A U.N. human rights panel said it had received reports of massive human rights violations in Syria, including the detention and mutilation of children.
Outgoing Libyan Prime Minister Ali Tarhouni has criticized his country's newly established government.
Nando's South Africa has launched a controversial new advert featuring a host of authoritarian dictators in happier times.
Mona Eltahawy, the award winning Egyptian-American journalist arrested on Wednesday near Tahrir Square, has revealed she suffered a brutal sexual and physical assault at the hand of the state's riot-police.
With neighbours including Egypt and Libya, and after years of tensions and violent clashes with the newly separated South, Sudan finds itself in the middle of a region that is rapidly changing, but President al-Bashir dismissed speculation of an Arab Spring in the country.
Kamal al-Ganzouri, a former Prime Minister under ousted President Hosni Mubarak has been appointed by Egypt's ruling generals as head of a new interim government.
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The Russian newsreader who became an internet sensation after flipping the finger at U.S. President Barack Obama live on-air, has been fired.
The alleged spies were gathering data on Iran's security and military apparatus and also its highly sensitive nuclear programme, an official said.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has spoken out against the pro-democracy uprisings in the Arab world.
Despite the unrest in the Egyptian capital, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khalid Mashaal met in Cairo as scheduled to implement a unity agreement on Thursday.
The newly appointed Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, said he will balance the books by 2013.
Militias groups that have emerged during the Libyan conflict are illegally detaining thousands of people, including women and children, who they say are "enemies of the state", according to a U.N. report.
An Indian television channel has been asked to change the name of a new soap opera with the word Hitler in the title after triggering a controversy in the United States.
Ales Bialiatski, who is the founder of Viasna, has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison and confiscation of property for alleged tax evasion.
The legislative elections set to take place in Morocco on Friday, have been marred by calls for a boycott of the vote.
Mexican authorities have found 16 burned bodies in two pickup trucks in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state and home of the country's most feared drug lord, Jaquin "Shorty" Guzman.
The Metropolitan Police under fire after a man carrying a toy gun in his briefcase was tasered nine times.
Rafiq Tagi, a writer and journalist from Azerbaijan, critical of the ex-soviet state's repressive regime and of neighbouring Iran has died in hospital after being stabbed in a brutal attack.
An influential Iranian parliamentary said Tehran had arrested 12 US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) informants, just hours after it was reported that Hezbollah had also uncovered part of a US spy ring in Lebanon.
Zimbabwe's President Rober Mugabe is stepping-up his anti-western rhetoric ahead of the elections, calling the Prime Minister "Satanic" for threatening to withhold aid from countries that do not respect gay rights.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has apologised for the "Dersim massacre" in which thousands of Kurds were killed at the end of 1930s.
“D’oh”, Homer Simpson’s favourite exclamation, may well have been among the first words uttered by prehistoric human beings.
A new report on the Neo-Nazi group blamed for the killing of at least 10 people between 2000 and 2006, suggest that the country's far-right National Democratic Party may have formed close links with the violent gang.
A breakaway Amish cult in Ohio headed by leader Samuel Mullet terrorised the local Amish population by forcibly cutting the hair of men and women in night-time raids.
The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has apologized for the deaths of pro-democracy activists, while questions have been raised about the likelihood of next week's elections going ahead.
Nick Clegg told the annual Scarman Lecture in Brixton that the private sector is failing in the battle ro acheive racial equality.
Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy is said to have been arrested and detained by Egyptian police.
Six people, including three children, are feared dead after a small plane exploded after it crashed into Arizona's Superstition Mountains on Wednesday night.
Faced by months of uprising against his regime, Syrian President Bashar al Assad continues to blame much of the unrest on armed groups and Islamist movements.
