Two weeks later and the people of Zimbabwe still have no idea who the country’s official president is because elections results have still not been declared. The BBC is reporting that a high court judge will decide on whether the...

Over the past few days we've heard some harrowing stories from the refugees, but one interview we conducted yesterday really got to Angie and I. We met with Wayhda Abead Al Wahed, a mother of six children, at her two roomed home in the...

A BBC World Service programme describes the research of Dr Anne-Marie Brady of Canterbury University in New Zealand who has been studying the propaganda methods used by the Chinese authorities. The recent international travels of the...

Teachers' leader Steve Sinnott died last weekend. As leader and previously deputy general secretary of the NUT , he had close relations with its sister unions in Northern Ireland, the Ulster Teachers' Union and the Irish National...

Written by Katrin Jonsdottir, from Iceland, who is spending three months in the Edinburgh office: If I was a Chinese citizen living in China I would not have the opportunity to publish this blog today. The Chinese authorities do not...