Edward Snowden is giving Guardian readers the exclusive.

The 29-year-old former NSA contractor and source of the Guardian’s NSA files coverage will – with the help of Glenn Greenwald – take your questions today on why he revealed the NSA’s top secret surveillance of US citizens, the international storm that has ensued and the uncertain future he now faces. Click on this link. Ask him anything.

Sasha and Malia Obama wear colourful shoes as they are greeted along with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama upon their arrival on Air Force One in rainy Belfast for the G8 summit. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Read extracts from documents revealed by Edward Snowden describing GCHQ’s ‘recent successes’ http://gu.com/p/3gj4a/tw

Politicians calls and emails intercepted by UK intelligence at G20 summit meetings: http://gu.com/p/3gj3n/tw

Guardian front page, 17 June 2013

Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts, according to documents seen by the Guardian.

‘I decided to pretend to be someone very confident.’

The comedian and author Dawn French talks about new love, how to look self-assured, and her weakness for talent shows

Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Observer

As Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical makes its
world premiere, the Observer picks its top 10 Roald Dahl’s creations

Photographs: Everett /Rex Features, Courtesy 20th Century Fox

Each week, the Guardian Weekend magazine’s editorial team choose a picture, or set of pictures, that particularly tickle their fancy. This week, their choice is Doug Ischar’s Marginal Waters, documenting the gay community of Chicago in the mid-1980s.

Photographs: Doug Ischar

A frilled shark head. The ancient ‘living fossil’ species of shark that dates back at least 90m years was caught during the survey around Rockall, a tiny islet off the coast of Scotland.

Photograph: Francis Neat

Shady business: A police armoured personnel carrier rolls over counterfeit sunglasses during the destruction of pirated and counterfeit goods in Quezon city, Philippines.

From picture desk live: the best news images of the day

Photograph: Erik de Castro/Reuters

Family album of pampered pugs - in pictures Phillip Lauer and his wife Sue have, for the past six years, been transforming their dogs Blue, Bono and Roxy into fictional characters, rock stars and members of the royal family.

Photograph: Phillip Lauer / Barcroft Media/Phillip Lauer / Barcroft Media