Four young men in Brazil have been given maximum jail sentences after they dragged a six-year-old boy to his death behind a car they had stolen.

Sixty-three years after the birth of the United Nations, a push for reform of the Security Council - whose five permanent members still wield the most power - is once again under way. A meeting on this issue was held on Thursday at UN headquarters in...

To get to the Yearning for Zion compound, you have to turn off the main road in Eldorado. You drive past fields of cactus and cattle and out - it feels - into the middle of nowhere. Church built at the FLDS’s compound in Texas (2005) The FLDS...

A collection of paintings worth more than £500,000 is to go on show 10 years after an attempt to steal them. The works by 19th Century artist David Roberts were left to The Art Fund charity in 1998 by owner Helen Guiterman but never materialised. In...

The Simpsons has been dropped from morning TV in Venezuela after being deemed unsuitable for children - and has been replaced by Baywatch. The popular US cartoon about the yellow dysfunctional family was branded “inappropriate” and pulled...

The tragic death of five-year-old Isabella de Oliveira Nardoni is one such case. For days the crime has been grabbing headlines in all the main Brazilian papers, leading the front pages of the weekly news magazines, and taking up hours of television...

From the breed of tattoos comes yet another eye-catcher that is bound to capture your imagination. The tattoo represents a series of number in a pattern. Looking at it takes me back to the World War days when secret messages were of utmost importance...

Diamonds are a woman’s best friend but sometimes crystals can woe better. The Spring / Summer Collection 2008 by Swarovski is for the modern women who lives in the ultra modern cities that are always buzzing with activity. The collection is inspired...

As Italians prepare to vote in a general election, after Romano Prodi’s fragile centre-left coalition came tumbling down just 20 months into office, the main issue for voters in the south of the country is the difficulty of making ends meet.

The calmness of the night can be brought about with just the right kind of light in your room; a cool pleasant ray of light can brighten you senses and make you relax. Cloud City gives you this relaxation whenever it is required with mild light flowing...