POLITICS

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University withdraws doctorate after academics find bulk of paper cribbed from other authors.

President Pal Schmitt announced his resignation amid allegations of plagiarism.

Israeli prison authorities punish Palestinian leader after he launches appeal for 'peaceful resistance'.

The Pakistan court sentenced the widows and his two daughters to 45 days in prison with credit time served

American nursery school teacher who poses for lingerie catalogues claim undercover officers filmed her in school yard.

Conference participants want deadline set for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop bloodshed.

Home Office proposes new legislation to allow GCHQ to spy on all private calls, emails and website visits.

Policies, promises, committed campaigning and the charisma of Myanmar/Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung Sang Suu Kyi, have all been pivotal to the landslide win for her party in the country's by-elections for Parliament.

Democracy figurehead beats junta candidate to take seat in parliamentary by-election.

Afghanistan has been the greatest opium producer in the world, which is used to make heroin, the most dangerous drug worldwide.

Aung San Suu Kyi is poised for a clear win in the Myanmar byelection.

Myanmar votes in historic polls, regarded as a test for recently introduced reforms.

Coalition politicians will perform the musical number in an attempt to build bridges with lower wage earners.

Shopping centre race riot by Israel's 'most dangerous fans' may lead to prosecutions, say police.

EU using African legislators as spies and financing opposition groups to instigate violence in Uganda, says president.

Ballot of doctors to be taken over holding first industrial action since 1975.

Italy in shock over desperate protests after two men set themselves alight in two days.

Influential Czech businessman Roman Janoušek is facing up to 13 years in prison for allegedly running over a woman while driving drunken mid-morning.

Land Day has been marked by more violence as clashes erupted between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops.

Iran helps Syria get round boycott by providing tanker to ship oil to China state-run firm.

Smear campaign claims teenager shot dead was thief, drug addict and dealer.

Hactivists claim organisation is self-serving and makes 'mockery of Mexican people'.

Detainee agrees to end fast in return for being exiled to Gaza for three years.

The annual Land Day rally on the Checkpoint Kalandria on the West Bank turned violent today as Israeli security forces fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades to break up groups of Palestinian stone-throwers marching towards Jerusalem.

Hundreds of rare Sumatran orangutans in western Indonesia face imminent death, conservationists warn.

In a surprise twist, the Respect Party candidate and controversial politician George Galloway, has grabbed the so called safe Bradford West parliamentary seat from Labour and won the by election with a landslide 56% of the votes.

Spain is in the grip of widespread strikes and protests that saw a record number of 800,000 people turn out yesterday.

Respect candidate George Galloway secured the Bradford West seat from the Labour, in a sensational win with over 10,000 votes.