British former inmates of Guantanamo Bay are to set to receive large payments from the Government to drop claims that British secret agents knew they were being tortured.
Sinn Fein will choose Gerry Adams' successor as a Stormont Assembly member at a meeting on Tuesday
Amnesty International says EU has failed to hold Britain and other countries accountable for involvement in the CIA's illegal rendition and detention
The NATO summit in Lisbon this weekend will mark a turning point in the prosecution of the war in Afghanistan as it lays out a roadmap to end combat operations by 2014, the top U.S. envoy to the region said
NATO and Russia are ready to conclude a series of agreements designed to boost cooperation in the Afghan war. These include expanding the current arrangement that enables NATO to ship supplies from Europe to Afghanistan overland through Russia, .
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's proposed extension of Canada's mission in Afghanistan comes under attack from some opposition parties.
A top Israeli policeman has met with the chief of police of Dubai, who has led accusations that Israel was behind the slaying of a Hamas commander in the emirate
Egyptian police have beaten a 19-year-old man to death and dumped his body in a canal, his family allege.
The resignations of four Italian Cabinet members Monday threw Rome once again into political chaos, as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi prepared for a confidence vote he is likely to lose and the early elections that would follow.
Violence broke out in two cities in Haiti on Monday, amid protests by residents who blame UN troops for the worsening cholera crisis that has now killed 1,000 people.
Euro faces unprecedented crisis after another country indicated that it is at a "high risk" of requiring an international bail-out.
Europe's energy chief will this week reveal his blueprint for massive new gas pipelines, high-tech "electricity highways" and up to 8,000 kilometers of pipes for transporting and burying greenhouse gases, a leaked draft shows.
The social media mammoth Facebook announced a new "next generation messaging" service for seamless communication between multiple platforms.
Georgians choose to learn English ahead of Russian
Aynak, one of country's richest historical sites, faces destruction as Chinese create world's largest opencast copper mine
Russians moving to Ukraine and Ukrainians moving to Russia dominate what is “the second most active channel of peaceful migration,” ranking behind only the influx of workers from Mexico into the United States, according to a new World Bank report on “Migration and Monetary Transfers.”
US Muslim student's parents would not accept a dog in their house.
Journey between Shanghai and Beijing to be cut to four hours
The remote hamlet of Tsovkra looks like many other villages in Russia's chaotic southern region of Dagestan. The picturesque smattering of cottages that clings to the mountainside several hours' drive along dirt roads from the regional capital also suffers from the same problems that plague the rest of the region – unemployment, migration from the countryside to the cities and the threat of radical Islam. But in a tradition stretching back longer than anyone can remember, there's one thing that makes Tsovkra unique: absolutely everyone here can walk the tightrope.
Tanzania's first elected albino member of parliament fears his life could be in danger in the east African country where albino hunters kill their victims and use their blood and body parts for witchcraft.
Recently, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), H.E. Jean Ping, mentioned in his new book, Africa Will Shine Brighter than a Thousand Flames, that Africa is in danger of "being colonized again" by the West in the post-Cold War period, and many African countries fear that their former exploiters are coming back.
A legal scholar and former First Lady, Mirlande Manigat is at the top of the polls as Haitians grow increasingly frustrated with the ineptitude of the ruling party
In the first of a series on the politics of immigration in Europe, Ian Traynor reveals how mainstream European parties appear paralysed by populism, unable to halt the rise of the far right
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