More than 400 people have been killed in a spate of violence in northern Nigeria, the president of a human rights group said Tuesday.

Author Pat Roelle (Mr. Pat - pen name) has released a fascinating book, The Apostate Theory, which takes a close look at the increased dangers and threat radical Islam has towards western freedoms with the new Presidents election.

"The Islamic establishment will never manipulate people's votes and commit treason ... the legal structures and electoral regulations of this country do not allow vote rigging," he said in his first public address on the issue since the election. REALLY?

Iran's top legislative body, seeking to calm days of public fury over a disputed presidential election, has invited the three losers to discuss their complaints on Saturday,

"The noise of the crowd was the first thing to hit me. I had been among demonstrators before, but I had never actually heard an angry crowd before.The noise was powerful and full of fury. As I approached the street, I distinguished what they were chanting

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has committed for trial the former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Jean-Pierre Bemba, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, rape and pillaging.

Usually this forty-something journalist is the first to get on to the fashion bandwagon, whether it means wearing receding hemlines or donning shirts over capris, or calf-length pants.

Foreign media banned from leaving offices to cover turmoil...

What is happening now should have happened much earlier. The Pakistan army, instead of wasting time on the Indian border, had to fight the Taliban in Swat and other affected regions.

New kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state media control and allowing Iranians to find novel ways around the restrictions.