Canadians have signed almost 70,000 petitions and messages urging ... internet freedom, justice for Tibetans, an end to censorship, progress on China's deplorable record on state executions and unfair trials

Every Briton has 3,254 pieces of personal information stored about him or her each week. Telephone calls, swipes of a card and clicks of a mouse are being recorded and stored. What about the US? Noted in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.

Nearly a third of British Muslim students polled in a new report to be published on Monday said that killing in the name of religion could be justified

The long-talked-about desert waterway could solve a multitude of ills -- or cause them.

"One World, One Dream," is the official motto of the Beijing Olympics that open Friday, but the world has become considerably more complicated since the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2008 Summer Games to China seven years ago.

A 7-year-old Chinese girl was not good-looking enough for the Olympics opening ceremony

In Marxist inspired narratives of feudal (or capitalist) states collapsing of their inherent contradictions, there should fittingly be a role for a revolutionary movement and perhaps even a revolutionary hero...

Chinese police dragged away and roughed up a British journalist this morning as he was reporting on a protest by a group of foreigners demanding freedom for Tibet. One World - One Dream?

"Only On The Web " Katie Couric talks with SKY News Stuart Ramsay reporting from Tbilisi Georgia about the facts behind Russia s cease-fire. © 2008 CBS News

Rice supposed to be an "expert" on Russia. But it is her Cold War mentality and extreme hawkishness that allowed her to rise through the ranks within the U.S. foreign policy establishment.