Rebels to the west and east of Tripoli battled Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's forces Wednesday night for control of oil facilities vital to the civil war's outcome. The United States also deployed two more Predator drones for surveillance operations.
French military barracks will be converted to mosques.
In a sensational bid to finance its vast economic reforms, Egypt has rekindled its interest in Islamic finance amid growing pressure to rebuild the country using internal financing.
The trial of Hosni Mubarak in Cairo will be postponed for three weeks. When it resumes, the television cameras will have been removed from the courtroom.
The trial of the former Egyptian president has been adjourned and banned from live broadcast, a judge in charge of the trail announced on Monday.
Libyan regime denies talking to insurgents about dictator's departure.
Economist Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini, the NYU professor who four years ago accurately predicted the global financial crisis, says tough medicine is needed to end it: another round of massive fiscal stimulus or a universal debt restructuring. If neither occurs, a systemic flaw will, at minimum, continue to hinder economic recovery.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) of San Francisco shut down underground cell phone communications for a few hours at various stations on Thursday night.
"Just Like a Woman," a movie starring Sienna Miller, is the first in Oscar-nominated director Rachid Bouchareb's planned trilogy about the changing relationship between Americans and the Arab world.
Give back while you travel by participating in one of the thousands of voluntourism trips around the globe.
Anonymous, the digital protesters who specialize in temporarily disabling targeted websites, posted a YouTube video July 16 threatening to destroy Internet giant Facebook. The video went viral the second week of August and now has over 1.4 million views. At the same time, the @anonops twitter feed, thought by many to be one of the official mouthpieces of the group, tweeted Operation Facebook was fake August 9. Anonymous has no central leadership or designated spokespeople, leaving analysts and F...
German tourism and shipping group TUI AG abandoned its forecast for higher 2011 profit, as uprisings in North Africa put tourists off and in the face of a tough shipping environment.
Syrian forces killed at least five people in an assault on two northern towns on Thursday, activists said, pursuing a military campaign to crush protests against President Bashar al-Assad despite new U.S. sanctions and regional calls to end bloodshed.
Egypt has begun procedures to end the country's three-decade old state of emergency, the government said on Thursday, a key demand of the protesters who toppled President Hosni Mubarak in February.
The hacker collective Anonymous has vowed to 'destroy' Facebook on Nov. 5, as Facebook is "selling information to government agencies" and "giving clandestine access to information security firms," according to a YouTube video.
The hacking group Anonymous is threatening to "destroy" Facebook on Nov. 5.
Online hacking group Anonymous uploaded a YouTube video last month threatening to destroy Facebook. On Tuesday, that warning started gaining prominence, as the group warns the 750 million Facebook fans that the social network they all "so dearly adore will be destroyed."
Smartphone makre RIM has said it will help police investigate BlackBerry users who have used its messenger service to aid the London riots.
Syrian forces killed at least 30 people and moved into a town near the Turkish border on Tuesday, an activist group said, even as Turkey's foreign minister pressed President Bashar al-Assad to halt assaults on protests against his rule.
An Egyptian judge on Monday asked to see minutes of a meeting when a decision was taken to cut mobile and Internet services during an uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak, a move that could draw the ruling military into the controversy.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pressed on with a tank onslaught against a city on Monday, but was plunged deeper into international isolation by Arab neighbours who denounced his violent crackdown and recalled their envoys from Damascus.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis gathered in the streets of Tel Aviv and other major Israeli cities on Saturday night to protest the high cost of living for the middle class, in one of the largest social rallies in Israeli history.
