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Owen Bowcott works from London. Owen is a correspondent for the Guardian based in London. He is formerly the Guardian's Ireland correspondent and also worked on the foreign newsdesk. Owen Bowcott has over 4364 followers on Twitter.
EU court ruling that privacy is being compromised could force many digital companies to relocate operations.
Former Rustenburg mayor Matthew Wolmarans, who spent two years in jail, says his fate is in the hands of the ANC after his acquittal.
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor’s 50-year prison sentence has been upheld, making it likely that he’ll spend the rest of his life in jail.
Charles Taylor’s 50-year sentence for war crimes shows that no man is above the law, writes Owen Bowcott.
Julian Assange may have lost his appeal against being extradited to Sweden to face rape charges, but his legal battle in Britain isn’t over just yet.
Convicted war criminal Charles Taylor has accused the international community of selectively targeting African heads of state with prosecutions.
A case by former subjects of Her Majesty’s British Empire has unearthed awful truths, deliberately hidden, of atrocities in African countries.
Two men who posted messages on Facebook inciting other people to riot in their home towns have been sentenced to four years each in prison.
Four Kenyans who claimed they were tortured at the hands of British colonial officials during the Mau Mau insurgency have won the right to sue.
The UN should set up a commission to look at the conflicts between privacy and freedom of expression on the internet because the issue is global.
As many as 320 000 people in the north of the country have been displaced by the LRA as it extends its abduction and terror raids.
The first priority for the new president, naturally, will be the court. Not the Supreme Court, but the basketball court.
The race to exploit the last unexplored wildernesses on Earth is intensifying. Survey ships have been dispatched across the oceans, and marine consultants hired. Submersibles are…
Bono may be celebrated for browbeating world leaders into funding debt relief for developing countries, but his Irish rock band is facing criticism for switching its financial…
More than a third of the world’s population lacks access to adequate sanitation, according to a survey by the British charity WaterAid. In a report marking World Toilet Day on…
Faria Alam, the secretary propelled into tabloid infamy through her affair with the England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson and the Football Association’s chief executive Mark…
A high school in Suffolk, eastern England, has become the first in Britain to ban girls from wearing skirts and order them to switch to uniforms with long trousers. The decision…
A Middle East-based British businessman has emerged as a key suspect in a secret network supplying Libya, Iran and North Korea with equipment to build nuclear bombs. Speaking for…
The November 15 suicide bombing in Istanbul fits clearly into the pattern of al-Qaeda’s targeting of Jewish interests, as well as its determination to punish the United States’s…
The Church of England has an ”unhealthy obsession” with sexual sin, a panel of bishops suggested this week in a document exploring cross-dressing, bisexuality, gay marriage and…
