2012-09-17

The United Nations says August was the bloodiest month of the conflict in Syria so far. The world body estimates around 1,600 people were killed

Amateur video has emerged showing the US ambassador to Libya in the moments just after the attack that killed him. In the footage, a still-alive

In a major policy shift, the European Commission has said it wants to cap food-based biofuels to five percent. The new limit was announced during

Police in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, surrounded a mosque on Monday where a wanted Salafist leader is hiding out. Abu Yadh is accused of calling

“I came from the Ethiopian border, we used to raise animals, mainly goats. Because of the drought, I lost all my animals. And there was also fighting

Violence in Somalia has become a more or less permanent condition. The internally warring country in the Horn of Africa has not had effective

The worst massacre ever suffered by the Palestinian people took place in Lebanon 30 years ago. In the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, women

Swedish clothing chain H&M has suffered in the August heatwave. Sales are down by four percent at the world’s second-biggest fashion retailer, and

Magistrates and judicial employees have started a five day strike in protest against a 12 billion euro austerity package which could see substantial

Answering the call to keep up protests against a film that insults the prophet Mohammed, thousands of Lebanese Muslims marched through the southern

Occupy Wall Street protesters marked the movement’s one-year anniversary on Monday by taking to the streets of New York’s financial district. The

Anti-American clashes sparked by a US-made film which mocks the Prophet Muhammad continue across the Muslim world. In Indonesia hundreds of

Tunisian security forces have surrounded a mosque to arrest the leader of an islamic group accused of being involved in violent protests at the

Taking advantage of the share’s highest price since April the Russian government is resuming its privatisation campaign by selling Sberbank, Europe’s

Fears of a trade war have ignited between the USA and China after Beijing filed a case at the WTO to overturn the levying of anti-dumping duties on a

A military court Gaza convicted four Islamist extremists on Monday of kidnapping and murdering Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni. Mahmud

On Monday, exactly a year after putting economic inequalities under the global spotlight with its rallying cry of “We are the 99%”, Occupy Wall

It is perhaps ironic that Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate were greeted by topless dancers when they arrived in Marau in the Solomon

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has begun the task of overseeing a nation often described as a ‘lawless country’ after being inaugurated as Somalia’s new

Italian carmaker Fiat has again said all bets are off as far as its 2010 “Fabricca Italia” project goes. After stunning the workforce and markets

Protests against the film considered ‘blasphemous’ by many Muslims continue in a number of countries, with angry people taking to the streets of

Striking miners defied a protest ban to gather once again at a South African platinum mine on Monday in an ongoing dispute over pay. They built

America’s defence industries have not taken long to respond to the proposed EADS/BAE merger, via a former US undersecretary of commerce who warned

London Fashion Week is now is full swing. More than 100 top British and international designers including Vivienne Westwood, Henry Holland and

Public transport strikes in Spain have caused chaos for tens of thousands of commuters for the second time in a month. Hundreds of high-speed and

Comic book lawman Judge Dredd is back on the silver screen after Sylvester Stallone’s much panned 1995 film, in Dredd 3D, directed by Pete Travis and

A territorial row between China and Japan looks set to hurt trade between Asia’s two biggest economies. Demonstrators demanded a boycott of

Chinese protesters attacked a hotel that houses the Japanese consulate in the capital of China’s southern Guangdong province. The Chinese government

Some 13 billion plastic bottles are thrown away in the UK alone each year and, as a bottle takes around 700 years to break down, they will be there