Anissa Haddadi

A man who attempted to hold up a bank that closed 17 years ago was jailed for seven years in a case which the tabloid Bild called "Germany's dumbest bank robber".

Dec 02, 2011

With the US hit by the global economic crisis and the Eurozone still fighting to save the common currency, Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank Governor has decided to turn to the East and considers using the Chinese Yuan as the country's main currency.

Dec 02, 2011

The Bush family is continuing its health awareness African trip despite Amnesty's international calls for the former President's arrest over human rights violations.

Dec 02, 2011

A South African human rights organization has announced its intention to file a law suit against Qatar and its broadcaster Al-Jazeera after a journalist was deported from the Gulf state because he was HIV positive.

Dec 02, 2011

Muammar Gaddafi's daughter Aisha has this week reiterated calls for the overthrow of the Libyan transitional government. Is she positioning herself to be the leader of a Libyan counter revolution?

Dec 02, 2011

Aung San Suu Kyi, has insisted that Burma's advances towards democracy are real and that trusting the government's promises is a risk worthwhile taking, ahead of Chatham House Prize win on Thursday.

Dec 01, 2011

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says he has separated his wife of 12 days, citing a "greater and thicker plot" by state agents and the media which deeply damaged their relationship.

Dec 01, 2011

Aisha Gaddafi's Call for the overthrow of the National Transitional Council (NTC) in Libya has angered Algeria, it emerged Thursday.

Dec 01, 2011

Israel, despite being the 100th smallest country in the world has, outside of the U.S., the highest number of high-tech start-ups, estimated to be 4,000.

Dec 01, 2011

A new book giving Dominique Strauss-Kahn's version of the Diallo scandal says the maid who accused him of sexual assault actually propositioned him.

Dec 01, 2011

The west should not fear Islamists parties emerging from the Arab Spring but embrace them, Qatar's Prime Minister said Thursday.

Dec 01, 2011

Students at a Tunisian university demanded the right to wear the burka, a full body cloak, and establish a prayer room on campus.

Dec 01, 2011

Seven people accused of belonging to a powerful rebel group in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region have been sentenced to death by a Sudanese court, state media said.

Nov 30, 2011

A 32-year old man has been sentenced to one month imprisonment by an Abuja senior magistrates' court for wearing shoes into a mosque in Nigeria.

Nov 30, 2011

An alliance between Syrian opposition movements has been mooted following a secret meeting.

Nov 30, 2011

An influx of arms from Nigeria is posing a threat to Nigeria.

Nov 30, 2011

Laurent Gbagbo, Ivory Coast, former president has been charged with murder, rape, persecution and inhuman acts by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Nov 30, 2011

The daughter of Muammar Gaddafi, ousted and killed during the Libyan civil war, has called on the Libyan people to rise up against the National Transitional Council to defend her father's orders.

Nov 30, 2011

A new government may be on the cards for Egypt following the first round of parliamentary elections.

Nov 30, 2011

Egypt's blogger Abd El Fattah has been charged with 12 counts including on charges of premeditated murder and act of terrorism it was reported Tuesday.

Nov 29, 2011

Foreign troops are heading to Syria to support both the rebels and the embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, prompting fears that the conflict is set to enter a yet more lethal phase.

Nov 29, 2011

Officials at Egypt's Suez Port have refused to sign and accept a shipment of seven and a half tons of tear gas for fear it would be used against protesters, Egyptian media reported on Monday.

Nov 29, 2011

As the second day of Egypt's landmark parliamentary elections takes place, the trial regarding virginity checks allegedly conducted by the security forces on Samira Ibrahim while in detention in was due to start today but has been delayed to December, prompting more outrage from women protesters in Egypt.

Nov 29, 2011

Nigeria's Senate voted Tuesday to criminalise gay marriage, instituting prison terms of more than ten years in cases of violations, prompting fears that discrimination towards gay people is growing despite international calls for more rights.

Nov 29, 2011

Polls have opened for a second day of voting in Egypt's parliamentary elections, the first since former leader Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February 2011.

Nov 29, 2011

Syrian officials have rejected the new sanctions imposed on the country by the Arab League and continued to accuse foreign countries of a conspiracy.

Nov 28, 2011

Lebanon's Prime Minister has invited Pope Benedict XVI to visit his country.

Nov 28, 2011

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering releasing tens of millions of dollars in Palestinian tax funds, it has been reported.

Nov 28, 2011

Zimbabwean police believe there is a syndicate of women who are raping men to use their semen in rituals that claim to make people wealthy.

Nov 28, 2011