The little-known Belgian federalist and the Labour peer who has never held elected office were selected at a meeting in Brussels. EU leaders chose the Belgian prime minister as the first President of the European Council. Britain's European Trade Comm

RAMIN Pourandarjani was a brilliant medical student with a promising future, until he was found dead in a dormitory at Tehran police headquarters last week

According to history as written by the winner, Zionism, Israel was given its birth certificate and thus legitimacy by the UN Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947. This is propaganda nonsense.

AN official Taliban publication warns Australia that it will have to assimilate into a dominant Asia or face the prospect of being overpowered and forced to take population overspill from Asia.

The reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest and most controversial hydropower project, will reach its final height in November at 175 meters. The 660 kilometer-long reservoir displaced 1.3 million people and is wreaking havoc with the envir

military sources report that the North Korean miniature subs are capable of dropping small teams of commando forces on enemy shores, damaging large warships and mining the approaches of naval bases and harbors. They are capable of sowing EM-52 "rising m

The UN World Food Programme has put together a very cool website for their new campaign, A Billion for a Billion, that allows you to take action in many ways, among them tweeting, sending an e-mail to editors, blogging, adding a banner or widget to your

The winners and their work.

Now that they have finally wrung a "Yes" vote out of the only country allowed to vote, namely Ireland, by forcing them to vote again and by bullying, threats and tricks, if not outright fraud, the fate of 500 million people in Europe depends on whether Va

You can promote freedom and human rights by joining Amnesty International's annual Global Write-a-thon, the world's largest letter writing event! This global action marking International Human Rights Day on December 10 brings people together just about