Positive sign: new Guardian editor in chief Katharine Viner.
Katharine Viner
From the five-yearly Global Media Monitoring Project, we know that women are not portrayed quite as badly in the media as they used to be. But will the 2015 project show that trend continuing?
‘Now I’m gladhanding you in droves’.
EPA/Topaz Luk
A startling election victory has delivered the Likud leader with a range of options and left the opposition in disarray.
Labour can almost count its young Scottish voters on one hand.
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New figures show that Labour is considerably further behind the SNP with an age-group that is planning to turn out in force on May 7.
Before you ask, they probably haven’t seen Twilight.
Great Beyond
Real life blood suckers live among us but they don’t want you to know about it.
Five years after amnesty, how serious are threats from some former militants?
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Islamist group raises real fears over security around national vote, but there are others threatening the peace.
Podemos’s Teresa Rodriguez addresses supporters.
EPA/Rafa Alcaide
Will Spain’s general election really be an anti-austerity wave – or something much more messy?
‘Don’t look at him, François.’
EPA/Philippe Wojazer
The EU’s millions in aid to Palestinian territories has come to very little – and Netanyahu’s re-election demands a new approach.
Mosque-erade: An EDL protest in Dudley.
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The bizarre sting that felled a Tory candidate in Dudley all hinged on a long-running local row over a planned mosque.
A possibly accidental lame duck-to-be.
Dominic Lipinski/PA
What David Cameron hoped to achieve by announcing he’d only serve two terms is a mystery.
‘I’m busy that day anyway, chaps, so don’t worry about ole Nick’.
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The debate shambles has reached its climax and guess who drew the short straw.
A losing battle? Iraqi troops and Shia volunteers near Tikrit.
EPA/Baraa Kanaan
Iraq rolled into Tikrit with big promises of a major victory against Islamic State. The world is still waiting.
Salmond signing books in Glasgow last week.
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A memoir by Scotland’s most famous politician may surprise one or two of his detractors.
Germany’s ban on teachers wearing the veil has been in and out of the courts for over a decade.
Uli Deck/EPA
Banning teachers from wearing the veil at school is incompatible with the German constitution.
Damage control: Netanyahu interviewed for NBC.
EPA/Amos Ben Gershom
Israel’s triumphant prime minister has always made a habit of testing alliances to breaking point. Has he gone too far this time?
Nigeria’s saviour-in-waiting?
EPA/Ahmed Jallanzo
How did Nigeria’s former military ruler get back to the precipice of power at 72?
Come together: Tunisians protest the attack on the Bardo Museum.
EPA/Mohamed Messara
Tunisia has come further than any post-Arab Spring nation – so it’s no wonder it drew Islamic State’s ghastly attention.
The big yellow box doesn’t loom large in the Lib Dem campaign.
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Alexander failed to pull a rabbit out of the yellow box, but the Liberal Democrats have more tricks up their sleeves.
Phillips trailed a programme about race but didn’t deliver.
Hard hitting questions were promised but Channel 4 show ended up missing the mark.
The Nigerian army patrols in Chibok, Borno State. There are reports South African mercenaries have joined them.
Henry Ikechukwu/EPA
South Africans have a reputation for being among the best mercenaries in the world. It’s no wonder Nigeria is turning to them.
The writing’s on the wall.
EPA/Fernando Bizerra Jr
Dilma Rousseff’s administration has done little to improve the representation of women in top positions – and has suffered disappointing setbacks.
Candidates for the local elections will stand in pairs.
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A radical new system is to bring parity to regional councils.
A protestor demands religious cult leader Shoko Asahara admits his guilt in the 1995 attacks.
Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA
Twenty years after a sarin gas attack killed 12 in Tokyo, some victims are defending the human rights of the killers.
Nigel Farage and his party have gone from sidelines to spotlight.
Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
UKIP are getting a lot of negative press, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Everyone’s feeling the squeeze.
PA
Osborne’s confidence in the Commons won’t mean much to hard up workers.
If you want to know how well off you are, don’t ask a politician.
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
Labour says we’re worse off, but the Tories say living standards are on the rise - who’s right?