UNESCOs proposed international sex education guidelines aimed at reducing HIV have been removed from its website amid criticism by conservative...
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Sudan: journalist Lubna Hussein freed
Journalist Lubna Hussein has been released, apparently "against her wishes", after the Sudanese journalists union paid the penalty fine of £130 for...
Kambakhsh freed after Karzai pardon
Afghan student Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh has been freed from prison after he was secretly pardon by Afghanistan's President Karzai. Kambakhsh was...
Gambian journalists pardoned
Six journalists imprisoned for sedition in Gambia have been pardoned by President Jammeh. Read more here
Khalid bin Mahfouz dead at 60
Billionaire Saudi banker Khalid bin Mahfouz, best known in Britain for a series of libel suits and legal threats against reporters and authors who...
Stalin’s grandson sues Novaya gazeta
The grandson of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, is suing Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta for £200,000 over a story about...
Court orders new Politkovskaya probe
The Supreme Court in Moscow has ordered a new investigation into the murder of Novaya gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya. The outspoken critic of...
Sri Lanka: Tissainayagam given 20 years hard labour
Sri Lankan journalist JS Tissainayagam has been sentenced to 20 years hard labout by a Colombo court after he was found guilty of causing "racial...
Second investigator on reporter murder case killed
Pablo Pasillas Fong, the lead federal investigator in the case of journalist murdered journalist Armando Rodríguez has been killed. He is the second...
Madonna booed for Roma comments
Madonna was booed by thousands of fans when she spoke against "discrimination of Romanies and Gypsies in Eastern Europe" during a concert in...