A Swedish prosecutor today requested that Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks whistleblower website, be detained for interrogation concerning a re-opened sexual assault investigation. The application could lead to an international arrest warrant
A new report shows Mexico’s regional newspapers keep quiet on cartel killings.
Ana Arana reports
A reporter and a photographer were hospitalised following a brutal beating by guards at the Princess Hotel (Playa del Carmen). An explosion had just occurred in the popular tourist resort, causing seven deaths and 17 injuries. The two reporters...
Kareem Amer freed after serving a prison term for insulting Islam and defaming Egypt’s president. Ashraf Khalil reports
The ease with which the Metropolitan Police closed down the activist site is worrying, says Val Swain
Take that star Howard Donald has seen a super-injunction against an ex-girlfriend lifted. Is this another nail in the coffin for these restrictive measures, asks Mark Lewis
A superinjunction obtained by Take That singer Howard Donald has been lifted by the High Court
British author Alan Shadrake has been sentenced to six weeks in prison and fined SGD$20,000 by a Singapore court
Columnist and commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has said she will not press charges against Birmingham councillor Graham Compton. Compton had tweeted suggesting that someone should stone the Ugandan-born Muslim journalist. He had been listening to...
Cem Büyükçakır, founder and general publications director of the Haberin Yeri website was given an eleven-month long jail sentence for publishing a reader’s comment implying that Turkish President Abdullah Gül descended from an Armenian family....