UC students protest 32 percent fee hike by occupying campus buildings in Berkeley, Santa Cruz. Dozens of demonstrators who barricaded themselves inside a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts were removed late Friday, bringing the daylong occupation to an end, university officials said.

New Greenpeace chief brings experience fighting poverty, racism to environmental campaign. An anti-apartheid campaigner who on Monday became the head of the environmental group Greenpeace says he will use his activism know-how to spur governments into reversing climate change, stressing that unless dramatic steps are taken "all the world is going to sink."

FRANKFURT (Reuters Life!) - Dozens of demonstrators blaming bankers for tipping the world into financial crisis jeered financiers arriving for the annual Euro Finance Week that started on Monday in Germany's financial capital.

When student Hemnecher Amen joined a protest outside the White House recently, it was the latest visible opposition here to US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hardly anyone took notice.

When student Hemnecher Amen joined a protest outside the White House recently, it was the latest visible opposition here to US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hardly anyone took notice.

Thai police said Monday that a grenade was responsible for a blast at a rally by opponents of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, as the number of injured rose to 12.

Thai police said Monday that a grenade was responsible for a blast at a rally by opponents of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, as the number of injured rose to 12.

The west African regional grouping ECOWAS on Monday expressed confidence in Burkina Faso's mediation of the crisis in Guinea triggered by a massacre at an opposition rally there in September.

Advocacy group: Founder of Tibetan Web site sentenced to 15 years by Chinese court. The founder of a Tibetan literary Web site was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets, an overseas monitoring group said Tuesday.

New Greenpeace chief brings experience fighting poverty, racism to environmental campaign. An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming.

A French academic arrested after Iran's disputed election appeared before the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on Tuesday and was then allowed to return to the country's embassy, French officials said.

French academic Clotilde Reiss on Tuesday appeared before Tehran's Revolutionary Court and was then allowed to return to her country's embassy, the French foreign ministry said.

French academic Clotilde Reiss on Tuesday appeared before Tehran's Revolutionary Court and was then allowed to return to her country's embassy, the French foreign ministry said.

French academic Clotilde Reiss on Tuesday appeared before Tehran's Revolutionary Court and was then allowed to return to her country's embassy, the French foreign ministry said.

Advocacy group: Founder of Tibetan Web site sentenced to 15 years by Chinese court. The founder of a Tibetan literary Web site was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets, an overseas monitoring group said Tuesday.

Several hundred employees of Lloyds Banking Group protested in Madrid Tuesday against proposed cutbacks in Spain as part of the bank's plans to slash 5,000 jobs worldwide.

NJ teen sues school, claiming administrators quashed a silent protest of abortion she planned. A New Jersey high school student claims in a federal lawsuit that school administrators violated her First Amendment free-speech and religious-freedom rights when they said she couldn't participate in a day of silent protest against abortion.

Greek police fired tear gas and detained more than 200 people as clashes broke out with stone-throwing protesters at a march to honour a 1973 anti-junta student revolt in Athens on Tuesday.

Czechs celebrate 20th anniversary of Velvet Revolution sweeping away communist regime. Thousands marched through the Czech capital Tuesday in commemoration of a student protest 20 years ago that grew into the human tidal wave sweeping away the communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia.

A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death."