In the past 2 months, pamphlets were distributed across western Venezuela threatening to assassinate transvestites, homeless people, etc - standard fascist practice in Colombia. Fascists have started killing in Venezuela. Govt is campaigning against it.

The UN conference on racism confronted western countries with difficult truths - but that's no reason for anyone to walk out

TEHRAN, Iran - An American journalist jailed in Iran for allegedly spying for the U.S. was on her fifth day of a hunger strike Saturday and does not plan to stop until she is freed, her father said.

The fertility doctor who claims to have created cloned human embryos and injected them into women desperate to have children is facing a barrage of criticism. Panayiotis Zavos says he placed 11 embryos, made from adult skin cells,

This week an international donors conference meets in Washington, DC that will have an enormous impact on the future of Haiti. But at a time like this, why shouldn't we wait to focus on countries like Haiti until we've taken care of our own problems?

Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging. Johann Hari reports

The appalling way Robert Mugabe treats political dissidents was revealed today after secretly filmed images of a Zimbabwean jails was released. The shocking pictures show horrifying scenes of starving inmates too weak to stand and eating

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Baghdad court sentenced an Iraqi reporter who hurled his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush to three years in prison on Thursday, a verdict critics said was politically motivated.

the ban went to force today the 7th amendment to the Cosmetics Directive means that from 11 March 2009 it becomes illegal to: test cosmetic ingredients on animals anywhere in the EU, irrespective of whether there is a non-animal alternative method

The five detainees at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison camp charged with plotting the September 11 attacks have filed a document expressing pride at their accomplishment and accepting responsibility for the deaths of nearly 3,000 people, The New York Times