Egypt’s Scientific Institute, formed in 1798 by Napoleon Bonaparte, was burned and thousands of rare books were destroyed during the December clashes between pro-democracy protesters and security forces. Reporter Noel King has more from Cairo on efforts to salvage the books.
One of the prosecutors said that Mubarak was directly responsible for the killing of anti-government protesters during the mass protests that drove him from power.
Bolivian President Evo Morales’ efforts to take his revolution into the classroom are meeting with some resistance from the locals.
Most political prisoners in Burma are serving long sentences and are expected to remain in jail.
Anchor Marco Werman talks to Middle East correspondent for The Financial Times, Borzou Daragahi, about the growing anti-government protests and the continuing violence in Syria.
Marco Werman looks back at 2011 and ahead to 2012 with Susan Glasser, editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine.
The demonstrators in Russia protested at Pushkin square against the detention of activist Sergei Udaltsov.
[Interactive Graphic] The World’s coverage of the protests, demonstrations and revolutions, from the ‘Arab Spring’ to the ‘Occupy’ protests, as they happened.
Anti-corruption activist in India, Anna Hazare began a three-day hunger strike, his third this year, to campaign for a strong law to check corruption.
At least 40 people are killed in Syria as two suicide car bombings target security service bases in the capital, Damascus, media and officials say
The violence is depressing Syria’s economy, which in turn is diminishing the regime’s income and its ability to keep the money flowing to supporters.
Thousands of people are expected to protest Sunday against alleged fraud in the parliamentary elections earlier this month.
Technology and social media have played key roles in many of the pro-democracy movements of the Arab Spring.
The UN says more than 5,000 people have been killed in the ongoing crackdown by Syrian security forces. President Bashar Al-Assad has denied any shoot-to-kill orders and says gunmen have killed more than one thousand of his forces.
An alternative newspaper asked protesters to say a word that best describes the day. It recorded those responses and set it to music by a Russian’s 80s band Kino.
