Thousands of Tunisian Islamists and secularists warred outside the interim parliament on Saturday, rallying against extremism as lawmakers draft a new constitution for Tunisia.
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.
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.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have become the example of the more the merrier cliché, as the couple has plans to adopt a 7th child to add to the Brangelina gang.
The PJD's victory is a victory for democracy, Fassi said.
History will remember 2011 as the year of the popular uprising. The common man is creating history in different corners of the world. What else do the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street protests, the anti-austerity protests in Greece and Spain, and the anti-corruption campaign in India herald?
The year is giving out, and it was not exactly an annus mirabilis. However, 2011 had its sensational moments, marked by major political upheavals in the Middle East, deaths of historic figures, and economic uncertainty highlighted by the Occupy movement.
Egyptians frustrated by army rule battled police in Cairo streets again on Tuesday as the military struggled to cope with a challenge to its authority that has jolted plans for the country's first free election in decades.
Year-to-date, company shares have plunged about 93 percent.
Tunisia's Islamist-led ruling coalition will keep the country's ministers of defence and finance and the central bank governor in their posts when it announces a new government, a senior coalition source told Reuters on Monday.
Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, said that self-immolation is almost regular in protest against China.
The economically insecure country of Portugal is seeking investment from its former colony, Angola.
At least 69 people were killed in southern Syria on Monday, most of them in clashes between army deserters and troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, activists said on Tuesday.
Sudan could see the next Arab revolution because anger is rising over an economic crisis and government repression worse than in Egypt before the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, an opposition leader said on Monday.
Anonymous, the famed hacktivist organization, is apparently planning a major operation on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. The group released a video on YouTube explaining their intentions.
A Tunisian court ruled on Tuesday that the man who served as prime minister under Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi should be extradited to Libya.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has condemned the petrol bomb attack on the Paris offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hedbo, saying it was an assault on freedom of expression.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fully accepted an Arab League peace plan on Wednesday to end seven months of violence and protests.
The offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hedbo, which published a special Arab Spring edition Wednesday with the prophet Muhammad as guest editor-in-chief, were destroyed in a petrol bomb attack overnight, police said.
Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly says it has named the Prophet Mohammed as editor-in-chief for its next issue to celebrate the election win of Tunisia's Islamist party.
Qatar will hold its first legislative election in two years, Qatar News Agency reported, citing a statement by the ruling emir.
President Barack Obama's official Facebook page has been targeted by a sustained string of Facebook comments comparing him to oppressive Arab leaders and questioning the handling of the Occupy Wall Street protests.