The Democracy Project

The sweeping overhaul of the US immigration system took a major step towards viability when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 to approve a landmark bill offering a path to citizenship for millions.

The Czech Republic’s new President Milos Zeman has ignited a row with the country’s university community, after he blocked the professorship of a critic who marched in a gay rights rally.

Russia on Tuesday said that a top Islamist rebel, deputy to the country’s most wanted militant Doku Umarov, was killed in an operation in the North Caucasus region, where Moscow is fighting a bloody insurgency.

Five bombings and clashes between soldiers and gunmen killed eight people in Iraq on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence that has cost more than 370 lives so far this month.

British Prime Minister David Cameron headed off another Conservative rebellion after the opposition Labour Party helped him see off a “wrecking amendment” which had threatened his gay marriage bill.

British Prime Minister David Cameron headed off another Conservative rebellion after the opposition Labour Party helped him see off a “wrecking amendment” which had threatened his gay marriage bill.

Top White House aides knew of a scandal over tax officials targeting conservative groups in April, but did not tell President Barack Obama, in a possible bid to insulate him from political damage.

Actor and humanitarian Sean Penn called Monday for the Dakar Rally to cancel its debut run in Bolivia unless an ailing American businessman being held under house arrest there is released.

US lawmakers debating a landmark immigration bill on Monday approved the provision of 5,000 visas to Tibetan refugees to enter the United States over the next three years.

With his high-pitched voice, square spectacles and stubbly chin, Jordi Evole is not your typical dashing television presenter. That doesn’t stop three million Spaniards switching on to watch him every Sunday evening.