decolonizations


A chronology of key events

Key facts, figures and dates

A chronology of key events

Key facts, figures and dates

Slavery and the British empire is being made a compulsory part of the secondary school curriculum in England.

Puerto Rico Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila calls on the UN to back his people's right to self-determination.

A chronology of key events

The South African press condemns the recent anti-immigrant violence which has left at least 13 dead.

Predictions are a difficult business, and those experts who made theirs in 1960 little realised the tumultuous decade that was to follow.

Key facts about the pan-African organisation

All patients undergoing surgery at a Norfolk hospital are to be screened for the MRSA superbug.

Economist Kaushik Basu travels to India's north-east to find it has been left out of the economic boom.

Voters on the tiny Pacific island group of Tokelau reject a plan to break away from New Zealand.

In an interview for the BBC, Bolivia's President Evo Morales defends his record after over 18 months in office.

Facts and figures on France's geography, people, economy and society.

President Chirac felt at home in Africa where France has had a paternalistic presence since colonial times but what will his successor do?

All patients coming in to hospitals for operations should be tested for the MRSA superbug, leading experts say.

Jack Straw says a "British story" about the fight for freedom and democracy is needed to foster citizenship.

A hospital neo-natal unit in Norwich contaminated with PVL bacteria has reopened the hospitals says.

Documents released to the National Archives reveal how the 1976 government debated whether the UK genuinely owned the Koh-i-Noor diamond.

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