Egypt

Parliamentary elections continue in Egypt but 10 months after president Hosni Mubarak stepped down, the country is still fighting.

Artillery barrage against Syria's third city winds down as Arab League observers enter country.

Cairo's Tahrir Square scene of more protests against military rulers following escalating violence by security forces.

|Government minister hinted that the Syrian intelligence holds a number of films recorded by hidden cameras in hotel and houses rented to senior Arab officials.

Messages posted on the collective's Twitter feeds suggest the hacker cell of Anonymous has renewed its ongoing campaign in Egypt.

Thousands of Egyptian women occupied Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday to highlight the military's use of excessive violence towards female protesters.

Sachets of Class A drugs found in 1928 file at The National Archives.

Clashes between the army and protesters continued to escalate on Tuesday, a day after Egyptian general said protesters "deserve to be thrown into Hitler's oven."

Volunteers, including academic experts and concerned citizens, are engaged in frantic attempts to save whatever is left of some 192,000 books, journals and writings.

Shafilea Ahmed's parents deny any involvement of their daughter's murder.

The Egyptian military is jeopardising its credibility and legitimacy by using brutal force to crack down on pro-reform protesters ten months after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

After weeks of hesitation, Syria has finally signed the Arab League plan that will allow foreign observers into the country.

Young, old, pro regime, pro-reforms, liberals or more conservatives, women of the Arab world have broken free of the traditional patriarchy that has dominated their lives and helped shape and ferment an unprecedented revolution across the region in 2011.

Hundreds of Palestinians welcomed the freed Palestinian prisoners on their homecoming.

Violent clashes erupted early Friday between the Egyptian military and protesters staging a sit-in outside parliament in Cairo, adding to the already tense situation in the city.

Egyptian Blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah is set to stay in prison and will be tried by a civilian court for his involvement in the Maspero massacre, while other 27 people were released Thursday morning for the same case, according to reports.

Hundreds of Congolese people took to the streets of London to on Wednesday in protest at the recent elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the apparent lack of interest from the Western world.

Time has named The Protester as Person of the Year for 2011 during NBC's TODAY show.

The wig worn by Elizabeth Taylor in her most famous role has been sold at auction for £10,300 ($16000).

The Egyptian Salafist Nour Party would enforce a ban on serving alcohol to both foreigners and Egyptian nationals if it is elected.

The Muslim Brotherhood has called for a review of Egypt's peace treaty with Israel.

Sheikh Youssef al Qaradawi, the outspoken and influential Muslim cleric, has called for a UN-backed intervention in Syria if the Arab League's initiative fails to secure peace.

With the Occupy movement having survived into the holiday season, the International Business Times UK takes a look at what the movement has achieved and explores the question; how much longer can the leaderless revolution continue?

Despite spending most of his time in hiding, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah made a rare public appearance in Beifut during celebrations for the Shia holy day of Ashura.

Hamas is making contingency plans for the potential fall of the Syrian regime, Reuters reported Sunday.

Egyptians headed to the polls for the run-off of the first round of parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak was ousted as leader.

News has recently broken out that the Katla volcano in Iceland could be about to erupt, with the potential to cause global damage.

There are lots of political themes in the nativity story and we shouldn't ignore them, says a theology lecturer.

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

A 20-year-old Tunisian man attempted suicide by hanging Wednesday afternoon to protest about being passed up for a job offer.