POLITICS

Experts have warned that a Mayan prophecy predicting the world will end on 21 December, 2012 may be just an error in translation.

A South African human rights organization has announced its intention to file a law suit against Qatar and its broadcaster Al-Jazeera after a journalist was deported from the Gulf state because he was HIV positive.

There are lots of political themes in the nativity story and we shouldn't ignore them, says a theology lecturer.

Five men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after illegal immigrants travelling from Libya to Italy were thrown overboard in a voodoo ritual.

The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has hinted that Europe might become a “United States of Europe” after advocating a “fiscal union” policy within the eurozone.

Muammar Gaddafi's daughter Aisha has this week reiterated calls for the overthrow of the Libyan transitional government. Is she positioning herself to be the leader of a Libyan counter revolution?

Italian public broadcasting service RAI banned use of the word profilattico, or condom, on World AIDS Day, Italian newspapers reported.

Chicken fast-food chain Nando's has pulled the controversial television ad that teased Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, following an angry backlash in his home country.

Private conversations between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife have been secretly recorded, according the Turkish EU Minister.

The drug level as seen in Britain, also dubbed as the "cocaine capital of Europe", is above than the levels seen in the U.S. and Australia, said a media report.

With just under a week before the European Commission, the eurozone is on a knife edge. The International Business Times UK outlines the possible scenarios for the euro in 2012.

While on a training break in California on Apache helicopters, the third-in-line to the throne won a 6ft giant toy at the Universal Studios theme park.

The Prime Minister has tried to play down old friend Jeremy Clarkson's comments.

Aung San Suu Kyi, has insisted that Burma's advances towards democracy are real and that trusting the government's promises is a risk worthwhile taking, ahead of Chatham House Prize win on Thursday.

The European Union agreed Thursday it would impose fresh sanctions on Iran as a response to the country's alleged nuclear programme.

Aisha Gaddafi's Call for the overthrow of the National Transitional Council (NTC) in Libya has angered Algeria, it emerged Thursday.

In an interview with the International BusinessTimes, the shadow Europe Minister, Emma Reynolds, has launched a scathing attack on the prime minister’s handling of the euro crisis.

Whistleblowing website Wikileaks today released 287 files that it claims detail phone bugging and surveillance of whole populations by governments in what has been described as an "uncontrolled cancerous growth".

Moscow has launched a team of Space Defence Troops, a combat arm of air, space and missile defence commands.

Italy is the most corrupt country in the eurozone, along with Greece, and has scored less than Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Ghana in the 2011 Corruption Perception Index, compiled by German-based NGO Transparency International.

Iran planned to attack U.S. military bases on German soil in the event of a strike by the Esdt against the Islamic Republic's suspected nuclear bomb installations , Bild newspaper reported.

The London-based human rights watchdog Thursday published a report accusing the Gulf state of conducting a campaign of repression against Arab Spring-inspired protesters and reformers.

Israel, despite being the 100th smallest country in the world has, outside of the U.S., the highest number of high-tech start-ups, estimated to be 4,000.

A new book giving Dominique Strauss-Kahn's version of the Diallo scandal says the maid who accused him of sexual assault actually propositioned him.

The governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has stated his intentions to look after the UK banks “whatever direction the debt storms come from.”

What would happen if Mark Zuckerberg suddenly decides to delete Facebook and kill himself? Would our society plunge into chaos? A new parody explores this sci-fi possibility.

Apple's voice activated personal assistant Siri has caused outrage in America, after it was found that the application offers "anti-choice crisis pregnancy centres" instead of abortion clinics.

The challenge has six parts, each containing three puzzles, and all leading to a single answer which takes the form of a 9-letter word with a mathematical connection.

The west should not fear Islamists parties emerging from the Arab Spring but embrace them, Qatar's Prime Minister said Thursday.