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The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been left "blind" in the Middle East after the uncovering of at least a dozen U.S. agents in Lebanon and Iran.

The three defendant on trial in Cambodia before the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia, a UN-backed Tribunal , Nuon Chea, 85, Kieu Samphan,78, and Ieng Sary, 86, deny charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for their alleged roles in the deaths of up to 2.2 million people the Khmer Rouge four-year-rule from 1975 to 1979.

Despite three days of clashes between protesters and the security forces, which left at least 33 dead, the Egyptian authorities have announced that the parliamentary elections expected to take place in a week's time will proceed as scheduled.

Lone banker spent £37,000 on dancers, champagne and food at London's Spearmint Rhino lap dancing club - £10,000 more than an average British worker earns in a year.

A 73-year-old grandmother from Kent has had numerous midnight dealings with a spirit who she says is “groping” her in her sleep.

Muammar Gaddafi's eldest son and heir, Saif al Islam, was a philander who used to beat his ex-wife, it has emerged in an Ukrainian newspaper.

The recent death of 15 eunuchs, or "hijras", in a fire in New Delhi has cast a spotlight on this little-known and often marginalised community.

India's community of eunuchs, transvestites and transsexuals mourned Monday for 15 of their numbers killed in a deadly blaze at a ceremony in New Delhi.

Amnesty International has slammed Egypt's ruling military council as pro-democracy activists in Egypt call for a mass rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square to overthrow the current government.

Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, the Egyptian blogger, who shocked the Arab world with her nude pictures posted on Twitter, has broken cover to issue a defiant rebuttal on Facebook to accusations of insulting Islam, saying she does not "acknowledge any discriminatory law".

Stand-first: Mario Monti has a tough task at hand – to shore up the finances of Italy which are a total shambles.

The IBTimes looks at the images from yesterday's Spanish election which saw the Popular Party win power from the PSOE

A disgraced former archbishop of Boston who resigned in 2002 following a scandal involving the sexual abuse of children by priests has retired from his job as head of a major Roman basilica.

Egyptian nude blogger, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy published a series of naked pictures of herself on her blog and on her Twitter page to protest against Islamic extremism.

Three aides to ex-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in cvourt charged with recruiting 17-year-old Moroccan model Karim El Mahroug, better known as "Ruby the Heart Stealer." and several other women to work as prostitutes.

Dubbed by Vogue magazine earlier this year as a "rose in the desert", Asma al Assad has remained an elusive and enigmatic figure amidst her husband's continuing crackdown on protesters. Here the IBTimes profiles Syria's notorious first lady.

Activists in Jerusalem are campaigning against gender segregation and the censorship of women in the public sphere, as enforced by ultra-orthodox Haredi Jews.

The capture of Muammar Gaddafi's playboy son Saif al-Islam, while he was trying to flee to Niger through Libya's southern desert, is just the latest dramatic development in a family saga that ruled the country for four decades.

Gay activists have spoken out against a Russian bill to outlaw "propaganda of homosexuality" to minors.

Russian prime minister, Vladamir Putin, was greeted with whistles and boos on live television as he congratulated Russian heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko after beating American Jeff Monson in a mixed martial arts bout.

Having fought an election campaign for six months on a bitter message of austerity, the new Spanish Prime Minister and leader of the Popular Party, Mariano Rajoy, now faces the difficult part.

Last week,China's National Bureau of Statistics released the welcome news that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) year-on-year rate of inflation to October 2011 had fallen to 5.5 per cent, markedly down from September's 6.1 per cent. The CPI had peaked at 6.5 per cent in July 2011.

For many, the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, will confirm the end of an era. For Safia, 22, however, the woman who claims the dictator raped her for five years, the shadow of the colonel will haunt her forever.

A transgender fake doctor, Oneal Ron Morris, has been arrested in Miami on a charge of injecting a woman’s behind with a cocktail of cement, tyre sealant and super glue.

In an interview with CNN International, Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy explained the reasons behind her bold move to post nude pictures of herself on Twitter.

While the Syrian National Council has released a document setting out plans for a transitional phase if the Assad regime falls, the armed opposition, the Free Syria Army, is gaining popularity.

In what seems eerily like a replay of February's revolution, protesters in Egypt have set up camp in Tahrir square to call for regime change. The images and videos emerging from the demonstration show violence has once again gripped the country.

Dozens of Israeli women have posed naked in support of Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, the Egyptian blogger who sparked fury in the Arab world last week when she published a series of nude pictures of herself on Twitter under her real name in a protest against Islamism.

A new U.S. reality TV show claims to give a unique glimpse of the American Muslim community, exploding stereotypes along the way.