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Pakistani actress and model, Veena Malik, had everyone's attention when rumors about her nude photoshoot for the cover of FHM India's December issue did the rounds of the Internet. There was an interesting comment made by Hafsa Ahmad, a blogger, which was carried by the Express Tribune, a Pakistani newspaper. Ahmad questioned the fuss over the issue and if Veena was actually worth it. She has been called a feminist and the voice of women's rights in her home country. The question Ahmad ...

The Muslim Brotherhood's political party -- the Freedom and Justice Party -- claimed a substantial victory in the run-off vote for Egypt's parliamentary elections.

The aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings is at a critical juncture and economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa must include all members of society to fulfill the promise of the Arab Spring, according to Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief, who spoke on Tuesday.

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party won 34 individual seats of the 45 it contested in the first runoff vote of the parliamentary election, a party source said Wednesday.

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Twitter has released a list of Hot Topics for 2011; according to its data, Hollywood actors Charlie Sheen and the late Elizabeth Taylor were among the top-trending actors for the year.

The insolvency of an Islamic mortgage lender in Canada may hinder the growth of sharia-compliant finance in North America, where the industry has struggled to gain traction in the absence of a supportive regulatory framework.

Close on the heels of a firestorm raised by the nude photographs of Egyptian Internet activist, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, a Tunisian actress has stirred up a similar controversy by posing semi-nude for a local magazine.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called on its rivals to accept the will of the people on Saturday after a first-round vote set its party on course to take the most seats in the country's first freely elected parliament in six decades.

Egypt will hear the results of elections which Islamist parties look set to win Friday, and protesters have called a rally to remember 42 people killed in clashes with police last month.

A pro-democracy blogger who was jailed for insulting UAE leaders, then pardoned and released hours later, Thursday vowed to go on with his campaign work, sounding a rare note of defiance in the Gulf Arab oil state.

Egypt has gone to polls and overwhelmingly voiced its support for the Muslim Brotherhood. What does that mean for the country's political and social future?

With early election results hinting at the shape of Egypt's first parliament since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the U.S. faces the task of navigating the dynamics between Islamist parties poised to win a commanding number of seats, skeptical liberals and a ruling military that has appeared reluctant to relinquish power.

Initial results of Egypt's first free election in six decades will emerge on Thursday, with Islamist parties expecting to command a majority in parliament, hard on the heels of victories by their counterparts in Tunisia and Morocco.

The Muslim Brotherhood has secured about 40 percent of the votes for its party list in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary election this week after counting so far, putting it ahead of other groups, a party source said on Wednesday.

Following the wave of pro-democracy demonstrations across the Middle East that have led to free and fair elections, Morocco's King Mohammed VI appointed the leader of an Islamist party to be the country's new head of government Tuesday.

Standing in long queues as Egyptians wait to cast their vote, many are tweeting, filming, and relaying their every observation, bringing a new dimension to election monitoring in the Arab world's most populous nation.

Benetton’s controversial ‘Unhate’ advertising campaign featuring national leaders kissing each other, has been unveiled along the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv and other Israeli highways.

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Kabila is widely expected to win another five-year term

Egyptians voted in droves on Monday in the first election since the fall of longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak, giving Islamists a chance to make political gains even as the army generals who replaced him cling to power.