Inevitably some wit is going to suggest that the EU Birds and Habitats Directives signed into law yesterday by Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan is for the birds.

The Unfinished Global Revolution: The Limit of Nations and the Pursuit of a new Politics

FARMERS are frequently advised to concentrate on what they can control inside the farm gate, and leave matters which depend on global markets or politics to work themselves out.

Ukraine's Orange Revolution allies made a strong showing in parliamentary elections and looked poised to win a majority that could steer the country more firmly on to a pro-Western course, an exit poll showed.

THE pro-gun lobby in the US is summed up for many by actor Charlton Heston brandishing a musket and declaring “If you want to take my gun away, you’ll have to take it from my cold, dead hands.”

Former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced in Ukraine’s parliament that a coalition of Orange Revolution allies had formed a new government.

FORMER Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma is expected to be questioned this week over the grisly murder of an opposition reporter, after his former interior minister implicated in the killing was found dead in what police have called a suicide.

Kirtsen Dunst is set to reunite with Sofia Coppola on a film which will look at the life and times of France's most controversial monarch, Queen Marie Antoinette.

Tens of thousands of Iranians mounted an anti-US protest in Tehran’s Freedom Square today to mark the twenty-third anniversary of the Islamic revolution, which overthrew the US-backed Shah.