HUMAN RIGHTS

It was George Orwell who made famous the line, “Big Brother is watching you” when he published ‘’1984” back in 1949. That was in the era of telexes, telegrams and the old AT&T.

For over two decades, India has maintained hundreds of thousands of armed forces in this border state where a violent insurgency, partially fueled by training and funds from Pakistan, raged for several years.

Ever since she can remember, Katherine Cummings knew she had been born into the wrong body.

Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping praised Mugabe as an old friend of China.

With defected army soldiers attacking more buildings in Syria, Russia is calling for talks between President Bashar al-Assad and opposition leaders to end what is looking very much like a civil war.

President Barack Obama said Thursday the U.S. military will expand its role in the Asia-Pacific region despite budget cuts, declaring America was here to stay as a Pacific power which would help shape the region's future.

Facebook has come under fire in recent weeks over claims that the company violates users' privacy by publicizing too much of individual's personal information. Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar explains how cookies are used to track members and non-members' information even after they've logged out of the site.

Occupy London protestors were given 24 hours to vacate their camp outside of St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday afternoon, one day after the midnight eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protestors in New York.

Syrian army defectors attacked an intelligence complex on the edge of Damascus early Wednesday, the first such reported assault on a major security facility in the eight-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.

There is an attempt to change the State of Israel, this is what Netanyahu wants to do, she said.

Although dowries are illegal and a criminal offense, the act is still widely practiced in South Asia.

Erdogan’s comments followed a call by the King of Jordan, Abdullah, for Assad to step down

Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday rejected a move to downgrade the abuse-of-power offence under which former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been jailed, dealing a blow to prospects of an early release for the charismatic opposition leader.

At least 69 people were killed in southern Syria on Monday, most of them in clashes between army deserters and troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, activists said on Tuesday.

The entire affair paints a poignant picture of the idea of freedom of religion in Iran, where Zoroastrians are vulnerable to pressures of conversion, official retaliation and discriminatory practices in employment and education.

Hu Xiao, an executioner is China, has stated that his job is usually not very complicated.

Khan, a vociferous opponent of the current leadership in Pakistan, has also spoken out against the rise of Islamic militancy.

Equatorial Guinea's proposed constitutional changes are on course to be approved after virtually all the results from 60 percent of the polling stations were in favour, according to a government statement on Monday.

Sudan could see the next Arab revolution because anger is rising over an economic crisis and government repression worse than in Egypt before the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, an opposition leader said on Monday.

The Malaysian states of Penang and Malacca, which retain a colonial-era penal code criminalizing sodomy, are considering even stricter laws against the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender communities, allowing them the authority to punish offenders twice.

A former Guantanamo chief prosecutor and an outspoken critic of military commissions, Col. Morris Davis, is condemning President Barack Obama's national security policy, saying his presidency seems to him like a third Bush term.