As Russia’s propaganda machine jolts back to life, flooding the Western world with curated hoo-hah, a popular notion in Russia is that these days everything is PR - the same cynical idea can be described as a symptom of the post-Great Recession West.

Three men carrying Australian passports were arrested at a Bolivian international airport last week waiting to board a flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil, accused of carrying explosives.

At least 10 protesters and a policeman have been killed in unrest in Egypt as the country marks the fourth anniversary of its 2011 uprising, officials say.

It is not just the clinical detail of the brutality of American agents that makes the US Senate report on the CIA's torture shocking, it is how chaotic and in the end, pointless, the entire program proved to be.

Joey Rovero was just five months from graduation. It was December of 2009 and the healthy, handsome, athletic Arizona State University senior had finished his second-to-last semester. It was time to blow off some steam.