Simon Reeve travels along the Tropic of Cancer in a BBC series. He certainly gets off the beaten track. In this evening's programme he started in Western Sahara and travelled by various transport eastwards across Africa, almost to...

Happy Persian New Year to all those who celebrate it. We Iranians hope to have a peaceful and free Iran in the coming year.

This week the Damos de Blanco (Ladies in white) descended on the streets of Cuba. They are a group of Cuban women relatives of men who were arrested in a major crack down by Fidel’s authorities in March 2003. Many of the men arrested...

One of the most seductive misperceptions that humans tend to be inclined toward, is the belief that they would not be capable of committing atrocity. Especially today, in post World War Europe. There is an unerring confidence that we...

Spiked batons, thumb cuffs and stun belts are not exactly commodities you’ll see on a shopping channel or your average retail catalogue here in the UK. But these tools of torture – which really are the stuff of nightmares – are...