The couple responsible for the death of 17-month-old Baby Peter have been named after a court anonymity order expired. He died in Haringey, north London, in the care of his mother Tracey Connelly, 28, and her partner Steven Barker, 33. A third...
A Russian NGO chief and her husband were found shot dead in Chechnya on Tuesday, with their corpses stuffed into a car boot. The murder of the head of Let's Save the Generation, Zarema Sadulayeva, and her husband came less than one month after...
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been found guilty and sentenced to an additional 18 months house arrest by a court in Rangoon. Suu Kyi was convicted of violating state security laws by allowing a US national into her lakeside home...
Science writer Simon Singh is set go to an oral hearing at the Court of Appeal later this year seeking permission to challenge an earlier decision by the court not to allow an appeal over a libel action, according to legal sources. This latest...
Brazillian reporter Fernanda Ezabellahas has been blacklisted by Universal studios after a press conference in Brazil for the new Hollywood movie Funny People, where she asked director Judd Apatow how could he justify spending $1400 for a 9 mile...
A government campaign is taking place in Tunisia to discredit Al Jazeera as "the mouthpiece of opposition" to President Ben Ali’s government according to Reporters Without Borders. State owned media and television are being seen to criticise the...
The Media High Council (MHC) in Rwanda have called for a three-month suspension to local language tabloid, Umuseso, for allegedly going beyond the boundaries of media rules by allegedly likening the current government to the one that was in power...
Greater protection from police for civil service "whistleblowers" has been urged by MPs in the wake of the arrest of Conservative frontbencher Damian Green. A cross-party committee of MPs suggests leaks within Whitehall should only be a criminal...
Iran's police chief, Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, has acknowledged that protesters detained in post-election unrest were tortured in custody, but says the deaths of detainees were caused by illness, not torture. The police commander has fired the head...
Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told technology website CNET News that denial-of-service internet attacks which disrupted Twitter, Facebook and Live Journal services yesterday were targeted specifically at a Georgian blogger known as...