Palash Ghosh

The civil unrest roiling the Middle East may have spilled over into Europe as tens of thousands of Serbian nationalists staged a massive anti-government rally in the capital, Belgrade.

Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (who is facing his own serious problems) has praised embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as a “wise man” and urged an orderly transition for the country to democracy.

Credit Agricole bank estimates that the ongoing political crisis in Egypt is costing the country’s economy at least $310-million per day, according to a report.

French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY) might make another deal to acquire U.S. biotech firm Genzyme (Nasdaq: GENZ) before Wednesday, the day Sanofi is scheduled to release its 2010 results, sources have told Reuters.

Reflecting a growing national trend in the U.S., Hispanics have become the largest minority in the state of New Jersey, supplanting blacks, according to Census Bureau data.

Hurricane Katrina reduced the population of the New Orleans by almost one-third, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) said it will more than double spending this year in order to generate annual sales of $10 billion by 2014.

Among the issues raised by the recent outbreak of civil unrest in the Middle East and North Africa is the rapidly growing population in some of these countries. This subject has particularly stark implications for Israel.

The U.S. economy added a mere net new 36,000 jobs last month, although the unemployment rate fell sharply to 9.0 percent from 9.4 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Three Pakistan cricket team players and an agent will face corruption charges, according to Britain’s the Crown Prosecution Service

In a probable response to the unrest rolling through the Middle East and North, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has reportedly promised to lift the country’s state of emergency in the very near future.”

With Valentine’s Day coming up in a few weeks, we may witness more battles in the endless and epic battle between Western values and Eastern resistance

The youngest son of imprisoned Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling has been found dead in his apartment in Santa Ana, Calif., according several media sources.

Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that his country would sink into chaos if he were to resign.

Fashion designer Kenneth Cole has sparked outrage with a tweet that appears to trivialize the ongoing political turmoil in Egypt.

French actress Maria Schneider who attained everlasting fame and notoriety from starring in the controversial film “Last Tango in Paris” has died in the French capital at the age of 58.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech to the National Press Club on Feb. 3, 2011

KTRK television station in Houston, Tex. Is showing a video that appears to show Houston police officers beating, kicking and stomping on a teen burglary suspect last March.

The oil-rich state of Kuwait is considering a proposal to give citizenship to skilled foreign workers and their families as it competes with Dubai for overseas talent.

About two out of every five (41 percent) pregnancies in New York are aborted – more than double the national rate (19 percent). This news comes as an increasing number of state legislatures are seeking measures to restrict abortions.

Here is a collection of reaction to the latest escalation of civil unrest and violence in Egypt from around the world:

Saudi Arabia has eased its real estate and investment laws to allow foreigners residing and working in the kingdom to purchase and own properties there. The move is widely seen as a way to revive the country’s moribund real estate market.

A female Pakistani politician has withdrawn her proposal to amend the nation’s laws of blasphemy after it became clear the government would not change it.

Match.com, an operating business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), purchased OkCupid this morning for $50 million in cash, plus potential future payments contingent upon performance.

There were about 11.2 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. in 2010, slightly above the prior year’s figures, according to a study by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan Washington-based research organization in Washington.

Stocks finished narrowly mixed in uneasy trading as the political crisis in Egypt seems to be worsening as fighting between forces supporting President Hosni Mubarak and those who oppose him intensify.

Police have taken into custody a school employee in connection with a shooting that seriously wounded an adult this morning at an elementary school in Placerville, California.

Bangladeshi police have arrested four people, including a Muslim cleric, as part of an investigation into the death of a teenage girl who died after a public lashing.

The former telecommunications minister of India, A. Raja, has been placed under arrest as part of a probe into a multi-billion corruption investigation.