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The Equality and Human Rights Commission is urging the British government to ratify the UN Disability Convention

A new child employment law will protect young people and bring Jersey closer to meeting UN criteria on the rights of the child, says minister.

A comic book convention is to boast links to a 1980s graphic novel which has been adapted for Hollywood.

The UK government is criticised for failing to ratify a UN Convention giving new rights for disabled people.

A robot radiotherapy machine to treat cancer is to be available in the UK for the first time from February.

Two Iraqis accused of killing two British soldiers appeal against a decision to hand them to Iraqi authorities for trial.

Vintage buses take to the roads of a Cumbrian town to make up for the lack of conventional Boxing Day transport.

BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Franks sends the latest edition of his diary from Jerusalem.

Donegal GAA chairman Sean Kelly holds off challenges to keep his role at Thursday evening's annual county convention.

The BBC's Paul Reynolds looks at the origin and effect of the UN Human Rights Declaration, whose 60th anniversary is being celebrated.

BBC News explores the issues surrounding the detention of suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

Ghanaian voters go to the polls on Sunday to elect the West African country's next president.

Jersey signing up to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child would be a step forward, a penal charity says.

Dissident members of South Africa's governing ANC meet to plan a new political party.

Eight Republican voters from across the US look ahead to the convention and reflect on the state of the party and their candidate John McCain.

Eight Republican voters look back at the convention and forward to Novembers' general election.

A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 US Presidential election and says she will support Barack Obama.

An illustrator of Lego Bionicle comics and another artist are the latest to sign up for a convention.

A report composed by students from Our Lady's Convent High School, London as part of BBC News School Report. the project encourages students to make the news in their schools and publish it on a school website.