Somebody bothered the Old Testament defining it the Golia's defeat by David's hands. Sure is that the battle between Ilois, a small community of about two thousand people driven off from Chagos archipelago to build a military basis, and the British government has been won, once in a while, by the weakest. Islanders were deported from their lands in the very middle of the Indian Ocean between the 60s and the 70s. On the Diego Garcia, one of the 65 British islands in the archipelago, Americans build one their most important bases

Twenty-three dead and hundreds wounded in clashes for “tribal quotas”

The number of Bucharest's street children has decreased. Because they've grown older

The Minister of Food Security is condemned to death for corruption

The Ottawa Treaty is bearing fruits, but cluster bombs jeopardize the mine cleaning

Ceuta was once the door to Europe for thousands of migrants. Now that door is wide shut. No one can cross the spanish enclave in Morocco anymore, according to the governments of Rabat and Madrid. Moroccan police uses its iron fist with migrants, while Spain lavishly gives money for the development of tourism, an action that generates contracts for the rich spanish companies. The whole coastline from Ceuta to Tetouan swarms with building sites for the entertainment of the european. Just another way of making money, while the desperation that drives the migrants to escape remains the same

"The memory of a glorious past cannot deliberately leave out the dark episodes related to the process of evangelization in Latin America". Benedict XVI concedes that 'dark episodes' happened in the period of evangelization of Latin America

Sentenced to death, Abu-Jamal is about to face a hearing before Philadelphia Federal Court that could save his life

Pogdorica signs non-extradition treaty for US soldiers

Chiquita company explains why it paid 1,7 million dollars to Colombian paramilitary groups

Paedophilia and violence in the virtual community that acts like real life. 'Second life', safe haven for all those who chose to disguise their personality behind an 'avatar', is becoming a receptacle for trade of illegal pictures and files

The regime frees an activist as the European Union decides on sanctions

Is the Gaza Strip a stronghold of radical Islam? Al Aqsa TV, in the last few weeks aired a program hosted by a Mickey Mouse look-alike mouse, which teaches children Islamic values

Sunia is sixteen years old and smiles. Ali Osman Taha, Sudan vice president, is few steps away but today Sunia is probably the most important person here: she is the first patient operated in the Salam heart surgery centre, built by Emergency on the Blue Nile banks