Row in Nigeria over Obama money

"A Nigerian group backing US senator Barack Obama for president has told the BBC the money it raised from a gala event was never meant for his campaign. It is illegal for campaign groups outside the United States to donate funds to US political parties. Earlier this week,...

Why America might be in less danger from the outside than you think

"Corrupt South American and Caribbean politicians need somewhere secure to retire to when they get done raping their countries, somewhere like Miami, the European ones prefer New York, the French-speaking Africans, Paris. "

Census throws up treasure trove for trivia buffs

"Census throws up treasure trove for trivia buffs Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, Migration Correspondent How many Presbyterian Pakistanis live in Ireland? Are there Chinese-born Travellers? Widowed teenagers? Most pressingly, how many Lithuanian immigrants live in semi-detached houses...

Lab suspends DNA pioneer Watson

"The Nobel Prize-winning DNA pioneer James Watson has been suspended by his research institution in the US. Dr Watson has drawn severe criticism over remarks he made in a British newspaper at the weekend. In the interview, he was quoted as saying Africans were less...

Once-puritan South Africa holds its first sex fair

When I lived in South Africa Playboy was illegal.  It seems the country has now found its mojo:"JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans queued to learn about sex toys and pole-dancing this weekend, at the first sex fair ever held in a country founded by conservative...

We will 'play our part' in Africa, says PM

"The Prime Minister called today for further action to end the genocide in Darfur, calling it one of the "great tragedies of our time". Speaking at a Q+A session at his Party's conference, Mr Brown said that he didn't want to look back say "we should have acted, we could have...