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With eight months to go before presidential elections, Iranian authorities are now trying to spread terror among online journalists.

Tony Blair has been pressed to return sacred Ethiopian objects and ancient artifacts looted by British troops more than a century ago.

Over 20 sites are now unavailable - Indymedia seeks to know how and why a server outside US jurisdiction can be seized by US authorities.

Law lords are hearing a final appeal over whether Britain had the right to impose special emergency measures to hold 12 foreigners indefinitely without charge.

At the end of Ramadan, a group of Muslims plans to launch the Progressive Muslim Union of North America, proposing, inter alia, that women should have a broader role in mosques.

Reporters Without Borders has condemned a bid to intimidate a blogger after the minister of internal security threatened to imprison the person who runs the weblog.

The commemorative prize goes annually to a woman or group who has, through their writing or campaigning, raised awareness of violence against women and children.

The European Union is considering UK ideas to set up "transit camps" for asylum seekers in countries outside the bloc, possibly in North Africa.

Google's recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from websites blocked by that country's authorities, leading to accusations of Google cooperation with Chinese censorship.

Scientific tests on a range of traditional remedies have shown they have "real benefits", say researchers from King's College, London.