The leadership election for the Liberal Democrats, the UK's third party, is looking increasingly likely to be between two candidates. Environment spokesman Chris Huhne, who launched his leadership bid on Wednesday 17 October, has been joined in the race today by his frontbench colleague Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman. All other likely contenders have ruled themselves out.

Sino-US trade relations are increasingly troubled by America’s concerns over China’s trade practices that result in the mounting imbalance in bilateral trade and US suffering huge trade deficits.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has been in office for almost four years following the heady days of the Rose Revolution. But it appears Georgians are disillusioned with his tenure. In this background report from Washington, VOA Senior Correspondent André de Nesnera looks at the state of Georgian politics.

Adding fluoride chemicals into our food and water supply has never been proven safe or effective. Studies show it's harmful to health

Federal Parliament has erupted with accusations of smear politics and dirty tactics, highlighting what may be in store for the election campaign.

The murky politics of Vladimir Putin's Kremlin became even more puzzling as the Russian president named an obscure official, Viktor Zubkov, as prime minister.

Ex-Japan PM Junichiro Koizumi may come out of retirement to possibly lead new Japanese cabinet.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation on Wednesday, following an upper house election defeat and controversy over his country's support for Afghanistan operations.

Two former prime ministers of Pakistan say they will return from their self-imposed exiles. During the 1990s Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif engaged in a bitter political rivalry.

A foreigner suspected to be a Dutch man and three Nigerians were recently killed at different locations in the violent oil rich Rivers state of Nigeria.

Despite U.S. public opinion surveys showing broad dissatisfaction with President Bush and the Republican Party in general, the man who has served as Mr. Bush's top political operative is upbeat on his party's prospects in next year's elections. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington, where Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who is resigning at the end of the month, appeared on U.S. television.

It appears to be the fact that the turki of Russia: tatars, bashkirs, kazakhs and the number of the other nations who belong to the Turki nation have decided to get merged all together pursuing the only goal: get themselves separeted from Russia, join all the turki nations of the world.