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Democracy has in the last few months seen its popularity soar in all corners of the planet. With Egypt and Tunisia both managing to chase their dictators out of town and Gaddafi still insisting that Libya is the only democratic country on the planet, masses and leaders alike have been fighting to grab a piece of the democratic pie. Last week it was the turn of rising giant China to take us all by surprise as the country made a push for democracy...in the IMF.

With media restrictions lifted, it has come light that Lord Alan Sugar was ordered to remove a Tweet from his Twitter page in January this year, leading to speculation about possible future Twitter censorship laws.

Barack Obama's visit to Ireland and the United Kingdom was a barely disguised electioneering stunt, which saw the U.S. President grasping vainly at cultural straws.

Bosnian war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic has finally been arrested after being on the run for more than fifteen years.Serbian broadcaster B92 was the first to report the arrest and said the suspect had been using the name Milorad Komadic while earlier on an interior ministry official confirmed to Reuters that a suspect was being held.Talking about the man in custody he said:"He has some physical features of Mladic, we are analysing his DNA now," the official said on condition of ano...

Speaking at the e-G8 Internet forum in Paris, Twitter's head of operations in Europe Tony Wang, indicated that the company would be willing to hand over user information should it be "legally required" to do so.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, has today attacked the social networking site Twitter, questioning its policy to allow extreme views to be freely expressed regardless of their legal status in super injunctions or possible nature as hate speech.

UK privacy laws lay in tatters this morning after an MP used parliamentary privilege to name Ryan Giggs as the player at the centre of an on going injunction row.

The married footballer at the centre of the Twitter injunction row has been named in Parliament.

As arguments continue to rage about whether super-injunctions should be allowed to protect any form of reporting about certain issues, the High Court has once again refused to allow journalists to name the married footballer alleged to have had a sexual relationship with reality TV star Imogen Thomas, despite controversial moves from Twitter and The Sunday Herald, which concluded in a large part the public guessing game surrounding the identity of the sportsman.

The Sunday Herald and the Sun have by their actions shown (if it were not already apparent) the madness of super injunctions taken out by the rich and powerful.

Calls to name the footballer who had an alleged affair with model Imogen Thomas saw a spike in search traffic on Twitter and crashed the Scotland Herald's website last night. As of midday the Scottish newspaper's website is still down.

The first death penalty following the revolution that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak, has been handed down as a police officer found guilty of killing protesters was sentenced to death.

The law surrounding privacy injunctions intensified on Sunday when The Sunday Herald printed a front-page photograph of the footballer alleged to have had an affair with the model Imogen Thomas.

After the historic symbolism of the previous two days, the third day of the Queen's Ireland visit was understandably muted.

The high court has partially lifted the gagging order brought by Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, after details of his alleged extra-marital affair were made public in the House of Lords.

Alex Salmond was today sworn in to the role of First Minister a day after his re-election by MSPs.

Stephen Lawrence's killing in 1993 while he waited for a bus in Eltham and the subsequent trials and events have revealed and also changed many things in British life including laws and reforms to public services like the police force.

Ed Miliband, the labour leader, has called for Ken Clarke to resign over comments made in a radio interview.

Rapists who plead guilty could see their jail sentences halved under new Government proposals, Justice Secretary Ken Clarke confirmed in the Commons yesterday.

Another Premier League football player has taken out an injunction to keep details of an affair from being reported.

Over 100 days in 1994, after the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana the 6th April 1994, Rwanda's Hutu majority led by the government carried out the organized slaughter of the country's Tutsi minority and any Hutus who sympathized with them, killing an estimated 800 000 people in the space of three months. In July of the same year, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) finally managed to gain hold of the country and the killings started to decrease.

The former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas subject to a gagging order by a Premiership footballer has been accused of blackmailing the well known star.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first ever permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to promote the rule of law and ensure that the gravest international crimes do not go unpunished and is complementary to national criminal jurisdictions.It was set up in the wake of genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and created in 2002 by the Rome Statute Treaty.While the court is widely understood to be a great international achievement, it has also been cri...

Yesterday the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi, raising as they did so an interesting question. Why does the ICC only seem to target African despots?

The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor has today announced he is seeking the arrest of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and two others for crimes against humanity.

Both Jeremy Clarkson and Jemima Khan were forced to deny weekend rumours that they have individually taken out gagging orders preventing intimate photos of the pair from being published.

After being arrested on Saturday over allegations of serious sexual assault, Dominique Strauss-Khan has made his first public appearance handcuffed and surrounded by policeman. He was taken to an unknown location while waiting for his hearing to start in a Manhattan court later on today.

Less than two weeks after the world watched him get married in Westminster Abbey, Prince William has saved a retired Hong Kong High Court judge who suffered a heart attack while out walking in Snowdonia.

Greg Mortenson, author of the bestseller "Three Cups of Tea," has been sued for fraud in a class-action case accusing him of fabricating much of his story to promote the book and his Montana-based charity.

Makwaia wa Kuhenga writing for Tanzania's leading English language newspaper, The Citizen, on Sunday 17 April 2011, tells us he witnessed the Libyan troops of Colonel Qaddafi being mowed down, scores of them being buried and the rest rounded up and returned home. This was during a little known war in October 1978, now almost forgotten in the West, when Colonel Qaddafi gave military support to General Idi Amin of Uganda on his invasion and annexation of the Kagera salient in Tanzania.