Simon Hoggart: Alan Johnson was pretty good at handling questions for the first time in his new job - three stars out of five, perhaps

This government, having lost control of bankers and financial regulations, wants to show how tough it can be on teachers, says Peter Mortimore

I was rather bemused to read an opinion piece suggesting that I had seen the financial crisis coming, says Jonathan Wolff

Michael White: In his quango-cidal speech to the Reform thinktank, the Tory leader disowned Margaret Thatcher's 'bonfire' phrase as simplistic

Marcel Berlins: Justice secretary comes across as hard-hearted and cynical by keeping Ronnie Biggs and Michael Shields in prison

After all this, the Georgian political elite still appears seriously to believe that it is up to Brussels or Washington to solve the question of government-opposition relations in Georgia. The reality is that they can't, and won't. Georgia's problems may

Unfortunately, the country is not saying anything of the sort. Particularly given Turkey's demonstrated eagerness to impose its standards of speech on other countries, it would hardly be unreasonable for Europeans to be concerned about what this means for their

With no respite in sight, violence looks set to peak as the polls approach, exacerbating the plight of the internally displaced.

With recent NATO members Hungary and the Czech Republic motivated to commit huge portions of their defense budgets to the modern Gripen fighter, the plane gains a reputation as the new bargain aircraft, writes Andrew Rhys Thompson for ISN Security

Concerning plans to open an Azerbaijan embassy in Israel, Rasim Musabayov is sure of one thing, "It will be opened even sooner if Iran continues with its negative campaign."

Reacting to the news that the Ethiopian Parliament has today passed an Anti-Terror Proclamation in Ethiopia, Amnesty International warns that the law could restrict freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and the right to fair trial, with serious implications in the

As I've said before, you need to be careful what you post on social networking sites like Facebook. It can get you fired, or in this case, expose the personal details of the new head of the U.K.'s MI6.

A submarine scouring the Indian Ocean on Sunday picked up the signal beacons of the two black boxes of a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed off the Comoros Islands, the French aviation agency said.

Honduras braced for confrontation Sunday as ousted President Manuel Zelaya insisted on coming home to reclaim his post, urging his supporters to mass at the airport for a showdown with the interim government in power since the army sent him

The demographics of Armenia once showed the Azeris as the majority in the country with a ratio of roughly 80 percent Azeri and 20 percent Armenian. In the same year as the Treaty of Turkmenchay was adopted (1828), the Armenian

As the global recession continues to churn, Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday released his third encyclical, called "Charity in Truth," released as the G-8 summit begins in Italy.

Hundreds of demonstrators have returned to the streets of Urumqi, the administrative center of China's Xinjiang province demanding in front of foreign journalists to release their relatives detained during the unrests. The Uyghurs Turks struggled for independence from China throughout

Police have arrested 1,434 suspects in connection with the worst ethnic violence in decades in China's western Xinjiang region, which killed at least 156 people, state media reported Tuesday.

On Tuesday Palm officially announced plans to launch the Palm Pre in the U.K. and Europe "in time for the holidays." First to get the nascent smartphone will be the UK, Ireland and Germany (exclusively on O2), and Spain (exclusively

A British soldier and two Canadians have died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.