Right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri, owner of the Boca Juniors soccer team, is the recognized favorite in the Buenos Aires mayoral elections coming up Sunday. The 48-year-old Macri, son of Franco Macri, chief of a financial empire, is running against the Minister of Education in the Kirchner government, Daniel Filmus, who began the campaign with a twenty-point advantage. Analysts say Macri’s success in running Argentina’s most beloved team has convinced the public that he’s a trustworthy administrator and a symbol of change after a decade of progressive governments who have left behind widespread discontent

Hanefi is a free man again. At 4 p.m. afghan time, he got out of the prison door

Fighting escalates again in the troubled Russian Republic

In Southern Thailand, war between Muslims and Buddhists rages on

Anti-government demonstrations in the Chinese provinces are being publicised on the Web

Given his position on key issues, it’s no wonder Fred Thompson is popular with conservative American voters. He supports the war in Iraq and cutting taxes; he’s against gun control, abortion, and easy immigration. He’s second in the polls among Republican candidates, behind ex-New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, which is no small feat considering that he hasn’t yet officially announced his candidacy

Prachanda's Maoists have cheated: they bypassed the peace agreements commitments, thus deceiving the UN Nepalese mission (Unmin). A fraud that is putting the whole peace process at risk. The deal that last November stopped ten years of civil war – with more than 13,000 victims – was to intern all the People Liberation Army (PLA) Maoist guerrillas in 28 camps managed by Unmin and dismantle all the parallel government structures that “the Reds” created in the areas under their control

A halt to the illegal logging in the province that was most hit by the tsunami

UK highest court rules that the Convention for human rights can be applied to British armed forces abroad

Some proposals to legalize the ivory trade polarize the Continent

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

The case against British government has been won. The inhabitants driven off by the Diego Garcia will finally get back home

Interview with Francesco Gosetti di Sturmeck, European Union Ambassador to Haiti

According to the investigations of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and Save the Children Sweden, just in the city of Kandahar 14 cases of children sexual abuse have been reported recently, but at least the double remained undisclosed, due to the fear of the victims of being jailed or being beaten or killed by their parents

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