In 1999, filmmaker Jeremy Gilley launched Peace One Day and set out to find a starting point for peace. He had a mission: to document his efforts to establish the first ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence with a fixed calendar date.

Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed, an Iraqi who has supplied photos and video to Reuters on a freelance basis for about two years, was detained in a raid on his home in Mahmudiya by U.S. and Iraqi forces early on Tuesday morning, his family said.

40 years of oil left. 5,500,000,000 years of sunshine left. Don't worry.

Iraqi security forces have begun an operation in the capital, Baghdad, to evict squatters from houses abandoned by people who fled sectarian violence.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - More than 150,000 Mexicans dressed in white marched on Saturday to protest a wave of kidnappings and gruesome murders, putting pressure on President Felipe Calderon to meet his promises to crack down on crime

After years of backroom arm-twisting, Iraq is flinging open half of its known oil reserves to foreign corporations on terms of unheard of favourability due to the risks that were caused precisely by the invasion of the country, argues Naomi Klein.

After a terror campaign and a sham 'election' last Friday, Robert Mugabe has declared himself President of Zimbabwe. The country is in crisis and its fate depends on talks between Mugabe and the winner of the first round election -- Morgan Tsvangirai.

HARARE, Jun 28 (IPS) - "We are too familiar with the violence that was meted upon numerous of us from 1890 when the colonialists came into our country right up to the most recent elections. Chief among these forms of violence is sexual violence.

An uncontacted tribe lingers in the Brazilian Amazon and Jose Carlos Mirelles is responsible for finding them. Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports on these indigenous people in the Amazon and interviews the man who led a mission to locate the tribe.

The next thing I remember was awakening to loud noises, screams, and machine gun fire. I was too paralyzed with shock and fear to move, which may have been what saved my life. But there were holes in the floor of the loft, which appeared to have been...