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The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man

Target in sight: 'Our expectation was that if he was there, he would go down fighting,' said Barack Obama. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features Viewed backwards, from Osama bin Laden's hideout to the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5505 words)

Charlotte Church: my private life

Charlotte Church: 'I’m the kind of person who laughs off everything publicly, because you can’t go around wailing. Behind closed doors it made me weird out a bit.’ Photograph: Harry Borden for the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3436 words)

Anonymous: behind the masks of the cyber insurgents

Protesters carrying an Anonymous UK banner outside St Paul's Cathedral in London, in October 2011. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Spalding railway station in Lincolnshire is not a big place. It takes me…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 8, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4339 words)

The secret world of male anorexia

Living by numbers: anorexia sufferers are obsessed with losing another inch or another kilo. Illustration: István Banyai When my two older brothers and I were kids my mum would make two dinners every…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2747 words)

Beyond a joke: the truth about why we laugh

'Women couldn't care less whether their ideal male partner laughs or not – they want a male who makes them laugh.' Photograph by Getty Consider the bizarre events of the 1962 outbreak of contagious…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2461 words)

Mitt Romney embraces his Mormonism in public after years of discretion

Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, attend Sunday's church service in Wolfboro, New Hampshire. Romney is more publicly embracing his religion at the Republican convention this week. Photograph: Brian…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3116 words)

Generation boomerang: children who go back to mum and dad

‘They’re ridiculously supportive,’ says Gareth Johnson, with parents Carl and Eunice, and nephew Seth. Photograph: Lucy Levene After my sons graduated and left home, my husband and I adjusted. It…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2269 words)

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In case you missed it ... top Guardian and Observer long reads of the week

The Long Good Read in newspaper form. Photo: Dan Catt/Flickr We publish a lot of stories here on guardian.co.uk. On an average day, around 400 stories are launched by our editorial team and sometimes…
PUBLISHED: July 27, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (720 words)
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