The crowds are dwindling at the protest rallies, the energy seems to be draining away. There are several problems for Russia's opposition movement.

Fed up with waiting for the government to clean up local farms, volunteers are doing their own test to determine the levels of radiation in soil.

It is the only organisation with the power to set international law, yet it is also above the very laws it claims to represent.

Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan has a strange encounter with a rather Orwellian Chinese police officer, as she attempts to interview a rights attorney about the passage of a new law.

The parallel between the Germany chancellor and Margaret Thatcher is wrong-headed for three reasons.