Cries of "Berlusconi, now you know what people think of you!" rang through the streets of Rome last Friday as half a million people demonstrated against the right wing government. Milan and Turin each saw marches of 50,000 too.
"Jet Airways lays off 800 staff". So read the headlines in India’s newspapers on Wednesday of last week. Just 24 hours later they had changed to "Jet Airways reinstates 800 staff".
Events in the Chinese economy and decisions by the Chinese government will have major consequences for how the global recession develops.
George Bush is planning a "surge" of 10,000 US troops to Afghanistan in a desperate effort to turn the tide of defeat there.
Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are on course to transform the US political landscape.
On 28 September, more than 60 percent of Ecuador’s population voted to support a new radical "Bolivarian" constitution.
Last week Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi told people how they could stave off financial disaster – buy shares in two national energy companies – yet by the end of that day’s trading they had lost 7 percent and 8 percent in value.
Is Barack Obama making a turn to the left? His recent statements on the US economy seem to suggest so.
Pasuruan is a small, undistinguished town in East Java. Known nationally in Indonesia as the hometown of popular female singer Inul Daristuta, it recently filled the headlines for a much different reason.
South Africa’s president Thabo Mbeki resigned on Sunday, to be replaced by Kgalema Motlanthe.
The deal between president Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party and Morgan Tsvangirai’s opposition MDC has been widely hailed as heralding the end of the crisis in Zimbabwe.
Masked groups of young men smash their way into government offices, burning documents and destroying everything they can find.
