UPRISING

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 Syrian army's attempt to suppress a months-old popular uprising have increasingly involved Lebanon, a destination for fleeing dissidents and a country whose politics are deeply intertwined with the Syrian regime.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had just returned from chemotherapy treatments in Cuba after being diagnosed with cancer, was a close friend and colleague of Moammar Gadhafi. He has defended the Libyan leader since the start of the uprisings in February, and accused NATO of starting a people's revolution to access Libya's oil.

In a restaurant in the once bustling Hamidiyah souk of the old city of Damascus, waiters prepare to serve a handful of customers in an ornate room with many empty tables. A singer now performs there weekly, instead of every day.

Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi has blamed rebel forces in the country for the recent uprising as the people celebrate the month of Ramadan.

Amnesty international blasted Beijing for a protracted crackdown on ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, a region in China's far West, in a report issued yesterday.

China quickly blocked Google's newest offering Google+, a service that promises a better social networking experience than Facebook's. The Google+ service was not available to Chinese users, New York's Daily News said, citing sources.

The military-backed government of Burma has deported actress Michelle Yeoh, who stars as the country's famous pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming movie, officials said on Tuesday.

The 2011 Yemen unrest that started in February has intensified steadily with protestors demanding the immediate resignation of the current leadership, particularly of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

At least 20 people have been killed in Venezuela's El Rodeo Prison since a June 12 uprising began.

The protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh by the powerful tribes of Yemen left 38 dead on Tuesday as the uprising threatened to turn into a militia-led revolt.

A Google executive who became the face of the Egyptian democratic uprisings earlier this year said on Monday that social networking was now a key to political activism.

In spite of the crippling sanctions and an arms embargo approved by the international community, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi continued to show resistance and the possible reason for such confidence could 144 tons of gold that he still controls.

As dust settles down after a 12-day uprising from citizens of Egypt, leaving scores of people dead and many injured, citizens have come up with a novel idea to remember the martyrs of the uprising.

Visitors to the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising will now be able to grasp the scale of devastation inflicted on the Polish capital by Nazi German forces in World War Two with the help of a 3D film.

A lead single about a proletarian revolt against the global banking crisis. A teaser campaign involving a worldwide musical treasure hunt. And an album that ends with a three-part, fully orchestrated symphony about an alternative theory of the creation of mankind. Is Muse the only young, stadium-filling rock band that could get away with this?