In early 2003, all of the services and benefit functions of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, known as the INS, became part of the US Department of Homeland Security.

If you are sick and tired of foolish lawsuits, the gun lobby, Pentagon, and the National Rifle Association, have finally demonstrated how to stop them in their tracks. You need friends in high places, a highly skilled lobby, and a letter from the Pentagon will be a big help too!

In the modern world there are few things governments protect more fiercely than the security of their borders. Australia is no different. As such, there seem to be a countless number of different visas, each appropriate to only a very specific set of reasons for visiting Australia. It is all too easy to become lost in the paperwork and jargon.

Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown has hit the ground running, and in his first few weeks has had to deal with crises in agriculture, floods, Iraq and Afghanistan. While opinion polls show his Labour Party with a ten per cent lead, the tax havens of Andorra and Monaco have seen an increase in enquiries from UK residents.

Spanish politics is seeing British arrivals get more involved, with some election results for local and national government hinging on the British vote.

Just 24 hours after winning the Presidency of France, Nicolas Sarkozy headed for a holiday in Malta.