A former diplomat, he could have had a distinguished political career in his native Mexico. Instead, he chose to be a writer † and spearheaded the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s. An outspoken…

Full coverage as Rebekah Brooks and six others learn if they will face charges over the phone-hacking scandal. By Josh Halliday and Dugald Baird

Full coverage as Rebekah Brooks and six others learn if they will face charges over the phone-hacking scandal. By Josh Halliday and Dugald Baird

Full coverage as Rebekah Brooks and six others learn if they will face charges over the phone-hacking scandal. By Josh Halliday and Dugald Baird

Former News International chief executive, her husband and four others to be charged in phone-hacking inquiry

Michael Wolff: Brooks was chief architect of the very nexus of press and political power the Leveson inquiry is struggling to uncover

Peter Hill was editor of the Daily Express for seven years, from the end of 2003 to early 2011. Among his claims to fame is that he edited the newspaper throughout the Madeleine McCann affair in 2007-8, overseeing coverage that led to a £550,000 libel pay- out by the group and to grovelling front-page apologies

Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of Guardian News Media, talks about his new book. Part diary, part memoir, part travelogue, Ballade is a journey through the terrain of a single idea the joy and importance of being an amateur. This books central thesis w ill be a call to all of us amateur musicians, painters, potters, climbers, cyclists etc to reconnect with important creative parts of ourselves that have been long forgotten or suppressed

Exclusive: Dominique Strauss-Kahn accuses enemies linked to Nicolas Sarkozy of destroying bid for French presidency

Emma Gilbey Keller: A handful of atypical cells one week; a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery the next. It's a cure, but it's brutal