Opinion, Jane Martinson: Senior BBC executives believe the challenges other media face are forcing us to lash out at such publicly supported competitors

Marcel Berlins: Hastily drawn, ill-thought out legislation created in panic rarely works

Charlie Brooker: How the BBC, ITV and Sky trumped Glastonbury for Jacko hysteria

Laura Barton on why this year's Glastonbury bill illustrated just how many extraordinary female musicians currently lead popular music

Andrew Rawnsley: This week, the prime minister will promise to make public services more accountable and responsive to those who use them

Keep untrained officers off frontline at demos, says highly critical Commons committee report

Senior labor source says defence budget faces 10% fall in public spending cuts

Government lawyers investigating claims of mistreatment in Kabul jail say there is a case for the army to answer

Statement from pontiff apparently lays to rest the mystery of a tomb first discovered in the city in 2006

Thinktank says small and often informal courts make decisions on divorce or children under sharia law beyond their legal remit

As US troops pulled out of Iraqi towns ahead of today's deadline, Obama's supporters hailed the move as the first step in fulfilling his election promise to responsibly withdraw, but the real tests are yet to come, Shaun Waterman writes

Nevertheless, gender and sexuality students will continue to bring these issues to the forefront of their own studies which will inevitably spillover into the broader concerns of IR and security studies.

Expect the diplomacy to intensify. Already Georgia may have had to two districts carved away. Azerbaijan seems to have lost a province. Afghanistan and Pakistan look suspiciously fragile. Watch for splits in the other Stans.

Ross also believes that US public diplomacy efforts could drive demand for internet access around the world. "Obama putting an online video out there targeted to Persian speakers will make them want to go online," he said. Other such activities

The economic recession is imposing intense strains on people and communities worldwide. The growing power of business can intensify their problems. A human-rights perspective offers both a means of self-defence and a route-map to a fairer world, says Annabel Short

Ethiopia's draft counterterrorism law could punish political speech and peaceful protest as terrorist acts and encourage unfair trials if enacted, Human Rights Watch said today. The government and members of parliament should amend the draft law, which may otherwise be

This paper analyses Ethiopia's draft Anti-Terrorism Proclamation (the draft Proclamation) and assesses to what extent the proposed law on its face conforms to international human rights standards. The draft law has been submitted to Parliament by the Council of Ministers

THE East African Community (EAC) has approved $8.58m (sh18.5b) to support various projects and programmes for the financial year 2009/10. "The upscaling of support to the EAC from $640,920 during 2006/07 to $1.9m in 2007/08 and then to $6.6m in

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MIAMI, FL (June 29) In the ongoing prosecutions by the joint DOJ-HHS task force, another physician, Roberto Rodriguez was sentenced to 97 months in prison and ordered to pay over $9,000,000 in restitution in connection with $20,000,000 in fraudulent claims