Daniel Tovrov

Burma released some of its most important political prisoners on Friday, including members of student groups, journalists and political leaders.

The expeditious growth of industry in China in the last decade has been disastrous for the country's environment; China is the number one producer of carbon dioxide in the world

Join the live chat with Angelina Jolie who will be discussing her new movie In the Land of Blood and Honey with fans. The film, set in Bosnia, exposes the horrors of war.

During his Latin American trip this week Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with former Cuba leader Fidel Castro.

Angelina Jolie is holding a live video chat with fans on Thursday night. She will discuss her new movie In the Land of Blood and Honey and take user questions.

The body of Kim Jong-il will permanently lay in state in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Japan has joined the U.S. in its economic efforts to pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear program by agreeing to buy less Iranian oil.

The Burmese government signed a ceasefire agreement with the Karen National Union, an ethnic rebel group, on Thursday.

As Boko Haram and the unrest in Nigeria intensifies, African newspapers this week have run stories with headlines likes Nigeria: Worse Than We Thought, Boko Haram: Enough is Enough, Nigeria: A ticking time bomb and Nigeria: Armed and dangerous.

Both the United States and Israel have denied involvement in the assassination of a nuclear scientist in Iran on Wednesday. But is the claim enough for Iran?

French cameraman Gilles Jacquier was in killed in Syria on Wednesday while on a government-authorized trip to Homs, the city that has become the symbolic center of anti-government protest in the country.

Who is Joaquin Guzman (nicked named El Chapo and Shorty), the drug boss both praised by Mexican celebrities like Kate del Castillo and wanted by the FBI and the Federales?

When a country builds a skyscraper, a financial collapse will soon follow, a new report from Barclay's Capital -- suggesting investors should take a hard look at India and China.

The leader of Boko Haram, Nigeria's increasingly deadly Islamic rebel group, said that the recent attacks on Christians was revenge for years of Muslim persecution.

An Iranian nuclear scientist and his driver were killed in a car bombing in Tehran on Wednesday. Iran is already blaming the U.S. and Israel for the attack.

North Korea leadership is trying to rally the country around its new, inexperienced leader Kim Jong-un. In true North Korean fashion, that means turning the propaganda machine to full steam.

A proposed law in Israel would make the the word Nazi illegal, along with all images, photos, drawings and sculptures of the swastika or other references to Nazism, epithets and Holocaust symbols.

Islamic leaders in India are trying to prevent author Salman Rushdie from entering the country for a literature festival.

French footballer Eric Cantona said on Tuesday that he had launched a bid to join the 2012 presidential race. If serious (which it isn't) he would compete against incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist candidate Francois Hollande in April.

A mosque and an Islamic school were set on fire in Benin City, Nigeria this week. Christians and Muslims -- traditionally at odds in Nigeria -- are increasingly antagonistic and these retaliatory attacks are a bad sign of what could be to come.

One woman was killed on Tuesday when prospective students waiting outside the University of Johannesburg in South Africa stampeded to get into the school's admissions office.

On Tuesday, embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad blamed ten months of violence in his country on external conspirators.

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh has agreed to step down from power in response to ongoing protests in the country, but a stipulation that the oppressive leader will receive immunity in prosecution in exchange has restarted civil unrest in the country.

The International Atomic Energy Agency -- the United Nations' atomic watchdog -- said that Iran has started enriching uranium at a fortified underground site in Fordow, near the city of Qom.

A day of protests in Nigeria is coming to a close, but the nationwide unrest is far from over as protestors assume the Occupy moniker in an effort to re-instate a fuel subsidy and to show their distaste for President Goodluck Jonathan's government.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is taking a tour of Latin America this week. He makes stops in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador, but not Brazil.

Nigeria is in the midst of a general strike and nationwide protests against the government, which removed a fuel subsidy at the start of the year. Is there a movement and is it growing in strength?

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was acquitted of sodomy charges on Monday.

Diane Abbott, the first black woman to serve as a member of British parliament, tweeted on Jan. 3 that London cabbies sometimes don't pick up black people, a statement that has enraged the city's taxi drivers.