openDemocracy's Public Service Broadcasting Forum of 2010 yielded diverse views on the future direction of British broadcasting. The challenge, in light of Leveson, is to find a positive, participatory definition of the way our media should function.
The summer of 2009 was host to a wave of violence and protest organised by the far right in Britain, leading Communities Secretary John Denham to draw comparisons with the
Lord Malloch-Brown, British minister for the UN, Africa and Asia, admitted in an interview with the Daily Telegraph that British forces "definitely don't have enough helicopters"
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's condemed violence in China's Xinjiang province as "genocide", amongst other notes of solidarity and outrage across the Muslim
Han Chinese vigilantes embarked on a major offensive against Uighur businesses and residences after inter-ethnic violence and the police response claimed 157 lives over the weekend in Urumqi, the capital
Four combat troops were killed in Baghdad overnight just as American forces were handing over security for Iraq's major cities to Iraqi forces. American troops in the capital
Between 45 and 70 mourners were killed yesterday after a US drone targeted a funeral for a senior Taliban militant, killed by a second drone earlier on Tuesday, in South
Iran's highest body, the Guardian Council, has announced it is prepared to partially recount last week's electoral votes in a bid to prevent further unrest. The
The US middle east envoy, George Mitchell, was in Israel today to reassure Israeli president Shimon Peres that their countries would remain "close allies and friends" despite recent
North Korea provoked international outrage yesterday by testing its second nuclear bomb. Seismic tremors confirmed the nation's claims to have successfully tested an underground device as powerful as
US president Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for the first time since either took office yesterday in Washington. They discussed the middle east peace process and
King Abdullah of Jordan predicted war within eighteen months if peace efforts in the middle east are obstructed. An American-Jordanian peace offensive reaches its apogee in coming weeks, the most
