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The musician with North African origins refuses to be boxed into a certain music style, so we’ll mark him down as a ‘reggae-soul-hip-hop’ kind. We meet up in Prague where the thirtysomething’s latest album 'International Call' was released in late July

'Four more years', he tweeted at around 5am Paris time, although electorally speaking, the president had the cat in the bag not too far on on election night. With at least 303 votes out of 538 (the threshold was 270, and Mitt Romney won 206), he has been given a second change to change his United States - but will the victorious democrats and losing republicans reach a consensus on the key issue - reducing the public debt?

The battle’s on, it's republicans (Mitt Romney) versus democrats (the incumbent Barack Obama) for the US presidential elections on 6 November – but you know other people are also vying to be president too, right?

Belarus is a small country in which all that awaits its political dissidents is prison. 'Public enemy number one' Alexander Lukashenko has been at the head of the state since 1994. If the so-called parliamentary elections in late September showed one thing, it was that there is nothing democratic about Belarus. However, political activists can carry on with their fight for freedom thanks to the support of a neighbouring country

A mixture of ethnic Turks, Kurds, Circassians, Bosnians, Georgians, Gypsies, Arabs and a Zaza minority make up Turkey’s population, half of whom are currently under thirty. Despite having started their journey towards becoming part of the EU more than five decades ago, maybe it's toward Brazil, Russia, India and China they want to go

Immigration is a key but contradictory topic in the run-up to the US presidential elections on 6 November. Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are toeing a careful line, lauding the USA’s origins as a land of immigration whilst promising to secure US borders. Confused? Let’s see what our fairy godmother would say about a few well-known immigrants

On 1 November British prime minister David Cameron announced that he plans to obey the will of his parliament at the EU budget summit at the end of November and use his power of veto if the result is not in the interests of the UK. While some commentators stress that the British are weakening their influence in Europe with their hard line, others maintain that the critical stance is good for the EU

It can only mean one thing when Hollywood veteran Clint Eastwood vents his spleen at an empty chair in front of an audience of thousands, when Sesame Street’s Big Bird puts his foot down and refuses to be used as a political football, and when first-time voting for Obama is likened to losing your virginity. Showtime! It’s the US elections and anything goes in the race for the White House on 6 November

For a child in Scotland, 31 October is guising time. Like their American cousins, Scots children dress up as all kinds of things that go bump in the night so as to traipse around neighbouring houses. Good little Presbyterian children that we are, we must first earn our treats by singing a song, telling a joke or reciting a poem. A rundown of the top five European poems for guising

The Slovenian jewish association, based in the capital Ljubljana, only counts 150 members in a country of 2 million. Spokesman Klemen Jelinčič Boeta, one of the religious community’s most renowned figures, believes that Slovenia will lose its jewish identity one day soon

An exploration firm has struck black gold off the Irish coast worth billions. Will it be enough to drag Ireland out of the economic abyss?