A police officer and a Tibetan monk were killed in Sichuan province, southern China, it was reported today, after another Tibetan independence demonstration turned violent

The Chinese authorities hope flame will draw visitors to China, but tourist visas to Tibet remain suspended

Italians are depressed as their country seems trapped in the doldrums. Ed Vulliamy reports on the malaise gripping a nation

Emos admit they have no ideology beyond insisting on their right to do what they want

As the election results showed sweeping success for the opposition MDC, hopes were high of a peaceful handover of power in Zimbabwe. That optimism is ebbing away, reports Chris McGreal in Harare

Académie Française dies slow death as elderly members struggle to find new blood

Hundreds of bird species are in danger from plans to plant sugar cane and build a refinery in Kenya

Bush holds his final meeting with Putin to patch up US's battered relationship with Russia

To luxury cars, luxury jets and luxury yachts, add the luxury pedalo

Opposition leader says Zanu-PF reviving war veterans to terrorize voters before run-off ballot

Brian Cowne is to be Ireland's next Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fail, it has been announced

A Harare motorist who reportedly fled from an accident scene leaving three people critically injured, collapsed and died after travelling for a kilometre away last Wednesday.

THE Police in Tororo recently arrested two men over vandalising electric cables. Sande Ongedi, 30 and Bakali Masifu, 45, were arrested in the taxi park by detective Othieno Olapa of the Central Police Station.

Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has moved to secure a permanent interdict against Terry Crawford-Browne, the arms deal activist who has widely published allegations about Manuel's involvement in the controversial arms deal.

A MAN in Luweero district has been arrested for allegedly impregnating his 16-year-old sister. The Police last week picked up Yusuf Nsubuga, 23, a resident of Butuntumula in Katikamu sub-county, a month after his alleged victim (name withheld) gave birth

Gunmen have killed an Akure based industrialist and philanthropist, Chief Joshua Fagbola popularly called "Titilayo".

GUNMEN on Sunday kidnapped an eleven year old Master Chidi Nzerim after killing the driver of the vehicle he was in and a Police escort.

Paramount ruler of Ibesikpo/Asutan local government area of Akwa Ibom State, Edidem Ita Bassey Etuk, has expressed his disagreement with the Zonal Command in Calabar over the insistence of the AIG in charge of Zone 6 of the Nigeria Police

Two suspected automobile robbers, Mohammed Usman and Alh. Bala Mohammed, all of no fixed addresses have been arraigned before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) magistrate's court at Wuse Zone 6, Abuja.

The Central Bank Governor, Professor Charles Soludo yesterday entered the witness box to give evidence inthe NI billion libel suit he instituted against the publisher of a national newspaper, and the newspaper, saying there was no time he unilaterally awarded