These scenes followed marches in Madrid yesterday against the cost of the Pope's visit to tax payers estimated at some 50 million Euros. As night fell, the protests turned violent. Police made dozens of arrests and a series of clashes as they tried t...
We are also heavily engaged in preparations for the Paris Conference next week. That will take place a week today on the first of September. It will be chaired by the Prime Minister and by President Sarkozy. I've been discussing the arrangements for...
This continued violence is simply not acceptable, and it will be stopped. We will not put up with this in our country. We will not allow a culture of fear to exist on our streets. 我們絕不接受這種持續的暴力行為，這種行為一定會被...
As Irene travelled north to the Canadian border, she continued to inflict damage, leaving destruction in her wake. Heavy rains falling on already sodden ground, led to widespread flooding and damage in the northeast. It will be a long time before the...
Today, we have again called the Syrian charge in London, here to the foreign office, he has been given 7 days to leave the country, other Syrian diplomats will be expelled, two other diplomats will be expelled at the same time. And our allies and par...
A modest first step in the right direction. The words of the US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton announcing North Korea's freeze of summit its nuclear activities. The move comes just two months after the death of long-time leader Kim Jong Il and a h...
A budget impasse between the White House and Congressional Republicans could force the federal government to shut down on Friday when the current budget law allowing the government to spend money expires. The Republican-led House passed the bill of 6...
The new homes to be built in Gilo, an urban settlement that Israeli raked on land it captured on the West Bank during the 1967 War, for this area of east Jerusalem is where the Palestinians want to put the capital of their future state. They said the...
Some monarchists have been getting in a bit of flap about this. The Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, who was born in Wales, she said that she is a Republican one day, she sees Australia becoming a Republic. Well, she chose not to curtsey a...
Millions of people in five countries across the Horn of Africa are gripped by severe drought and have been for months. But now in one of those countries, Somalia, the UN says that the situation is so bad in some areas, there is famine for the first t...
Billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are hoping China's newly wealthy will embrace philanthropy. 億萬富翁比爾蓋茨和沃倫巴菲特希望中國財富新貴們支持慈善事業。 The men hosted a dinner for over 50 of China's business...
Clashes on the streets of London as British parliamentarians debate increasing student fees. 英國議會下院于表決通過大幅提高大學學費計劃，倫敦街頭再現沖突。 Demostrators angry a plan to raise the amount of students pay f...
This was supposed to be the moment Mitt Romney finally convinced his own party that he was the president in waiting. 羅姆尼要成功說服共和黨他是總統候選人，成敗可能就在這一刻。 But he has the air of a man who believes he w...
Neil White and Diane English have been living in African adventure. 英國夫婦Neil White和Diane最近在非洲陷入了困境。 They toured the West of the continent settling in Timbuktu, but it wasn't all together that kind of destination they h...
He's already signed this strategic partner agreement with Hamid Karzai. 奧巴馬已經與卡爾扎伊總統簽署了美阿戰略合作伙伴協定。 He's the commander-in-chief of armed forces who have now fought in Afghanistan for ten years. 美軍已...
