Scenes from Cairo's throbbing epicentre as it cries itself hoarse for change. Momens of anguish and passion, and a people united in defiance and will.

Protests erupted in Sunni regions across Lebanon on Monday as outgoing premier Saad Hariri's party accused the Shiite Hezbollah of staging a coup by imposing its candidate to head a new government. Demonstrations broke out in various regions with a significant Sunni population where protesters burned tires and blocked major roads as they vented their anger, signalling future tensions and hostilities, at the likely appointment of billionaire Najib Mikati to replace Hariri, Lebanon's most popular Sunni leader.

The Palestine Papers are the largest news leak in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and publications of information hiden from public records. A cache of nearly 1,700 files, relased from January 23 by Al-Jazeera. Thousands of pages of diplomatic correspondence detailing the inner workings of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, documents—memos, e-mails, maps, minutes from private meetings, accounts of high level exchanges, strategy papers and even power point presentations - date from 1999 to 2010, will be released to January 26, 2011. The documents were obtained by Al-Jazeera and shared ...

At least 50 people died in a spate of explosions across Iraq on Thursday, including 45 in twin suicide car bombs that rocked the holy city of Karbala, the third major attack in as many days. The attacks mostly targeted pilgrims marking the Shiite Muslim mourning day of Arbaeen, and were the latest in a series of bombings that have shattered a relative calm in Iraq following the formation of a new government last month.

SHARM ELSHEIKH, Jan 19 (KUNA) -- The Second Arab Economic and Social Development kicked off here on Wednesday with the aim of promoting Arab integration. The Kuwaiti delegation to the Summit is headed by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who will hand over the summit presidency to Egyptian President Mohammad Hosni Mubarak. The Summit agenda includes a number of important decisions and projects in the fields of Arab development, economic, and social related. Sharm El-Sheikh summit also aims towards activating and implementing resolutions of the first ...

Weeks of violent protests fueled by corruption, widespread unemployment and a lack of liberty toppled one of the Arab world's most entrenched leaders, who fled this North African country Friday after 23 years of rule. President Zine el Abidine ben Ali handed power to his prime minister, Mohamed Ghannouchi. Authorities established a curfew across the nation of 10 million people, and the prime minister promised broad consultations starting Saturday on political and economic reforms. Ben Ali's departure was a major milestone in the Arab world, where longstanding authoritarian rulers exercise ...

A referendum is taking place in Southern Sudan from 9 January until 15 January 2011 on whether the region should remain a part of Sudan or be independent. The referendum is one of the consequences of the 2005 Naivasha Agreement between the Khartoum central government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M). A simultaneous referendum was supposed be held in Abyei on whether to become part of Southern Sudan but it was postponed due to conflict over demarcation and residency rights.

The FIFA Ballon d'Or (Golden Ball) prize is considered the top award for individual players in the sport of football. It was created in 2010 by merging the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. The Ballon d'Or has a long and venerable history, being created by France Football magazine in 1956 to recognise the top European player of the year. Voted for by journalists, the competition was opened up to players of all nationalities playing in Europe by 1995; in 2007 players from every country ...

Dog fighting has been documented in the recorded history of many different cultures, and is presumed to have existed since the initial domestication of the species. Many breeds have been bred specifically for the strength, attitude, and physical features that would make them better fighting dogs. Scholars speculate that large-scale human migration, development of trade, and gifts between royal courts of valuable fighting dogs facilitated the spread of fighting dog breeds. There are many accounts of military campaigns which used fighting dogs, as well as royal gifts in the form ...

Heavy rainstorms on Wednesday had hampered the start of the annual Muslim event in the city of Mecca. It quotes officials as saying the deaths had been caused by flooding and collapsed homes. Witnesses said many of the victims were trapped in cars and buses. Twenty-one of the dead were Saudis and the rest were foreign immigrants resident in the country, said Jeddah civil defence chief Abdullah al-Amri, quoted by the Associated Press. The floods hit particularly hard in the shantytowns around the city, he added.

At least 21 people were killed and 70 hurt in the suspected suicide attack, which happened during a New Year's Eve service at the al-Qiddissin Church. In a rare televised address, Mr Mubarak said it bore the hallmark of "foreign hands" seeking to destabilise Egypt. Several hundred Christians later clashed nearby with Muslims and police. There was no claim for the attack but Al-Qaeda has called for punishment of Egypt's Copts over claims that two priests' wives they say had converted to Islam were being held by the Church against ...