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. 我们绝不接受这种持续的暴力行为，这种行为一定会被...
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. 亿万富翁比尔盖茨和沃伦巴菲特希望中国财富新贵们支持慈善事业。 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. 英国议会下院于表决通过大幅提高大学学费计划，伦敦街头再现冲突。 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. 罗姆尼要成功说服共和党他是总统候选人，成败可能就在这一刻。 But he has the air of a man who believes he w...
Neil White and Diane English have been living in African adventure. 英国夫妇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. 奥巴马已经与卡尔扎伊总统签署了美阿战略合作伙伴协定。 He's the commander-in-chief of armed forces who have now fought in Afghanistan for ten years. 美军已...
