Journalists at Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou, China, walked out on strike on Monday of this week over press censorship.
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria sent a defiant message to the opposition last Sunday in his first public speech in six months.
Venezuela has been gripped by political crisis amid speculation that long serving left wing president Hugo Chavez could be at death’s door.
The trial has begun of five men accused of raping and murdering a woman on a bus in Delhi two weeks ago. A sixth suspect will be tried in juvenile court.
Flash mobs of indigenous activists and their supporters, hundreds strong, blocked roads, bridges and railway lines across Canada last week.
Femi Aborisade, the editor of Socialist Worker in Nigeria, has been attacked in his house.
US politicians agreed a deal on the economy last week amid panic that failure to do so would lead to economic disaster.
In the middle of the unspeakable horror of the rape and murder in Delhi is a spark of hope.
The brutal rape of a 23 year old female medical student on a public bus in Delhi on 16 December has caught India by storm.
Iraqi Baha Mousa died as a result of his treatment at the hands of British troops, according to a public inquiry. This included "hooding" and being held in stress positions.
Some miners at Marikana were shot after being taken into custody by police, new evidence suggests. The evidence was given at South Africa’s Farlam Commission into the massacre.
Activists in Greece are building for a massive demonstration against the fascist Golden Dawn party on 19 January.
