The racist south has gone with the wind

Sarah Baxter returns to her US childhood home to find out how much racial attitudes have changed

The humble car bomb changed the world

The US is spending £2.1bn a year to fight the terrorist’s most lethal weapon, reports a former CIA agent

Top stories this week from around the world

Nuclear claim

Iran possesses 6,000 centrifuge machines used to enrich uranium

Healy loses his footing on 25ft wave

Mark Healy lost his footing yesterday as the giant waves rolled at The Dungeons, a reef off Cape Town in South Africa

Soldier killed after delaying flight home

Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe, 24, of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, died the day after he was due to fly home

Liar who led his nation to ruin

Karadzic’s disguise may have been comic but it hid a brutal man

Privacy on parade

Thursday's Max Mosley sex case ruling strikes a blow to investigative journalism and risks the public being kept in the dark

Prince Andrew, his £15m home and the Kazakhstan connection

Further mystery over the sale of Sunninghill Park unfolds as the Kazakh who negotiated the sale may not be the real owner

Surf's up

Brits evacuated as fires sweep through Rhodes

More than 2,000 tourists from across Europe were moved to safe areas from hotels in the south of the Greek island

Plane explosion was not a terrorist attack

While it is still too early to determine what caused the explosion, investigators believe it was not an act of terrorism

World in brief

Jazz sax player Johnny Griffin dies; Roman Catholic groups urged Pope Benedict XVI to lift ban on contraception

My Week: Radovan Karadzic

Here in my cell, assuming the yogic position of the Unresolved Crescent Moon, I have much time to think

MPs gallop to defence of Rome's horses

Italian Government urged to intervene in a row over alleged mistreatment of horses that pull tourists through the capital

From Moss Side to Rio, theatre saves lives

The children of Brazilian drug traffickers have discovered a route out of the ghetto through links to a Manchester theatre

Little expat sympathy for 'sex on beach' pair

Michelle Palmer faces jail in Dubai after being charged with indecency, consuming alcohol and having an affair with Vince Acors

All on board were riveted, but was a panel loose?

It is not unusual that parts fall off aircraft in flight, but it is uncommon that they cause a decompression of the cabin

British soldier killed in southern Afghanistan

A British army dog handler and an explosives sniffer dog were killed during a clash with militants in Helmand province

Obama's foreign tour loses him ground at home

The Democratic presidential candidate denied he was ignoring the concerns of ordinary Americans while he toured the world