Portugal faces a crucial presidential election this week as the economy continues to collapse. Many commentators believe that Portugal will be the next European Union country to need a financial bailout.
The pictures from Brazil, where well over 600 people have already died in the floods and mudslides, are all too familiar. However it was the floods in Australia that got most of the attention.
Uprisings are shaking the authoritarian regimes of Tunisia and Algeria in North Africa.
The assassination of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer last week highlights the destabilising effect of the "war on terror".
The US and the European Union are stepping up the pressure to decide who will govern in West Africa’s Ivory Coast. Most observers declared that Alassane Ouattara beat sitting president Laurent Gbagbo in the election on 28 November 2010.
The uprisings that spread across Tunisia in North Africa over the last two weeks in December mark an important moment in the country’s history.
Bangladesh is in the grip of a fresh round of protests by garment workers.
Greece’s year of struggle hit another high point when the seventh full general strike rocked the country on Wednesday 15 December.
Workers in Greece were to end a year of struggle with a general strike this Wednesday 15 December—the day of the government’s budget.
Protests broke out today (Tuesday) as Italy’s corrupt prime minister Silvio Berlusconi survived a vote of no confidence.
The fragile government of Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi suffered another significant blow as students poured onto the streets over the past two weeks to protest against proposed education reforms.
Memories of repression under Franco’s dictatorship returned to Spain at the weekend when a "state of alert" was used to end a strike by air traffic controllers.
