High-school students are protesting outside their schools in France, with entrances blockaded and the institutions and security forces resp...

Around 400 educational institutions in France will remain closed as protests escalate regarding education-related problems. The protests be...

Colonel Michael Randrianirina has stepped into the spotlight as Madagascar's new president, asserting a military rule that will last up to ...

Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina has fled the country aboard a French military aircraft following weeks of mass protests. The youth-l...

Across the globe, student movements have historically challenged established powers, sometimes succeeding and other times facing brutal sup...

Some commentators have quipped that it doesn't make sense for the French to essentially be on stand-by for protest at all times, when they ...

Outrage over the 22-year-old's death on September 16, three days after she was arrested by Iran's notorious morality police, has fuelled th...

Student demonstrations having started to build up in France over the last week, with some teachers and students protesting against keeping ...

But the country's efforts to integrate Muslim immigrants have faltered. The official French doctrine of colorblindness is intended to ignor...

The prime minister said by opposing big reformative steps by the Centre, such forces were making themselves socially irrelevant in the coun...

Singh has instructed that proper security must be ensured for pilgrims of the ongoing Amarnath Yatra, the sources said.

A group of TDP MPs met Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Friday and demanded that she take up their no-confidence motion immediately and start the...

An extensive fund raising campaign is being undertaken by secessionist Sikh groups in Europe and North America at the instance of Pakistan'...

UBS, the European bank with the highest losses from the US subprime crisis, said its top executives won’t get any bonus payments for 2008.

Ivory Coast's government agreed on Sunday to cut the fixed price of diesel fuel to partially offset a hefty rise earlier this month that ca...

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Friday during a visit to China that he was against a boycott of the Olympic Games...

Former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has criticised Paris's decision to honour the Dalai Lama and stressed there is no "confro...