The United Food and Commercial Workers\' Union in Canada has raised concerns over the future of hundreds of workers on the farm work programme in that country.
An internal review has cleared United States President-elect Barack Obama\'s team of any wrongdoing in relation to the intended sale of Obama’s vacant senate seat by Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
Members of Parliament in Iraq have authorized the government to sign agreements allowing British and other non-US troops to stay on in the country after 2008.
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials yesterday said their agents arrested more than 100 Caribbean nationals in a major immigration sweep in South Florida.
Gay groups and activists have reportedly reacted angrily after Pope Benedict XVI said that mankind needed to be saved from a destructive blurring of gender.
Five sticks of explosives were this morning found in department store in Paris after a letter was delivered to local media warning of possible bomb threats.
Thousands of protestors yesterday demanded the release of a local TV reporter who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush at a news conference in Baghdad.
The head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, is warning that efforts to boost the troubled economies of wealthy nations could cause serious damage to developing countries.
