MALE (Reuters) - President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, widely credited with bringing democracy to the hideaway resort islands, resigned on Tuesday after weeks of opposition protests erupted into a police mutiny and what an aide said amounted to a coup. Nasheed, the Maldives' first democratically elected president, handed power over the Indian Ocean archipelago to Vice-President Mohamed ...

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Barrick Gold's Lumwana Mining Company in Zambia has awarded its workers a pay rise of 18 percent, its said on Tuesday, the highest hike by a foreign miner so far this year in Africa's top copper producer. The agreement with unions includes housing and meal allowances as well as stipends for higher education and other perks, the company said in a statement. China Nonferrous ...

When British artist MIA flipped off the camera during the halftime performance with Madonna at the Super Bowl, she was not breaking any laws. Yet, judging from the hypocritical rhetoric oozing from the great people of this nation, you would think she had been advocating drugs or committing some heinous act live on stage in front of 110 million people. MIA gave the finger. It’s an act that ...

South Africa’s government sought to reassure investors as a major mining conference kicked off yesterday that it has no plans to nationalise its mines despite the radical rhetoric of some in the ruling ANC.

Three-quarters of National Journal’s National Security Insiders said the Obama administration’s plan to cut the Pentagon budget was a smart decision driven by the end of the Iraq war and the nation’s current fiscal crisis, dismissing criticism by defense hawks who maintain that chopping nearly $500 billion over 10 years could undermine the military’s capabilities.

He faces a tight Minnesota race, but a worse problem is his weakening position vs. Obama. By Howard Kurtz.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that he did not believe Israel was preparing to attack Iran to disrupt its nuclear programme and that diplomacy remained the “preferred solution� to reso...

David Cameron today hears from business leaders dismayed at Westminster’s anti-business rhetoric.

An example needs to be made of politicians who make negative comments about immigrants if Ireland is to avoid going down a route of an “accepted rhetoric or racism�, Integration Ireland has warned.

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