The United Nations say Libya has agreed to let a UN team into the country to assess the humanitarian situation.
Residents of some rebel-held cities in Libya were living in a state of siege Monday, as troops loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi launched air and ground attacks in an offensive aimed at winning back lost territory.
The confusion surrounding the detention and then release of several British nationals – including members of the Special Air Service – in Libya has generated as much interest as the incident itself. However, little information is available on why a group of British men arrived unauthorized and unannounced in Libya. Below is an overview of what can be confirmed about the incident.
Hamid Karzai forced to back down over expulsion of mercenary companies, with many likely to remain in countr
The interim government in Tunisia dissolves the country's secret police service, blamed for human rights abuses during President Ben Ali's rule.
Kuwaiti youth groups will take to the streets on Tuesday to demand the removal of the prime minister and for more political freedom in the Gulf Arab state, the world’s fourth largest oil exporter.
Yemen’s opposition coalition vowed on Monday to escalate protests that have swept the country demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, after he rejected a plan that would have him step down in 2011.
Veteran diplomat Amr Moussa talked economics and social justice when he hit the campaign trail for the Egyptian presidency with a string of interviews that flagged him as the front runner for the job.
Members of Egypt's new cabinet are sworn into office at a ceremony in the captial, Cairo, almost a month after popular protests ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
An annual intelligence report to Congress has dropped language stating that Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions are a future option.
Tokyo's outspoken Governor says his country, which suffered history's only nuclear attack, should build nuclear weapons to counter the threat from fast-rising China.
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said on Monday he saw possible movement in a probe into allegations of covert atomic activities in Syria, but once again criticized Iran for lack of cooperation.
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague announced on Monday the U.K. will upgrade the status of Palestinian representatives in London, ahead of talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.![http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/564430/s/133391ac/mf.gif]()
At least 56 combatants were killed in clashes between militia fighters and soldiers in South Sudan's Upper Nile state, just four months before the region is due to become independent.
Bahrain’s crown prince warned all sides against escalating a standoff with disgruntled majority Shiites seeking an elected government in the Gulf Arab kingdom, asking for patience ahead of a national dialogue.
His Majesty Sultan Qaboos has issued eight Royal Decrees. Royal Decree No 31/ 2011 restructures the Council of Ministers.
Saudi Arabia has freed a Shia cleric whose arrest provoked protests and sparked calls for a "day of rage" on Friday, human rights activists say.
NGO Monitor announces efforts to combat Apartheid Week with “BDS Sewer System” to detail sources of delegitimization campaigns.
Thousands of auxiliary police marched across Algeria on Monday to demand a pay raise, breaking through heavy security to reach parliament in a rare mass show of dissent in the tightly controlled countr
Tunisia's prime minister named a new government Monday after a spate of resignations that has revived questions about the country's post-revolution direction
Iraq's coalition government has yet to fulfill Iraqi hopes and is on increasingly shaky ground. Iyad Allawi pulled out of a powersharing deal this weekend.
Rebels in Ivory Coast claim to have seized a town after a fierce battle in the country’s volatile west near the border with Liberia, panicking tens of thousands of refugees who already had fled violence over a deepening political crisis.
President Obama on Monday lifted the ban he imposed two years ago on military trials for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison, ending his bid to move most terrorism trials to civilian courts and pushing his already busted deadline for shuttering the island prison indefinitely forward.
In USA, Republicans meet in Iowa to hear from potential candidates to run against Barack Obama for the presidency in 2012.
Pacific island is home to 34 US military bases and focus of escalating tension between Japan and China
Last minute legal query may delay the first trial of a former French leader since the Second World
Move raises prospect that she could go on to take a seat in the House of Lords.
The federal government posted its largest monthly deficit in history in February, a $223 billion shortfall that put a sharp point on the current fight on Capitol Hill about how deeply to cut this year's spendi
A top Federal Reserve official on Monday said the central bank should react if oil prices soar as high as $150 a barrel because prices that high could throw the economy back into recession.
China will surpass the United States as the world's largest consumer of uranium during the 2020s as the nation's imports rise sharply to feed a growing nuclear industry, a high-level energy official told China Daily.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus said Monday the Bangladeshi government is seeking to gain control of the prize-winning bank he founded to provide loans to the poor....
Bill Gates didn't lose his title as the world's richest man last year; he gave it away by plowing billions into his charitable foundation, experts say.
Ivory Coast's disputed President Laurent Gbagbo issues a decree ordering the government to control all of the country's cocoa purchases and exports.
Muammar Gaddafi's son, Mutassim, was taught at London's Soas while the charity of another son donated £1.5m to the LSE
According to David Eagleman, a respected scientist and the author of Why the Net Matters, 21st-century technology obviates the causes that led past civilisations to collapse and because of this, he argues, that the web is crucial to our survival
A landmark film about the Holocaust, Shoah, is to be shown for the first time on a satellite TV channel which broadcasts into Iran.
About 10,000 houses in Christchurch may have to be demolished because of earthquake damage, while some parts of the city may have to be abandoned altogether, New Zealand's Prime Minister, John Key, said yesterday.
A suit over a bicycle path incorporates criticism of the city’s overall approach in carrying out the initiatives of the transportation commissioner
A NASA scientist claims he has discovered extraterrestrial life in a fringe journal. Science bloggers aren't so convinced.
A Cornish MP urges people in the county to describe their nationality as "Cornish" in the 2011 Census.
Cultural and natural sites are being submerged as Turkey races to double its power output by
The world's first tissue-engineered urethras, grown in the lab using patients' own cells, have been hailed a success by medical experts.
A Christian ministry from Oakland, California believes the end of the world is upon us. It says the May 21, 2011 is judgment day.
India, home to some of the world's most dangerous driving, is punishing its worst offenders by forcing them to work as traffic police.
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