MP defends Ghana cancer case
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An UK MP says the debate over a dying Ghanaian woman being sent home should be about health care in Ghana.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai defended her selection as the first environmentalist to win the prestigious award, saying Thursday it would help others understand that the struggle for peace begins with protecting the
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Opposition National Coalition Party MP Kimmo Sasi has submitted a written question to the government concerning a speech given by President Tarja Halonen at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
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North-west Norfolk MP Henry Bellingham has called for the release of an old college friend accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea.
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Israelâs prime minister said the cancer is not life-threatening and would not distract his work.
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Prime minister defends government's preparations.
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ELEANOR HALL: The Prime Minister has found himself again defending his policy on Iraq, after the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, said today that the US-led invasion was illegal and that the elections planned for Iraq in January would not be
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The environment minister defends her decision to consider a privately-funded Giant's Causeway centre.
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The government's GP leader is to go on a charm offensive after weeks of damaging stories about the profession.
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A Ghanaian woman who came to the UK to study is told she must return to Africa despite being terminally ill.
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Just a day before she is scheduled to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, the Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai tried Thursday to defuse a controversy over reports that she
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As damage to homes hit by the London tornado is assessed,  an MP calls for government help.
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Visiting Defense Minister Robert Hill defended on Friday Canberra&#39;s proposal on a new maritime security zone following Indonesia&#39;s rejection.
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A blood test and an endoscopy on Yasser Arafat have dispelled suspicions he has cancer in his digestive tract, one of the Palestinian leader&#39;s doctors said Wednesday.
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Nigeria's House of Representatives remained closed Thursday as parliamentarians travelled to the northern Katsina state to attend the burial of a lawmaker who died the previous day, an MP told AFP.
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South Africa's health minister on  Sunday defended her AIDS policies after a blistering attack by  a top U.N. official, but newspapers said she had made the  country a laughing stock and demanded her resignation.
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Uganda's former health minister goes on trial accused of embezzling money for vaccines and an Aids fund.