India's animal rights activist and politician Maneka Gandhi's protest and Nepal's 'Budhha Boy' Ram Bahadur Bomjan's appeal won't be able to prevent the sacrifice of nearly half-a-million animals at this month's Gadhimai Mela in this Himalayan nation.

This is the deceit story will prove for the first time that weapons containing uranium components are used in Afghanistan despite US and NATO denial. They tell us that the US & NATO do not use any weapons containing uranium but children still suffer

For the first time, local banks that have held the assets of Jewish Holocaust victims for more than six decades have begun to return the accounts to their heirs.

The military gunned down civilians attending a peaceful pro-democracy rally in the West African country of Guinea. Over one hundred and fifty people were killed and women were stripped and raped in the streets. Please sign the petition to help stop this?

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in a rare joint interview, said Monday that the United States is committed to a regional strategy to build long-standing relations with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"A leading expert on Auschwitz on Sunday denigrated the importance of the finding of plans for the construction of the extermination camp, which was reported this weekend in the German tabloid Bild. He said the documents have been known about for years. "

Sean Kirtley a Sequani activists convicted and sentenced to four and a half years in prison for simply updating a website STOP Sequani LAB has been found not guilty at appeal and released from prison.

Mexico's Supreme Court has ordered the immediate release of 20 men jailed for the massacre of 45 indigenous villagers more than a decade ago.

Ramzan Kadyrov made threats to Natalia Estemirova just months before she was shot dead, says Memorial director.He said the president's aides had explicitly warned her to stop her work in Chechnya.

As Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, the senior law lord, explained: "A trial procedure can never be considered fair if a party to it is kept in ignorance of the case against him."