The US and Russia have stepped up diplomatic efforts to defuse the Ukraine crisis amid heightened tensions in Crimea.
For the handful of policewomen in one of Afghanistan’s most volatile provinces, danger and disapproval are all in a day’s work.
Female Afghan boxers hoping to make it to the London 2012 Olympics are practising their jabs in a gym where the Taliban publicly executed women.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday urged China to work closely with the G20 and introduce greater political freedoms.
UK opposition parties are under growing pressure to agree to a power-sharing deal, days after an election left the country politically deadlocked.
As Europe’s airspace reopened and passengers boarded flights home, the airline industry pressed for government compensation to cover its losses.
Swarms of stranded passengers scrambled on Wednesday to hitch a flight home after Europe’s air embargo ended.
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/ 19 October 2009
Judges for a $5-million prize recognising good governance in Africa said on Monday they had decided not to award the honour this year.
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/ 8 February 2008
The religious head of the Anglican church sparked an angry row in the United Kingdom on Friday after saying the adoption of some parts of sharia law alongside Britain’s legal system "seems unavoidable". Leaders across the political spectrum criticised Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’s call for "constructive accommodation".
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/ 21 November 2007
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced angry questions from lawmakers on Wednesday after confidential records containing nearly half the population’s bank details went missing in the post. The disappearance of about 25-million people’s personal data vanished in the biggest-ever loss of personal information by any government.
Princes William and Harry were to lead tributes on Friday to their late mother, Princess Diana, on the 10th anniversary of her death at a service attended by senior royals and Diana’s friends and family. William and Harry, who were just 15 and 12 when their mother died following a high-speed car crash in Paris, have spent months arranging the service.
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/ 18 December 2006
British police on Monday arrested a man on suspicion of the murder of five prostitutes in the port town of Ipswich in a major breakthrough in a case that has gripped the nation. The unnamed 37-year-old man was arrested early on Monday morning at his home at Trimley, near the port town of Felixstowe, Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull told reporters.