Journalist Rosie Boycott called for a reform of social care for older adults as she explained what happened when her father developed dementia and ended up going into a home.

EU countries are intensifying efforts to agree an oil boycott and muscular financial sanctions against Iran, which is squaring up the option of shutting down the Hormuz Strait as a response.  More »

Islamabad shows its outrage over the killing during a Nato air strike of 24 of its soldiers by pledging to shun next month's meeting in Germany

Only athletes would be hurt by an Indian vote to pull out of London games over Dow sponsorship, says governing body

Tessa Jowell MP, Labour's Shadow Olympics Minister, responding to the news that the Indian Olympic Association will be holding a vote next month on whether or not to boycott the London Olympic Games said:

Students boycott economics course by former Republican adviser, citing a bias towards a destructive brand of free-market economics

The Welsh Language Society ends its campaign asking people not to pay the BBC licence fee over changes to the way S4C is funded.

How has the United States boxed itself into an extremely dangerous corner by becoming increasingly reliant on our historic adversary, the Communist Chinese, for critical resources! As one example, the United States faces the ever-present potential for China to dump the US treasury bonds it already owns on the global financial markets, or to boycott our treasury auctions all together. Either of the...

US Spanish only channel Univision is holding a GOP presidential debate - but Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney will be giving it a miss. The reason? Oh, nothing much. The five candidates are refusing to participate at the request of three Florida Hispanic Republican lawmakers who accused Univision of running a 'news' story about the 24-year-old drug ...

There are times when the petty, partisan nature of Scottish politics, and of its politicians, causes feelings that are close to despair. Such a time is now, thanks to the ludicrous behaviour of a certain Jim Murphy.