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Demonstrations calling for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to step down are still taking place in Tahrir Square, despite the announcement of the formation of a new salvation government to be led by former Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri.

Violence has marred Black Friday in the United States as buyers fought each other for the top deals across the country. Thieves were also rife robbing people who are carrying large amounts of cash to make their early seasonal purchases.

As news emerges that EDL members will seek political office, IBTimes UK looks at where that may be.

Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered on Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand the army immediately hands over power to a civilian administration.

When a well-known BBC sports television presenter and spokesperson for the Green party appears on a chat show, it is fair to say you would not expect too much controversy to come from the interview. You wouldn't for example expect him to claim he was the Son of God.

An Arab League deadline for Syria to allow an observer mission into the country has passed, with Damascus failing to provide an official response.

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.

World's top 10 Billionaires, according to the Forbes magazine.

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.