A book called "The cartoons that shook the world" being published by Yale University Press about the Danish cartoons portraying the Prophet Mohammed which provoked outrage from the Muslim world has not printed the controversial cartoons in the...
A college lecturer is facing disciplinary action after showing erotic material to his students. John Ozimek wonders what the problem is
The Thai government has created a police taskforce within the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MICT) to monitor websites and identify those posting content that violates Thailand's draconian lèse majesté law. Police General...
Giulio D’Eramo observes the satellite media wars in Italy
Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi said on his website that some of those detained after the country's disputed June presidential vote were tortured to death in prison. The claim by Mehdi Karroubi comes days after he said a number...
The European Union has announced it is extending its sanctions on Burma to cover members of the judiciary responsible for the verdict in the trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Read more here
In Russia, opposition daily Novaya Gazeta has announced that due to increasing dangers they will pull all their staff from Chechnya after a a string of killings there on human rights activists and journalists. In October 2006, the same paper's...
Malaysian rights activists have welcomed the government's decision not to implement a controversial plan to create an Internet filter blocking "undesirable" websites. The proposal had been described as a "horror of horrors" by the opposition which...
China has scaled back its plans to install controversial net filtering software, "Green Dam Youth Escort" on its citizens' computers. The government has now said that citizens can choose whether they use the program, although installations on...
French officials have banned a Muslim woman from swimming in a public pool while wearing a swimsuit that covers her entire body. The woman known only as Carole had previously swum in July in the pool in Emerainville, east of Paris, in the "burkini"...
Christopher Galley doubts that the latest recommendations will protect whistleblowers. Investigations into leaks need to be wholly independent of politics
The Associated Press has reported that two of its journalists who were embedded with the United States military in the south of the country had been wounded in a roadside bombing. Photographer, Emilio Morenatti, television news videographer, Andi...