From Portugal where he arrived this Sunday, November 29, to take part in the Ibero-American Summit, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reiterated the...

The Islamic Hamas movement banned girls last month from riding behind men on motor scooters and forbade women from dancing at the opening of a folk museum. Girls in...

Four police officers were shot and killed yesterday in what authorities called a targeted ambush at a coffee house in Washington state, a sheriff’s official said....

If ever we were to sit back and look at the destruction, death and decay caused by Mugabe;s 30 year rule in Zimbabwe, there is one common denominator in all he...

Labour’s strategy for tackling poverty has reached the end of the road and Britain risks a return to Victorian levels of inequality, according to a major two-year...

They’re called “calaqueros” — skullmongers — and they make a living off Guatemala City’s infamously high murder rate. They chase...

The Russian people were urged yesterday to display a strong will “for a victory over terror” after the death of 25 people in the bombing of an express train. The...

Somali pirates have captured a tanker carrying oil to the US, officials say. The Greek-owned Maran Centaurus was about 1,300km (800 miles) off Somalia when it was...

Gays in Uganda have a dismal condition and face a tough survival. They come across insults from strangers, face stern laws, imprisonment, police harassment on daily...

Iran had no intention of building 10 new nuclear facilities until it was strongly rebuked by the U.N. nuclear watchdog over its nuclear activities, the country’s...

A man with an extensive criminal past — whose 95-year prison sentence was commuted in Arkansas nearly a decade ago by then Gov. Mike Huckabee– was being...

A former guerrilla fighter has achieved through the ballot box what he could never earn by bombing, kidnapping and attacking his political enemies — the power to...

With Thanksgiving recess now upon us, it seems an appropriate time to revisit the hysterical Republican whoppers and talking points about the Democratic party agenda...

A government minister has blamed Indonesia’s recent string of natural disasters on people’s immorality. Communication and Information Minister Tifatul...

At most colleges, marijuana is very much an extracurricular matter. But at Med Grow Cannabis College, marijuana is the curriculum: the history, the horticulture and the...

Honduras has a newly elected president. The question is whether he can convince the world the vote was legitimate and showed that Hondurans want to put a summer coup...

Workers at a nuclear power plant in southern India were treated for poisoning after drinking water was deliberately spiked with radiation, senior government officials...

I am sure whether you are a boy or a girl you defiitely have played computer games at some point of your life.You might be a total addict or might have just played upon...

Refusing their appeal for asylum in India, the Indian government has ordered the deportation of 66 Pakistanis belonging to the Gohar Shahi sect, one founded by the Sufi...

Have you ever had a conversation with someone over, say, a film or book and the person kept on referring to the movie as “great” and why it was so good?;...