The United Nations Security Council has authorised a no-fly zone resolution over Libya and "all necessary measures" - short of an invasion - to protect....
Last Modified: 28 Mar 2011 11:13 GMT
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A Tunisian court has dissolved the former ruling party of the country's deposed leader, the dismantling been one of the protesters’ main demands.....
Last Modified: 28 Mar 2011 11:12 GMT
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Mubarak stepped down as the leader of Egypt after widespread anti-government demonstrations about unemployment, poverty and corruption. Egypt....
Last Modified: 28 Mar 2011 11:11 GMT
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Barack Obama, the US president, has called on democrats and republicans to focus on a bipartisan approach to promote jobs, economic growth and innovation as he....
Last Modified: 28 Mar 2011 08:51 GMT
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WikiLeaks has released a massive trove of leaked US diplomatic cables detailing the opinions of various world leaders, repeated calls for a US attack on Iran,....
Last Modified: 28 Mar 2011 08:50 GMT
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A massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake, the biggest in 300 years in Japan, surpassing the Great Kanto quake of 1923, has hit the north-east of Japan,....
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2011 10:40 GMT
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David Cameron, UK prime minister, in a speech to a security conference in Munich has said "State multiculturalism" in Britain has failed, encouraging different....
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2011 10:23 GMT
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Iraqi demonstrators across Iraq, including Baghdad, are decrying improved government services, better pay and an end to corruption - eight years after the....
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2011 10:22 GMT
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Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, is visit to the Afghan capital, Kabul, to meet Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President, US troops and allied....
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2011 10:20 GMT
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The US has recently vetoed a UN Security Council resolution which would have condemned Israeli settlements as illegal, and called for an immediate....
Last Modified: 24 Mar 2011 08:25 GMT
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Hopes are fading of finding more survivors beneath collapsed buildings in Christchurch, New Zealand's second biggest city, after a 6.3-magnitude....
Last Modified: 21 Mar 2011 10:13 GMT
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Angela Merkel and David Cameron have called on Muammar Gaddafi to step down as the EU leaders are meeting in Brussels to address the situation....
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2011 08:48 GMT
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More than half a billion men and women are clinically obese, a report backed by the World Health organisation (WHO), says. The figures, released....
Last Modified: 09 Mar 2011 11:10 GMT
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Omer al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, has issued a republican decree accepting Southern Sudan referendum final results, which officially supports the....
Last Modified: 08 Mar 2011 08:19 GMT
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Barack Obama has insisted that the Libyan leader should step down from power and leave, saying he is keeping all options - including military, to respond....
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2011 11:07 GMT
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A suicide bomber has killed at least 30 soldiers and injured 18 others inside an army recruitment centre in northwest Pakistan in the town of Mardan. It....
Last Modified: 03 Mar 2011 09:38 GMT
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Hundreds of people supporting Saad Hariri, Lebanon's caretaker, held violent demonstrations, taking part in a "day of rage" over the possible election of Najib....
Last Modified: 28 Feb 2011 11:08 GMT
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About 165 Israeli professors have signed a petition calling for a boycott of a contentious college in the occupied West Bank, noting that....
Last Modified: 22 Feb 2011 08:58 GMT
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Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian demonstrators in Cairo and other cities, protesting for more than two weeks now, continue to call for Mubarak to leave....
Last Modified: 12 Feb 2011 08:34 GMT
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