The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered the Palestinians a new freeze on settlement building – if they recognise Israel as a Jewish

Two foreign nationals have reportedly been arrested in Iran after interviewing the son of Sakineh Ashtiani, the woman threatened with death by

European Union humanitarian aid policy got a stronger legal basis with the Lisbon Treaty, providing for a body of aid volunteers. How will that work?

Improving the distribution of food for Europe’s poorest people is the aim of proposed reforms of the EU’s food aid programme. So what is intended?

This week in Learning World we go to Columbia, Indonesia and Syria to look at the effects of education in far flung corners of the globe. In

Five EU environmental experts are in Hungary to help cope with the sludge from the Ajka alumina factory spill. The national authorities want to know

Iran has increased the estimated level of its oil reserves. That came just one week after its neighbour Iraq raised its proven oil reserves figure

Kidnapped British aid worker Linda Norgrove may have been killed by US forces as they attempted to rescue her from her captors in

A policeman has been jailed for life in Greece after being convicted of murdering a teenager. The killing after an altercation in a suburb of

There is no instruction book explaining how to maintain the health of people trapped 700 metres below ground for two months. With the rescue just

The anxious relatives awaiting the start of the rescue of Chile’s 33 trapped miners are holding prayer vigils in their make-shift camp. More than

Based on the bestselling autobiography of the same name, “Mr Nice” is the extraordinary story of Howard Marks, one of the world’s most successful

It might not surprise people in minority groups that police in Europe are more likely to do control checks on them. The European Agency for

France is caught in a whirl of industrial action as workers across a number of sectors down tools again to fight plans to raise the retirement age to

Russia is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest stop on his farewell tour before stepping down as governor of California. Before visiting Russia’s

Al Qaeda has reportedly demanded that France lift its ban on Muslim face veils in exchange for the release of hostages being held in the Sahara.

It was only a small demonstration in Hong Kong, but they were determined to make their voices heard. The protest took place outside the central

China’s gross domestic product is estimated to have risen about 9.5 percent in the third quarter, which would be the slowest pace of growth in a

Budget airliner easyJet and its founder and largest shareholder, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, have ended their lengthy dispute over use of the brand name

Chilean artist Ivan Navarro, who grew up under the Pinochet dicatorship, has gained international recognition for his neon works tackling social and

Microsoft has unveiled a new line of smartphones running its Windows software. Microsoft is hoping that the new phones, from handset makers such as

The inquest into the London bombings has opened in the Royal Courts of Justice, over five years after the events of July 2005 which killed 52 people

One immediate consequence of the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Chinese democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobao has been a crackdown on his wife. At

The boss of the Hungarian aluminium firm linked to last week’s massive spill of toxic sludge has been arrested.    Zoltan Bakonyi, head of

Germany’s immigration debate rumbles on after Horst Seehofer the Bavarian state premier said the country should block any more migrants from “alien

One of the most respected figures at the recent UN Millennium Development Goals review summit was US economist Jeffrey Sachs. He heads the Earth

Brazil’s presidential election runoff has come to life after ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff slammed her opponent Jose Serra in a televised

Tomorrow sees the worldwide publication of a new book from Nelson Mandela. This time it is a selection from his private papers and letters and, as