For the first time in a century, a reigning British monarch will make an official state trip to the Republic of Ireland, Buckingham Palace has announced.
Thousands of people have gathered on the streets of Manama, Bahrain, to protest against the government, a day after reports of violent sectarian clashes between the rival Sunni and Shia communities
Members of the Houthi insurgent group in north Yemen said armed government soldiers forces fired rockets and artillery on their anti-government protest, killed two people and injured seven others.
At least thirty civilians have been killed in the western city of Az Zawiyah after soldiers loyal to Moammar Gaddafi tried to seize control of the rebel-dominated town, which is near the capitol of Tripoli.
University of California, Berkeley students ended a potentially dangerous protest atop the fourth story ledge of one of the buildings on campus on Thursday, as they demanded a halt to cuts in the school's budget.
China will beef up its military budget by 12.7 percent this year, the government said on Friday, a return to double-digit spending increases that will stir regional unease.
A behemoth dragon-shaped shopping mall in the desert near Dubai has become a symbol of the deepening links between East Asia and the Middle East.
China's plan for the next five years will put a hard target on overall energy use, capping consumption at 4 billion tonnes of coal equivalent (TCE) by 2015, Xinhua news agency quoted the country's former energy chief Zhang Guobao as saying on Friday.
China said on Friday its military spending for 2011 would rise 12.7 percent, resuming double-digit hikes that have stoked regional disquiet about Beijing's expanding strength.
An angry mob of fired steel plant workers in eastern India took revenge by burning a senior executive to death in his car.
The new prime minister of Egypt, Essam Sharaf, has vowed to enact democratic reforms, speaking before a cheering crowd of at least 10,000 people in Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Smiling and cheering protesters exited the Wisconsin state capitol on Thursday past a file of state law enforcement officers on Thursday after a judge's ruling that the public could remain in the building only during normal office hours.
The Libyan telecommunications operator has cut off Internet traffic from inside the country.
Thousands of people have attended the funeral of Shahbaz Bhatti, the former Pakistani minorities affairs minister who was murdered on Wednesday.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed concern on Thursday that the United States was losing the information war internationally, and especially in the Middle East, drawing a critical comparison between the U.S. media and broadcaster Al Jazeera.
Many Bangladeshis remain stuck in Tripoli and other cities, but cannot leave due to the extremely volatile situation between pro- and anti-Gaddafi forces; while others have struggled to cross into neighboring Tunisia.
Moammar Gaddafi has reportedly hired the services of hundreds of Tuaregs from the nation of Mali and Niger as mercenaries in Libya.
Libyan state television Al-Jamahiriyah has broadcast footage of three Dutch soldiers (including one woman) who were captured by forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi while trying to help evacuate foreign citizens from the strife-torn country.
Security forces in the Libyan capitol of Tripoli have fired tear gas on hundreds of protesters who gathered on the streets after Friday prayers.
Crude prices will touch $200 a barrel if the Arab revolution spreads to Saudi Arabia, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said on Friday.
China is ramping up its military spending at a time its financial firepower is increasingly in focus after it unseated Japan as the second biggest economy in the world.
President Barack Obama unleashing surprising sense of humor on Discovery astronauts in a lighthearted conversation on Robonaut 2, the first humanoid in space.
BP's $7.2-billion deal to jump into India's oil and gas sector with Reliance Industries is the first sign of new investment that could attract more players, helping to boost output and meet surging demand.
Indian banks overall have sufficient capital to meet the new Basel III standard but a few may need to augment their capital to get there, Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said on Thursday.
China's insurance regulator is considering raising the proportion of assets that insurers may invest in unsecured bonds to 30 percent from the current 20 percent, IFR reported on Thursday, citing sources.
Chinese banks extended less than 600 billion yuan ($91.31 billion) in new loans in February, the China Securities Journal reported on Friday quoting industry sources.
The loose monetary policy in the United States is little better than a narcotic and will harm the rest of the world more than it helps Americans, a former Chinese vice commerce minister told Reuters.
Opposition leaders who now control much of eastern Libya have rejected overtures to enter into negotiations unless Muammar Gaddafi steps down and departs into exile.
The following is a transcript of a press conference on March 3, 2011 at the Georgia State Capitol with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich where he discusses an initiative to reduce the size of the federal government by creating a 'Tenth Amendment Implementation Act' and his plan to explore a possible presidential run in 2012.
The director of the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) has quit over the school’s connections to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.
