LONDON: British lawyers for a nine-year-old boy due to be removed from Britain were yesterday urgently trying to stop his deportation.

KABUL: In dwelling on the need to combat corruption, to talk to the Taliban and to transfer control of policing Afghanistan from foreign troops to ... more

PREPARE yourselves for the trial of the century, if not the millennium. If you thought the O. J. Simpson or Michael Jackson cases were sensational, ... more

LONDON: The High Court has flatly rejected claims by the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, that releasing evidence of the CIA's inhuman and unlawful treatment ... more

LIFE remains tough for these child labourers, working at a balloon workshop in Kamrangir Char, Bangladesh, 20 years after the United Nations adopted a treaty ... more

Indonesia has begun negotiating a new arrangement to handle asylum seekers with the Rudd Government as the country's foreign affairs minister called on Australia to ... more