Despite President Barack Obama’s formation of a new task force to review government secrecy, and an ongoing investigation into use of the so-called 'state secrets doctrine', lawyers for the new administration refused last week to disclose information on the government’s use of warrantless wiretaps and backed legislation to block the release of photos of prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Drug trafficking was once thought to be a largely Latin American problem, but the international community increasingly finds itself fighting this phenomenon in Africa.

Handed down from generation to generation, traditional knowledge about medicinal plants has reached state laboratories in Brazil through a programme that has already identified 71 native and exotic species for producing herbal medicines.

South Africa is slowly moving towards exploring renewable energy sources, having set itself a target of three percent of energy being generated from renewable sources by 2013.

Politics is no rocket science,' says Yasmeen Rehman, a woman parliamentarian in Pakistan’s Lower House, adding, 'It is not as difficult as it is made out to be.'

The compensation for managers must be capped at 15 times that of workers, civil society groups demanded Sunday following a conference in Florence.

Tiananmen Square is history. Or at least that is the belief shared by many on the campus of China’s top university.

A report from one of the world’s top energy consultancies says oil production in Canada’s tar sands could see a five-fold increase by 2035.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has asked the European Commission to call a meeting between the agency and countries around the Mediterranean to work out a joint strategy to deal with irregular migration.

A verdict by a provincial court is poised to deepen the sense of injustice felt by Thailand’s Malay-Muslim minority in the country’s southern provinces, where an insurgency has been raging for over five years.