Phew.

Musharraf, the military dictator - er, President? - of Pakistan, has made it through the latest set of rigged elections, and remains in control of his country. For now. Only one opposition party was allowed to participate in …

It looks like the major governments of the world are turning a little more interest towards sending manned missions to the moon - and even establishing bases there. Last week, at a global conference on space exploration held in …

“If we don’t walk down this path of dialogue, we’re going to end up in conflagration.”

These words were spoken in New York today by Mary Ellen McNish, general secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization. Quaker …

There is talk of the American right to free speech in reference to the platform that Amadinejad was offered yesterday by Columbia University - and usually it precedes the sound of a but. That’s a but, not a butt. …

Whenever I approach an issue that is obviously vast and foreboding, I have to give a verbal shudder.

Israel.

*Shudder* There. Now, it’s already old news that Israel sent a strike force of F-16s into Syria …

General status reports from Iraq continue to be bleak. Congress’ investigative agency has reported that the Iraqi government has only fulfilled 3 of the 18 benchmark goals it committed to last June, and that the levels of violence between …

The British 2004 Children Act removed the defence of “reasonable punishment” in cases involving offences such as actual bodily harm and child cruelty, thus making an important step forward for child protection. However, it stopped short of banning all …

New Zealand’s main political parties supported a motion Wednesday to support reforms outlawing child beating. This is a laudable move in line with the rest of the first world’s increasingly progressive development.

As expected, around a thousand conservative Christians protested

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