2011-07-28

The anti-Islamic rhetoric of Anders Behring Breivik has put the Norway attacks on the agenda at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation conference in

Medecins Sans Frontieres on Thursday warned there will be no let-up in the Somali refugee crisis until the famine-hit country’s rainy season in

During six years in the 1950s on Christmas Island and in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tested nuclear weapons. Claims by soldiers who took part in

The hotel maid who accuses former IMF chief Dominque Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her has been speaking to the media in New york. Nafissatou

A haul of weapons and ammunition was recovered in Germany after raids on homes and properties linked to suspected right-wing extremists

The EU has said ‘lone wolf terrorism’ may need greater attention after last week’s twin attacks in Norway, but has admitted the strikes were almost

The directors of BSkyB have unanimously backed James Murdoch to remain as chairman of the satellite broadcaster. Some BSkyB shareholders had called

Across the United States, local politicians are braced for the effects of a possible default by the federal government if there is no deal on the

Recently, a small group of Iranian Mujahideen demonstrated outside the European Council’s building in Brussels. They are calling for the EU to grant

The trade war that has broken out between Kosovo and Serbia has brought to the surface the simmering political rift that deeply divides the two

Kosovo has been trying to take control of its northern frontier crossings and enforce a ban on imports from Serbia – a move in retaliation for

An inquiry into Britain’s phone-hacking scandal will hold its first hearings in September, the judge leading the investigation said Thursday. Lord

Pick of the Clicks looks at the most clicked story of the week on our website and how it is being treated elsewhere on the net. This week: Norway

In Oslo the grieving continues The public memorial of flowers grows bigger each day. Police have confirmed they have received a number of bomb

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has visited the scene of a train accident that killed 39 people, stoking widespread public anger. Officials are

A study of American soldiers has concluded that a knock on the head makes a person more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease later in life. The Walter

More than 10 years after it joined the Schengen area allowing free movement across fellow European states, Denmark has recently put up border

Theatre reportage is a title that Annet Henneman uses for her style of performance in which she tries to give voice to the voiceless. “Iran

A series of deadly unexploded landmines have been washed up by flood waters in and around South Korea’s capital. The explosives, buried around

Those closest to the much-mourned singer Amy Winehouse, most of all her parents, had been worried about her for a long time. No one ever said Amy

Nikolas Skierpning survived the killings on Utoeya, but two of his closest friends did not. The three had travelled to the island together, looking

Cowboys battle no-good extraterrestrials in 1873. “Cowboys & Aliens”, first a comic book, stars Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde. Jon

Royal Dutch Shell has reported big profit increases – as did Norway’s Statoil and Spain’s Repsol. But that was due to high oil prices and masked

German unemployment edged up in July, but the Federal Labour Agency blamed seasonal factors such as school-leavers registering as unemployed and a

Swiss bank Credit Suisse is reducing its workforce by around four percent – that is 2,000 people. Switzerland’s second-biggest bank announced that

NATO’s troops have increased their presence on Kosovo’s northern border to quell deadly, escalating violence. Kosovo has been trying to take

Libyan rebels say they have seized a strategic government-held town near the Tunisian border. Colonel Gaddafi’s troops fled as the onslaught began

The reverberations from the fatal blast in Cyprus have hit the government. The country’s cabinet has quit in a bid to quell public anger. The

July 29, 1958. The US Congress passes the National Aeronautics and Space Act which establishes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Weapons and ammunition have been seized in raids on homes and properties linked to suspected right-wing extremists in southern Germany. It comes as