In our house I normally have one of the 24-hour news channels on during the day and keep an eye on things as they pan out in the world - and yesterday I saw a short...

A key plank of President Obama’s strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan was in danger of giving way last night after a refusal by Pakistan to take on a top Taleban...

Members of a Sierra Leone traditional group have besieged a woman’s house and stopped her from going home after she launched a legal bid to become a...

There are a million questions one could ask of the woman sitting on the edge of a hospital bed in southern Sri Lanka, but for now only one of them matters: is she Padma...

A landowner who had his land expropriated by the Chavez government and who recently called off a prolonged hunger strike in a long-running dispute with the National...

For many months now, American and European intelligence agencies have been trading theories about a spare, two-page document written in Persian that, if genuine, would...

By 35 votes to 27, the Brazilian Senate approved today, December 15, the entry of Venezuela to Mercosur. The issue caused a dispute between the opposition and the...

Ongoing violence between Mexico’s drug cartels has killed at least 50 people in Mexico’s north in recent days, as the governor’s house and a police...

Opposition politicians from the left denounced the comments by the minister for families, Nadine Morano, as racist. The highly outspoken Morano, who is a member of...

It liberates. It represses. It is a prayer. It is a prison. It protects. It obliterates. Rarely in human history has a piece of cloth been assigned so many roles. Been...

On Sunday, Islamic militants stoned a man to death for adultery in front of hundreds of local residents in Somalia. The man, named Mohamed Abukar Ibrahim, 48, was...

The sexual harassment of women in the streets, schools and work places of the Arab world is driving them to cover up and confine themselves to their homes, said...

These days, it seems like everyone is talking in earnest about marijuana legalization, once dismissed as little more than a Cheech and Chong pipe dream. Indeed, a new...

Even near military bases, female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t often offered a drink on the house as a welcome home. More than 230,000...

On 26th November and 27th November, Gujarat Police had launched a massive attack operation against Innocent People, and beated brutally even Women and Old Aged People...

To Be or Not To Be! Going by the opposition to the creation of Telengana and its repercussion else where, congress has been forced to defer any initiative. It has got a...

David Headley case is getting murkier day by day, confirming the worst fears. Perhaps like Pakistan, USA is also paying for its sins which go back to cold war era. As...

Mr. Larry Cox, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA addressed Mr. Obama on 18 November and urged him not to forget the plight of women, men and children who...

As in most civilized countries, the legal age a young girl can marry in India is 18. Any younger and the child is just not mature enough. Personally I think there would...

It was insanity after all. Or so that if the official plea. As you all know by now: Italian Premier Buffone Silvio Berlusconi was bloodied in the face tonight when at...