Lagos – Members of the academia on Thursday said that the signing of the Freedom of Information Bill (FOI) into law by President Goodluck Jonathan would align Nigeria with developments in advanced democracies. The bill, signed into law on Tuesday, is expected to expand the frontiers of press freedom in Nigeria. Prof. Peter Okebukola, a [...]

BUDAPEST, June 3 – Hungary’s government plans to enshrine the basic principles of its flat personal income tax system in a law requiring two-thirds parliamentary majority, Economy Minister Gyorgy Matolcsy said on Friday. Matolcsy told website www.fn.hu that the two key principles to be set would be that the personal income tax has to have [...]

Bahrain has lifted martial law after months of pro-democracy protests in what the government hopes will be a sign of the country returning to normal. Bahrain is also looking to get back their leg of the Formula One Grand Prix, which was cancelled in February when protesters, inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, clashed [...]

MANAMA, June 1 (Reuters) – Bahraini Shi’ites say they have endured a reign of terror during 11 weeks of martial law imposed to break up a pro-democracy movement that for the first time threatened the control of a Sunni-ruled Gulf Arab dynasty. Martial law was lifted on Wednesday. The authorities hope this will show investors [...]

The May 26 arrest of former Serbian military leader Gen. R. Mladic evokes serious questions of both moral and legal character. Clearly aware of the shakiness of the indictment Mladic is about to face, the global media tend to avoid touching upon the legal aspect of the Mladic case. It is an open secret that [...]

A controversial Tweet has made the rounds in the UK, outing the identity of a famous football player involved in a scandalous court case. While print media has been barred from releasing this information, the news has spread virally, causing the Prime Minister to consider the effects of social media. UK Prime Minister David Cameron [...]

European Union data privacy rules forcing companies such as Google Inc. (GOOG) and Yahoo! Inc. to seek consent before targeting users with online advertising may sow confusion because of national differences in the way they are applied. Two days before countries are meant to put in place a 2009 law including restrictions on so-called cookies, [...]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s father may have spilled the beans when he told the German newspaper Bild that his daughter-in-law, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is pregnant. “The two do not want to know the gender in advance, but I’m sure it will be a girl and as beautiful as Carla,” Pal Sarkozy told the newspaper. Oops. Oh [...]

Manal, a 32-year-old woman, is planning something she’s never done openly in her native Saudi Arabia: Get in her car and take to the streets, defying a ban on female drivers in the kingdom. Manal and ten other people are organizing a campaign on Facebook and Twitter urging Saudi women with international driver’s licenses to [...]

London (CNN) — British police arrested five men on suspicion of terrorism near a nuclear power plant in northeastern England, they announced Tuesday. The men, all in their 20s and from London, were arrested Monday close to the Sellafield nuclear facility after police officers from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary conducted a “stop check” on their [...]