The global financial crisis has hit Brazil’s labour market and shaken the trade union movement from its slumber after several years of economic boom and employment growth.

The worsening recession is hitting foreign workers from the ex-Soviet republics far harder than it is affecting Russians.

George W. Bush entered the White House in 2001 with the least foreign policy experience and the most modest foreign policy programme of any modern U.S. president.

A group of former political prisoners in Chile will become actors and actresses this month to heal the wounds left by the 1973-1990 dictatorship. They will be performing a cycle of plays written in torture camps and in exile.

'But the [George W.] Bush administration was never seriously interested in helping veterans. The sorry state of care for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans is not an accident. It's on purpose.'

Reports from non-governmental organisations and the United Nations on the humanitarian situation in the north-eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) state that over 400 civilians were killed at the end of last month by the Lord’s Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel faction with bases in that part of the country.

summit kicked off in the Ghanaian capital of Accra Sunday, with a three-day gathering of the AU Assembly -comprising heads of state and government.

Following the political tsunami in March, which propelled a disparate opposition alliance to power in five of 13 Malaysian states, voters in the capital of oil-rich Terengganu state will determine Saturday if an 'east coast monsoon' will drive the alliance closer to national power.

The main artery of Damascus's famous covered souk (market) sports a giant red banner expressing -- in Arabic and English -- the disgust and anguish of a nearby private business for the Israeli military's attacks on Gaza.

As China rushes to implement its four trillion yuan (585 billion US dollars) economic stimulus package, success is seen dependent on the ability of government officials to come up with free land for the hundreds of new infrastructure projects like airports and housing that Beijing hopes will lift growth and keep recession at bay.