Cambridge Politics News

An angry man threw a boot at former Australian prime minister John Howard during a debate at Britain's Cambridge University, the quick-thinking student who caught the shoe said on Thursday. Andrew Chapman, a senior officer at the Cambridge Union Society...

Former caretaker prime minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi breathed his last at the St Marry Hospital in London on Friday after a protracted illness...He will be laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Naushero Feroze. Born on August 14, 1931,...

Updated November 18, 2009 Court Filing Suggests Philadelphia Top Cop Lied About D.C. In a sworn affidavit filed in D.C. federal court, a veteran city detective claims he was standing a few feet away from former Police Chief Charles Ramsey...

A detainee from Afghanistan with guards at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba The treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib by the US authorities has been “hugely detrimental” to the fight against terrorism, “creating long-lasting...

Now the renaming of another august institution has provoked a wave of resentment from its supporters. Academics at the University of Cambridge are furious that officials are offering to alter the library’s title in exchange for cash. “At this rate,...

Australian National University (ANU) vice-chancellor Ian Chubb says improving the institution for its own sake is more rewarding than winning a favourable world ranking. ANU on Thursday dropped one place to number 17 in an authoritative annual list of the...