As the Dalai Lama visits Britain, his director of information, Thubten Samphel, outlines the Tibetan government-in-exile's stance on the China-Tibet issue. Is Tibet part of China?

Poverty and chronic undernourishment is a pre-existing condition. The recent hikes in food prices have contributed to exacerbating and aggravating the food crisis. The price hikes are hitting an impoverished population, which has barely the means to survi

[But not as much of a threat as Bush.] Scotland's new terror tsar has warned that the threat from right-wing extremism is as damaging to community relations as the menace posed by al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh].

As U.S. authorities tighten security on the porous Mexico border in this election year, some communities have been caught off guard by government plans to build miles of fencing and barriers.

China has expressed regret over film director Steven Spielberg's decision to pull out as artistic adviser to the Beijing Olympics over the Darfur issue.

"Osama bin Laden threatened severe attacks on Europeans and accused Pope Benedict XVI of helping in a "new Crusade" against Islam."

HONG KONG, March 21, 2008--Authorities in Beijing have been holding Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser and her Chinese husband under house arrest in the capital since the beginning of the recent anti-Chinese protests

on this particular Friday, March 21, it seems almost no believer of any sort will be left without his or her own holiday. In what is statistically, at least, a once-in-a-millennium combination, the following will all occur on the 21st:

13) Every aspect of her statement about the "harrowing" airplane landing during a 1996 trip to Bosnia has turned out to be a complete and total lie.

DW[Thursday, March 20, 2008 18:55] In a fresh blow to Berlin-Beijing relations, Germany has said it is freezing aid talks with the Chinese government as a result of China's crackdown on demonstrations in Tibet.