One of the most extraordinary people I have met in 10 days of travelling around Peru and Ecuador has been Alberto Costa. He’s head of Ecuador’s leading research group now, but until 2007 was the second most powerful man in the country after...

At least six people have died after a cassiterite mine collapsed in Burundi, 120km (75 miles) north of the capital. Three other people injured in the accident have been taken to hospital, and another four are missing. The authorities in Kayanza...

A woman who got caught dumping a cat into it’s owners wheelie bin has been charged with animal cruelty after she was seen on the security camera, dumping the cat into the bin. Forty five year old Mary Bale was charged for causing the unnecessary...

Ghana’s main opposition party named veteran leader Nana Akufo-Addo as its candidate for the 2012 presidential election, set to be the first such poll in the West African state after the start of oil production later this year. Akufo-Addo, a...

A Finnish court has sentenced a Rwandan man to life imprisonment for committing genocide in his home country in 1994. The Porvoo District Court says 59-year-old Francois Bazaramba had intended to “destroy in whole or part the Rwandan Tutsis as a...

The haunting mystery of Britain’s headless Romans may have been solved at last, thanks to scars from a lion’s bite and hammer marks on decapitated skulls. The results of forensic work, announced today, on more than 80 skeletons of...

Press Release: June 4th 2010, Brussels: European Organization of Pakistani Minorities organized a peaceful hunger rally today outside the European Parliament in Brussels during the visit of the Pakistani Prime Minister. The group of protestors...

Twelve people have been killed and 25 injured by a gunman who opened fire in west Cumbria. A body thought to be that of the suspect - taxi driver Derrick Bird - has been found in the Boot area. The first fatality was in Whitehaven before the gunman...

Previously secret papers declassified Friday revealed that British ballerina Margot Fonteyn was heavily involved in plotting a coup to overthrow Panama’s government, detailing how her clandestine political activities both exasperated and amused...

I have always been attracted by the romance of Latin America. I was about 13 when I saw the documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and I was utterly taken in. Venezuela’s charismatic indigenous leader had been overthrown by powerful...