Senior Taliban figures have arrived in the Maldives to take part in unofficial talks aimed at resolving the continuing crisis in Afghanistan.

Two Democrats voted against ending debate on Wall Street reform in
the Senate on Wednesday, helping defeat a motion for cloture that could
have cleared the way for a final vote before the end of the week and
capping off a day of stubborn opposition from all si

About 300 people gathered at Grand Parade in Halifax to mark the third annual International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on May 17.

<p>The 3,000 marchers at yesterday&rsquo;s Showdown on K Street included a cross-section of union members, community activists and allies from acro...

Sometime within the next two weeks the free-flowing Deepwater Horizon well could surpass the second largest oil spill in history. Indeed, if we assume the highest independently measured estimates of the leak's flow rate, Deepwater Horizon may have already released 84% of the total petroleum that was dumped into the Gulf of Mexico by the Ixtoc I, a similar rig blow-out that occurred in 1979.

The last Eighteen months have seen some of the largest attacks on living standards in
Britain in recent times.