An impressive 197 households in Edinburgh South have responded to a recent survey by Fred Mackintosh and Mike Pringle MSP on the question of how Scotland moves to a zero waste society. On 13 November Fred and Mike sent their

Edinburgh South Liberal Democrat challenger Fred Mackintosh has renewed his criticism the Government's Post Office Network Change Programme, after a new report by the House of Commons' Public Accounts Committee issued a damning assessment of the process that led to

The brother of a murdered Chechen rebel has appealed for help and protection in an open letter to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, who he believes is not informed of the "true state of affairs" of political murders in Chechnya.

The Russian ambassador to NATO has dismissed concerns about recent war games between Russia and Belarus close to the Polish border, which NATO says were "the largest since the end of the Cold War."

Russia's Constitutional Court has ruled to extend a moratorium on the death penalty that had been set to expire in January 2010, but has yet to ban the practice altogether.