Palash Ghosh

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will not have to spend a pound in their litigation against the French magazine, Closer, which published topless photos of Kate Middleton, sparking outrage in the UK and elsewhere.

Sep 17, 2012

Attorneys from Britain?s Royal Family have initiated legal action against the French magazine that printed topless photos of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge.

Sep 17, 2012

Kate Middleton is not just anyone. She is the wife of the future King of England – and her privacy has been violated in one of the worst ways imaginable. Having her topless photos published in a magazine is a grave breach of decency.

Sep 14, 2012

The First Lady of France, Valerie Trierweiler, won damages against a French magazine that published photos of her wearing a bikini on a beach. Perhaps Kate Middleton -- who has suffered the indignity of having topless photos of herself printed in France -- could take some inspiration from this.

Sep 14, 2012

Laurence Pieau, the managing editor of French magazine, Closer, said he is surprised by the magnitude of the uproar over his decision to print topless photos of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge. He also accused British tabloids of hypocrisy over the affair.

Sep 14, 2012

Anger over the film 'Innocence of Muslims' has reached Sudan, where 5,000 protesters attacked the German embassy in Khartoum.

Sep 14, 2012

The British Royal Family is outraged by a French magazine called Closer's decision to publish topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton. Kate and her husband, The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, may take legal action, citing a breach of privacy laws.

Sep 14, 2012

Arrests have been made in connection with the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which left four people, including US Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.

Sep 13, 2012

The vessel is believed to be the last surviving Messerschmitt-323 Gigant craft, the largest land-based transport aircraft from the war.

Sep 13, 2012

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the subject of the controversial anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims,” which has sparked riots and violence across the Middle East, including the murder of the U.S. envoy to Libya.

Sep 13, 2012

Zimbabwe's President, Robert Mugabe, has chastised the men of Jamaica, suggesting they are all drunkards and dope addicts.

Sep 13, 2012

Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, delivered the following speech at a hospital in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, her first ever speech on foreign soil.

Sep 13, 2012

Britain’s aging population is placing a great burden on health care services.

Sep 13, 2012

The island, officially French but in fact very much its own place, is among the most beautiful in the Mediterranean, but it still suffers from endemic violence by nationalists and mobsters. What's wrong with Corsica, then?

Sep 13, 2012

The U.S. and its allies have long sought to pressure Russia and China into backing such a statement against Iran, amidst fears that Israel would unilaterally attack Iran in a pre-emptive measure in lieu of finding a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

Sep 12, 2012

Communist Party officials have been reticent to comment on Xi’s condition.

Sep 12, 2012

orth and South Korea technically remain at war since 1953, when their civil war ended in a truce instead of a peace treaty.

Sep 12, 2012

The president of the United States, Barack Obama, and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, have both condemned that rocket attack in Benghazi, Libya which killed U.S. diplomat Chris Stevens and three other people.

Sep 12, 2012

José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, delivered the following State of the Union 2012 speech during a session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on September 12, 2012

Sep 12, 2012

Nearly three-hundred people have died in a fire that swept through a garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan, making the inferno one of worst industrial accidents in the country’s history.

Sep 12, 2012

Indonesia is the fifth-largest cigarette-producing market in the world. The government generates 6 percent of its revenue from taxes on tobacco.

Sep 12, 2012

Thatcher earned the unending enmity of British trade unions and the far left during the 1980s when her government implemented harsh laws against strikes and tried to drastically reduce the power of unions.

Sep 11, 2012

Catalan represents 15 percent of Spain’s population, but produces about one-fifth of the country’s GDP.

Sep 11, 2012

India currently has 20 operational nuclear power reactors in India in six states. Seven more plants are under construction and at least 36 more projects are on the drawing board.

Sep 11, 2012

The homeless problem in Denmark is unlikely to ease anytime soon. Net unemployment is now at 4.7 percent, the highest level in six years. Labor Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that the unemployment rate will continue to climb into 2013.

Sep 11, 2012

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement at the opening of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Summit in Vladivostok, Russia on Sunday.

Sep 10, 2012

Nadarkhani, 32, had been imprisoned for three years and was awaiting execution, but the apostasy charge was downgraded to evangelizing to Muslims (an offense that carries a three-year term).

Sep 10, 2012

Japan’s top financial regulator, Tadahiro Matsushita, was found dead at his home in Tokyo on Monday, with police suspecting a suicide.

Sep 10, 2012

Manaf Tlas hinted that France helped him escape Syria, but refused to provide specifics. He also warned the Syrian regime would not hesitate to use chemical weapons.

Sep 10, 2012