EGYPT

Sixteen months after stepping down from power, ex-president Hosni Mubarak is still dictating the course of Egyptian politics.

Egyptians continued protesting into Sunday, outraged that a court spared Mubarak's life.

The recent discoveries of gas in the eastern Mediterranean creates a whole new energy paradigm for two nations -- Cyprus and Israel -- which formerly were believed to possess no natural resources at all. Their subsequent alliance has further upset the geopolitical balance in the Near East.

According to the judge who sentenced Mubarak, last year's uprisings ended 30 years of intense darkness -- black, black, black, the blackness of a chilly winter night.

Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life term imprisonment, Saturday, for complicity in the killing of protestors. Deposed Egyptian president was wheeled into the court room to hear the verdict, state television showed.

Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after a judge convicted him for his involvement in the killings of protesters during the uprising that ended his 30-year rule

It has been 18 months since the Arab Spring swept through the Middle East, and, while some nations have emerged with a renewed spirit, others have plunged into daily violence. Here's a country-by-country look at travel and tourism in the region as it stands now.

The emergency was imposed after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981,

After a long period of instability and conflict, we now have ahead of us an opportunity for genuine peace and security, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Thursday.

The question is whether, in light of growing human rights problems from China and Russia to the Middle East and North Africa, the United States is doing enough to factor human rights into its foreign policy.

The Middle East situation is purely theoretical to the other nations on our planet, but not to Israeli Jews.

The two men, along with their father, are already facing a litany of other charges, including official corruption, in a separate ongoing trial.

The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) arrested two men Monday evening in connection with an alleged terror plot, who have suspected links to the radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia.

Monday's incident raises a serious question: What will happen if Shafiq wins the run-off election?

Researchers at the Russian security firm Karpersky have discovered a new highly sophisticated malicious program that has been used as a cyber weapon to collect private data from thousands of computers in Middle East countries like Iran and Israel and also in North Africa.

The contemplated union of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain forms only one part of a potentially much wider alliance -- the political, military and economic integration of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which comprise Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman.

The apparent results of Egypt's first round of presidential-election voting are troubling for the country's women. Likely runoff contestants are Mohammed Morsi, who is the preferred candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood' Freedom and Justice Party, and Ahmed Shafiq, who served as air-force commander under deposed President Hosni Mubarak.

Mohammed Morsi did not attract the 50 percent majority of the votes needed to win the first round of Egypt's presidential election, so he will have to face Ahmed Shafiq in the second, and final, round on June 16-17.

Brett Kimberlin, also known as the Speedway Bomber, is the infamous male who set an Indiana town ablaze with a series of coordinated bombings in 1978. The man behind the madness was also convicted of thirty three additional crimes, including illegal use of a Department of Defense insignia, and the Presidential Seal, both of which were used to procure the hard-to-come-by explosives used in the bombings.

One represents Egypt's future -- the other its past. Who are Mohammed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq, Egypt's leading presidential candidates?

Soon after the polls closed in Egypt Thursday night, the Muslim Brotherhood asserted on its television channel that its candidate Mohamed Mursi was ahead based on the tally from some districts.