The Supreme Court has overturned Austria’s homosexuality law, banning male homosexual relations between adults and young people aged under 18.
Israeli settlers have set up a new ”rogue” settlement in the West Bank in response to a deadly Palestinian roadside attack.
A white farmer in Zimbabwe allegedly sprayed tear gas at a ruling party lawmaker who took over part of his farm under.
Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state who has been accused of war crimes by his critics, was yesterday appointed by George Bush to head the investigation into the September 11 attacks.
At almost the last possible moment, Missouri Governor Bob Holden stayed the execution of convicted hit man Daniel Basile after an unidentified witness stepped forward.
Former president Nelson Mandela is to take up the Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) call for antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs for people with HIV directly with President Thabo Mbeki.
Zimbabwean journalist and publisher Mark Chavunduka, whose arrest and subsequent torture helped expose his government’s increasing repression of dissent, has died after a prolonged illness, his family said on Wednesday.
A Thai Senate committee will hold a hearing next week on whether a Bangkok high school should be allowed to continue using hard-core sex videos in sex education classes.
A little way off the Californian coast, near the island of San Clemente, the men of the USS Constellation’s squadrons were last week going through their paces to ready themselves for war.
Sudanese authorities have arrested a suspected al-Qaeda leader whom US officials say fired a surface-to-air missile at a US aircraft at an American airbase in Saudi Arabia.