poet

Nicaragua's Sandinista government accused of betraying revolutionary heritage with vendetta against revered poet

White House spied on Iraq leaders, says Bob Woodward book

Author's interviews with George Bush reveal president's doubts about Iraq troop surge and military leadership

Losing the ground beneath their feet

Climate change means that millions of people now face the risk of catastrophic flooding, but few more so than the char-dwellers of Bangladesh, clinging to tiny impermanent islands of sand in the Jamuna river Tahmima Anam returns to see what the future might hold for her homeland