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Former deputy leader of the SDLP Seamus Mallon attacks the DUP and Sinn Fein for "sectarian flag waving".

Solving the world's environmental ills may mean re-thinking the role of nations and national governments.

Patients in the UK's four nations are getting different services following devolution, say health chiefs.

"Many of Brazil's women players have had to overcome prejudice"

Anarchy in the UK is back in the headlines, the phrase being used by the Sun to sum-up a "nation under siege" and by David Cameron on several occasions recently.

The maxim of beauty being in the eye of the beholder is no more true than in people's estimations of modern buildings. To mark Architecture Week, the Magazine is taking some of Britain's most controversial buildings to task.

A meeting due to be addressed by BNP leader Nick Griffin at the University of Bath will now not go ahead.

Communists launch their Welsh assembly manifesto in what they call an historic election for the party.

The Web 2.0 internet phase is attacked by a digital pioneer for its "mob" mentality and termed "digital Maoism."

Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has helped transform the way people use the net to seek out information and now the founder Jimmy Wales is hoping to do the same in the search field.

BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on the tactics of Serbia's nationalist Radical Party, and the charms of the capital, Belgrade.

How do you discipline teenagers when, some at least, see punishment as a reward rather than a penalty?

Traditional farmers near Bucharest discover they must invest and modernise or leave the industry, as Romania gets ready to join the EU.

For China's younger generation, intent on good jobs, Mao's Cultural Revolution means little.

The Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981 is released from a Turkish jail.

BBC Wales' political reporter Adrian Masters takes a look at events at the assembly in Cardiff Bay.

China's tough handling of protests in the village of Taishi throws into doubt its claims to be introducing grassroots democracy, writes Tim Luard.

Full text of potential Conservative leadership candidate Andrew Lansley speech on the party's future.

Lib Dem David Laws on the future of the 1945 welfare settlement.