When Jaafar al-Rakabi was growing up, his mother and father told him Americans are good people. Good people despite the fact that the U.S. military dropped bombs on his hometown of Baghdad twice within 12 years.

Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU's 'Mr Euro', has given the clearest warning to date that the world authorities may take action to halt the collapse of the dollar and undercut commodity speculation by hedge funds.

CNN was forced to apologise today after a news commentator called the Chinese as a “bunch of goons and thugs”.

In Mexico, a spate of attacks by punks and other groups on the "emo" movement has thrown a spotlight on the rapid growth of "urban tribes" of disaffected, tech-savvy teens and young adults.

The economy is broken, social cohesion non-existent and Wandsworth nick is safer than Wandsworth Common: welcome to New Labour's Britain, says Jeff Randall.