Join the vigil outside the Israeli Embassy Remember Gaza: end the siege Sunday 27 December 2009, 3pm High Street Kensington, W8, London (Nearest tube: High St Kensington)

With only 5 days left, the crucial Copenhagen climate summit is failing. In 3 days, world leaders will arrive for an unprecedented 60 hours of direct negotiations. Each one will have to decide whether to step forward as heroes, or fail us all. But they

The emails that have right-wingers frothing aren't scandalous. The issue is who hacked the scientists' computers, and what they had to gain from undermining their research.

The fact is that the ban proposal was brought up in an elected Swiss Parliament and was approved by the people of Switzerland themselves. You cannot have a more democratic mandate.

The Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse committed by priests because bishops wanted to protect the church's reputation at the expense of victims, an expert commission reported Thursday after a three-year probe into previously

Do You think the world is going to end? Poles are shifting and the human race will be almost wiped out? Is the world going to end ? Some people might think so and it is no wonder as we see the destruction , war, pollutio

In writing this, I'm bracing myself for being called an anti-Semite, an appeaser of terrorists and propagandist for the Palestinian cause. I'm none of those things. I say this simply because these days, it seems, anyone who dares criticise the policies

The police officer who brought down a gunman after he went on a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army base here was on the way to have her car repaired when she responded to a police radio report of gunfire at a center where soldiers are processed before

The global recession and pressure to divert funds to other health crises are hurting the fight against AIDS, a medical group warned Thursday, with one health worker saying he feared a return to the days when the AIDS virus was a death sentence in Africa.

Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe has sent his brutal army to seize control of his country's diamond fields. 200 civilians have been murdered and profits from our wedding rings are used to fuel violent political conflict.[thanks, Dandelion]