Swiss voters to decide on minaret ban

8 July 08 - While the Australian government insists that important progress was made in the first year of its controversial "emergency response" in the Northern Territory — ostensibly to protect indigenous children from abuse — activists are calling for affected communities to be consulted. Read

7 July 08 - On July 3, the appeals chamber of the Hague tribunal acquitted former Bosnian commander Naser Oric of crimes committed against Serbs in the Srebrenica area during the 1992-95 conflict. It raised mixed reaction in Bosnia and Serbia Read

A newly-Maoist Nepal is still finding its bearings, says Swiss development consultant Thania Paffenholz, who has just returned from the fledgling republic.