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When Beyonce gave birth to Blue Ivy Carter in January, everyone oohed and aahed over the uniqueness of her baby's name and the potential meaning behind it. So what's in a name? Beyonce posted a poem on her Tumblr revealing more information about her first child's name.

Tour operators are offering steep discounts to Greece amid speculation about a Greek euro exit and fears of ensuing social unrest.

Ex-dictator Hosni Mubarak is slipping in and out of consciousness eight days after he was sent to prison to begin serving a life sentence, an Egyptian security official said Sunday.

Israel received about 4,600 asylum applications from Africans last year, according to the U.S. State Department. About 3,700 were rejected, while only one was approved. The others are pending.

A statement from the wife of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been released online, praising the role of women in the Arab Spring uprisings that have toppled authoritarian governments throughout North Africa and the Middle East in the past year and a half.

Egypt's ruling military council is paving the way for a new constitution after the original drafting committee was disbanded in April over complaints that the Muslim Brotherhood unfairly dominated the group.

In 2009, the Economist Intelligence Unit devised an acronym for six emerging countries, CIVETS, which includes Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. These countries were categorized as the six countries with the best chance of high, long-term growth.

Egyptian state news reports that Hosni Mubarak has experienced severe health problems since he was sentenced to life in prison. He may now be moved out of jail and into a hospital.

Ulpana is a tiny Israeli settler outpost in the West Bank that has been making headlines after the Israeli Supreme Court said it had to be demolished.

Hamad al-Naqi, a 26-year-old Shia Muslim, was arrested after officials found a series of provocative posts on his Twitter account. He has now been convicted of insulting Islam and endangering state security by exacerbating sectarian tensions.

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.