Ron and Maria Passi, who operate Murray Island’s only taxi, were out driving the night the king tide struck. Neighbours flagged them down, asking for help, and so it was not until some time later that they saw their own grandchildren standing in...

Five Taliban militants blew themselves up in a house in the Afghan capital Kabul after 10 hours of clashes with besieging Afghan security forces on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry official told Reuters. While the Taliban have launched sporadic suicide...

Australian gay rights activists Wednesday welcomed a government promise to bring in legislation giving same-sex couples the same rights as opposite-sex couples. Discrimination would be removed in laws covering taxation, pensions, health care and...

It is midnight, and eight hooded figures slip around the side of a freight truck at a gas station on the outskirts of this northern French port. They wait in the orange half-light while one tries the locked truck door. It doesn’t give, and seconds...

It’s 11 p.m. in the Plaza del Ángel in Madrid, and the strains of a jazz sax solo can be heard seeping through the plate-glass windows of Café Central. Inside, couples and small groups huddle around the 20 or so tables set amid mirrored pillars...

A woman who said she was turned down for a shop assistant’s job because she was expecting her second child has won her sex discrimination case.

Protests against the Indian leg of the Olympic torch relay have put a spotlight on the country’s large population of Tibetan exiles. Tens of thousands have crossed into India since 1959, when Chinese put down a Tibetan uprising. Many of the...

The Grand Coalition Cabinet is now complete, after Orange Democratic Party ministers and their assistants were sworn in at State House, Nairobi, in a historic ceremony Thursday. President Kibaki speaks during the ceremony that also saw the swearing in...

The weak pound is importing inflation and wages are starting to rise. Yesterday, UK rates came down a quarter to 5%. ECB rates held steady as expected at 4% and all of us who continue to feel poorer can be grateful that we’re not paying a mortgage in...

A Canadian man who claims he was discriminated against as a pagan who practices a form of sadomasochism will get to take his complaint to a human rights tribunal. An appeals court rejected a bid by Vancouver police on Tuesday to block a hearing on...