Elections

Tokyo, Istanbul and Madrid fight it out, but bids by all three contenders are hampered by domestic problems.

Labour's ex-elections coordinator warns that plans to reform union links could threaten chances of election victory.

As world markets wobble over worries the stimulus drip will be turned off, IBTimes UK's Michael Klimes asks if the fear is overblown.

Latest unemployment figures are problem for French President Hollande

Leading indicators suggest that a economic recovery is underway in the eurozone.

Labour heavy hitter gives speech on the plights of the low paid as she marks 2015 elections battle lines.

Contrast between Tunisian Revolution and what has happened in Egypt, Lybia and Syria could not be more stark.

Eight months away from the next elections, Chuck Parnell explores how South Africans are in desperate need of inspirational leadership.

Eurozone's unemployment rate remains at 12.1%, though state-by-state disparities exist.

Inflation at 1.6% for August as jobless levels increased to 2.95 million.

WPP chief Martin Sorrell criticises rivals' Omnicom-Publicis merger over "clunky" structure and organisation.

Leader of controversial Dutch Party for Freedom keen on far-right alliance with counterparts.

Prime minister to be advised on Tory campaign by Sun politics editor Graeme Wilson.

Using election poster as toilet paper breaches two laws under Mugabe's rule.

Republican Bob Woodson says black people at back of the bus behind gays, immigrants, women and environmentalists.

Official data confirmed Germany's 0.7% GDP growth in second quarter as domestic demand lifts.

Nationalist Israeli former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman hits back at Turkish PM for conspiracy remarks.

Soaring price of onions in India leads thieves to drive off with lorryload of vegetable staple.

Former president on conspiracy plot charges over death of populist PM killed in 2007 in Rawalpindi.

Merkel visit scrapped as armed 'stalker' holds police at bay for nine hours

Afghan Taliban backs Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, claiming interim government is a secular puppet of the United States.

Nina Siahkali Moradi, a 27-year-old aspiring electoral candidate in Iran, has been denied the position despite winning enough votes.

Electoral tampering by Zanu PF paints even bleaker outlook for troubled Zimbabe.

Australia PM Kevin Rudd accuses Scott of setting poor example in new sexism shame for opposition leader.

France follows in Germany's footsteps and beats analysts' expectations by growing 0.5%

Gift Chimanikire admits to seeing 'memorandum of understanding' between two nations.

Murdoch-dominated Australian press is uniformly hostile in its welcome for the campaigning UK MP.

It's finally happened. The Cult of David Miliband is finally on its way out along with the man himself. His goodbye letter in the New Statesman has been greeted with nice dose of scepticism and criticism whereas three years ago the reaction would have been adulation and astonishment at his great insight.

Companies with 5bn rupee market capital will have to earmark 2% of their annual profit for corporate social responsibility.

Conservative candidate jailed for 16 years for selling guns to London drug gangs.