LONDON - Human rights are increasingly under threat in China, according to a British firm which analyses dangers for business worldwide, while also describing risks in Russia, Nigeria and India as extreme. While Afghanistan and Somalia are the wors
CAIRO - U.S.-allied Arab governments in the Middle East are flouting human rights through violations including torture, extra-judicial killings and repressive laws, an Egyptian human rights group said Tuesday. In a report chronicling the human right
LONDON - ESPN signed a four-year deal Tuesday to broadcast live FA Cupmatches in Britain to fill the void left by collapsed network Setanta.The contract to show 25 matches each season starting in 2010-11 is wortharound $95 million dollars over four
The Football Association has agreed a four-year £35m television deal with ESPN to show FA Cup ties from 2010.The deal fills the void created by the demise of Setanta, which went into administration in June. ESPN will broadcast up to 25 FA Cup
LONDON, Dec 8 - Britain's dominant pay-TV firmBSkyB has won the right to show the majority of EnglishPremier League soccer games in Ireland from next season untilthe 2012/2013 season.'BSkyB has been awarded live rights to 115 Barclays PremierLeague
GENEVA - North Korea made a rare appearance before a U.N. human rights organization on Monday, facing accusations of widespread abuses such as forced labor, public executions and torture. The communist state, which also was accused of allowing its p
LONDON - A legal rights group said Monday the British government misled parliament about the cases of two terrorism suspects who were subjected to extraordinary rendition. Clive Stafford Smith, director of London-based Reprieve, said the government
KABUL - A leading rights group Monday accused the Afghan government of failing to protect women from endemic violence such as rape and murder and from discrimination, warning that their plight risks getting worse. The US-based Human Rights Watch ur
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