As Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner flew over Buenos Aires, a voice interrupted the helicopter’s radio communication. "Kill her, kill the ‘mare’," it said, before playing a military march – the one used by the junta that "disappeared" 30,000 workers, students, intellectuals and political activists during its rule from 1976 to 1983.
UN investigator Philip Alston has reported that footage of Sri Lankan soldiers executing prisoners last year was authentic.
Peter Robinson, the first minister of Northern Ireland, has resigned – temporarily, he claims.
"Racial cleansing" returned to western Europe last weekend.
The video (in French) shows Gaza Freedom March in Cairo at the end of December
The opposition movement that emerged after Iran’s presidential election last June has defied the government clampdown by using official events to organise mass demonstrations.
Foreign secretary David Miliband has posed as a friend of the movement, calling on the Iranian government to "respect human rights".
A vicious little war has broken out in the Middle East, along Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen. It is rooted in a struggle for control over the strategically vital Arab country.
Faced with growing anger in Britain at the bloody war in Afghanistan, prime minister Gordon Brown last month chose to put the blame for its failures on Pakistan.
Pakistan was formed in 1947 when the British Empire partitioned the Indian subcontinent as it withdrew. The new state was proclaimed as a "Muslim nation", but it was made up of six different linguistic groups, each with different traditions.
The economic crisis in Ireland has resulted in a series of vicious attacks on workers.
