A retiring chief constable says police could miss crime such as anti-social behaviour because of the impact of UK government cuts.

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Cuts ‘threaten crime response’

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was admitted Sunday to a military hospital in Sanaa, the second time that he's been to a hospital this month, a government official said.

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Ex-Yemeni President Saleh hospitalized

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s telecommunications regulators shut down Twitter for about eight hours Sunday because the social networking site would not remove content the government found objectionable to Muslims, but the nation’s prime minister stepped in to reverse the ban, officials said. Read full article > >

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Pakistan blocks, then restores, Twitter access

A small number of British soldiers could remain in Afghanistan after forces withdraw in 2014, a senior UK government official says.

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UK force ‘to stay in Afghanistan’

Somali government soldiers are among five people killed in two bomb attacks in the capital Mogadishu blamed on al-Shabab Islamist fighters.

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Bombs kill soldiers in Mogadishu

Sri Lanka marks three years since the end of its civil war with a military parade, as the government is reportedly set to free Sarath Fonseka from prison – the man who led the army during the war

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Sri Lanka marks war anniversary

The Spanish government has announced that the level of bad loans held by the country’s banks is at an 18-year high.

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VIDEO: Tension over Spanish bank debts

The government of Quebec unveils an emergency bill in an effort to quell the most sustained student protests in Canadian history.

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Quebec in ‘emergency’ protest law

France's new Socialist government is already causing ripples throughout a Europe struggling to balance government budgets without making ordinary people's lives miserable, but it has created a completely different problem in the Middle East.

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Arabs giggle over French PM’s name

Spain's government called for calm Friday, a day after rating agency Moody's downgraded 16 Spanish banks in the latest sign of distress in Europe.

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Spain seeks financial calm

On a gorgeous spring Thursday, kids on class trips were all over the Capitol grounds, many in matching T-shirts, posing for pictures on the granite steps. They were having a great time learning history and about how government works. If they had crossed Independence Avenue and squeezed into a Cannon House Office Building hearing room, they also would have witnessed how government is not supposed to work. Read full article > >

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Federal Diary: House subcommittee looks into Homeland Security corruption

France’s new government holds its first cabinet meeting, announcing a 30% pay cut for President Hollande and his ministers.

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French government takes pay cut

A government video has asked people to “re-mode” during the London Olympics. But what does this word actually mean?

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What does ‘re-moding’ actually mean?

The government is “determined” to introduce a register of lobbyists before 2015, constitutional reform minister Mark Harper tells a Commons committee.

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Lobbying ‘to be reformed by 2015′

The Brazilian government reaches a deal with Rio de Janeiro hotel owners to cut spiralling room prices ahead of a major UN summit in the city.

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Rio hotels agree summit price cut