The economic and political crisis in Italy is deepening amid growing fears that the country will default on its debt.
Flooding in Thailand has affected millions of people, and waters are predicted to remain high for at least a month. But the response to the disaster has been held back by the political crisis that has engulfed the country since the 2006 coup.
Hundreds of students demonstrated against poverty and inflation in eastern Sudan on Sunday and Monday of this week.
Angela Davis became one of the icons of the radical movement of the 1960s when she was placed on the FBI’s "ten most wanted" list on spurious gun charges. Today she continues to campaign against the US’s vast, oppressive system.
Thousands took to the streets of Cairo on Monday to demand the release of Alaa Abd El-Fatah, one of Egypt’s most prominent bloggers and political activists.
Unesco, the cultural agency of the United Nations (UN), voted to accept Palestine as a full member on Monday.
A Kenyan air strike killed five people, including children, in Jibil food distribution camp in southern Somalia last Sunday, according to Médecins san Frontières.
Occupy Oakland’s call for a general strike on 2 November has transformed the political climate in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dozens of students stormed a meeting on the education budget in Chile’s senate building in Santiago on Thursday of last week.
Barack Obama is to send 100 "military advisers" to Uganda and across central Africa to assist in the fight against the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
The Occupy Wall Street movement saw a massive mobilisation of up to 100,000 people in Times Square last Saturday.
The occupiers have made vibrant links with the trade union movement in the US. Groups of workers in union T-shirts are a common site at the occupation.
