The controversial debut of Britain's far-right leader on a flagship television debate show has been a ratings bonanza for the BBC, but it's unclear whether British National Party chief Nick Griffin gained from all the attention.
The BBC defended its decision to invite the leader of a white-supremacist party onto its leading political debate show, as protesters prepared to picket the broadcaster's studios during Thursday's taping.
German police say they have searched the headquarters of a far-right party in an investigation of letters it sent to politicians of foreign descent.
A far-right party has sent letters to 30 politicians of foreign descent who are candidates in Germany's national election on Sunday, telling them to leave the country.
Hundreds of anti-fascist protesters tried to block people Saturday from attending a festival held by the far-right, anti-immigrant British National Party, which has been encouraged by recent electoral success.
British far-right leader Nick Griffin was forced to abandon a London press conference Tuesday when egg-throwing demonstrators chased him away.
The Supreme Court ordered a Seoul hospital to heed a family's request to suspend life support for a 76-year-old woman in a coma, a landmark ruling that heralded a shift in South Korean attitudes on death.
- It seems a shame to let the week go by without taking a deep breath and debriefing the first overseas trip by President Barack Obama.
Germany's top security official on Tuesday banned a far-right group on the ground that it organizes seemingly harmless activities to promote racist and Nazi ideology among children and young people.
Investigators say they have taken into custody two people suspected in the stabbing of a police chief in a presumed neo-Nazi attack.
Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day's losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said religious right leaders "kept their own flock in line, but the majority of Americans were unmoved."
Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts.
The longtime treasurer of Germany's leading far-right party was sentenced Friday to two years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of euros from its accounts.
The Bush administration has proposed allowing oil and gas drilling in an area of the Bering Sea considered important for the recovery of the world's most endangered whale.
One of North Korea's worst fears is about to come true: The liberal South Korean government that has pampered Pyongyang with aid while shying from criticism of its rights abuses is about to be swept from office.
A bedridden Spanish woman with muscular dystrophy died Wednesday after doctors fulfilled her wish and turned off her respirator, bringing an end to a case that had triggered a nationwide debate on euthanasia.
A senior member of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party charged with incitement for producing CDs that prosecutors say encouraged violence against foreigners went on trial Tuesday.
The Roman Catholic Church on Friday denied a religious funeral for the paralyzed Italian author who died after a doctor disconnected his respirator, saying it would treat his public wish to "end his life" as a willful suicide.
A look at legislation covering euthanasia and assisted suicide in the industrialized world:
"Let me die," wrote Piergiorgio Welby, paralyzed and confined to his bed by muscular dystrophy and unable to eat, speak or breathe on his own.
A delegate on the outer fringes of Austria's far-right party on Sunday took his leave from the party's convention with "heil" — the greeting associated with Adolf Hitler. The head of the party said he saw nothing wrong with the word.
A liberal activist group bought newspaper and television ads to accuse three conservative leaders of hypocrisy for promoting Christian values while amassing money and political power. The targets of the spots said the accusations were lies.