The prospect of war over Iran's nuclear plans seemed to recede in mid-July 2008 after a marked change in United States attitudes to the country. But what is really going on?

Amid all the talk of division, the bishops gathered at Lambeth were able to express deep unity in joining a central London march against global poverty.

'Bartholomew's Notes on Religion' is undoubtedly one of the top-rank online resources on religious issues, especially those off the mainstream radar.

As the G8 faces accusations of reneging on promises, a leading analyst and campaigner says the precedent of the United States's great depression and Japan's post-bubble collapse should haunt today's summiteers.

The Serious Fraud Office appeal against a judicial review judgment that said the BAE-Saudi corruption inquiry was stopped by the government unlawfully has been set for next week.

The news that doyen BBC correspondent Charles Wheeler has died is a sad day for journalism.

We hear a lot about the 'religious right' in the USA. But what about religious opinion of the centre and left?

The brutal pre-election repression of Robert Mugabe's regime may at last have brought the world to a tipping-point of disgust.

The tragic situation in Zimbabwe was being foretold as long as fifty years ago by the writer Frantz Fanon, whose theories about the end of colonialism have proved remarkably prophetic.

Many, including the Church of England, have argued that the government's 42 days detention without charge strategy is wrong - but what's the alternative?