Former US President Bill Clinton has arrived in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, amid an international stand off over the country's nuclear programme and the jailing of two US journalists. Clinton will try to negotiate the release of Laura Ling...
On 2 August four CD and cassette shops in the Northwest Frontier Province town of Balakot were bombed. Three similar music shops were also attacked on 27 July. It is suspected that the Taliban, who consider popular music unIslamic, were...
Britain's immigration minister, Phil Woolas MP, has suggested that immigrants who wish to become citizens could jeopardise their prospects if they took part in demonstrations. Read more here
An Australian radio phone-in show has been taken off air after a 14-year-old girl admitted to being raped while taking part in a game on the programme. Presenter Kyle Sandilands asked the girl if that had been her only sexual experience. Read more...
On 2 August it was reported that Moroccan magazines Telle Qu'elle and Nichane were confiscated after publishing a survey about how Moroccan’s view the monarchy. The government has promised to carry out the same action on any paper or magazine which...
The Guardian has published an apology and has settled out of court for an undisclosed amount with the South African President. The paper had described president Zuma in an article as a rapist. President Zuma, although brought to court for both rape...
Police in China have detained a leading human rights lawyer in a dawn raid, less than a fortnight after the Open Constitution Initative, the pioneering legal centre he helped found was shut down. Xu Zhiyong's disappearance comes amid growing...
The Telegraph-Journal of Saint John newspaper has issued a front-page apology to the Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper for its earlier story suggesting he slipped a communion wafer into his jacket pocket during a Catholic funeral mass. The...
A Russian anti-corruption activist has been attacked by a group of men who shot him in the mouth with a stun gun. Albert Pchelintsev is the head of "Against Corruption, Lies and Dishonour," a group which investigates corruption by officials...
A court in Burma has postponed delivering its verdict in the trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi until 11 August. The judges said they needed more time to review the case, according to Western diplomats in Rangoon. Read more here