WASHINGTON- Egypt's last working Internet service provider, the Noor Group, went down on Monday, a US Web monitoring company said, leaving the crisis-torn country completely offline. Renesys, a...

JERUSALEM- A prominent Arab-Israeli human rights activist was sentenced to nine years in jail on Sunday after pleading guilty to spying for Lebanon's Hezbollah, an Israeli court official said....

DOHA- Since its launch 14 years ago, pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera has become a major player in the Arab world, giving a voice to opponents from various backgrounds. Founded in the Gulf...

CAIRO- Some prisoners at Cairo's Abu Zaabel prison on Sunday refused to leave their cells despite a mass breakout by other convicts amid a nationwide revolt, saying they only had a short time left to...

PARIS- Hundreds of protestors in France on Saturday demanded Egypt's Hosni Mubarak to step down as French President Nicolas Sarkozy joined Britain and Germany in an appeal to him to avoid violence....

SAO PAULO, Anella Reta- Despite the arrival of some of the biggest names in the fashion and entertainment world, all eyes at the Winter 2011 fashion week that kicks off here Friday are on a new...

TUNIS, Kaouther Larbi and Hassan El Fekih- Tunisia on Thursday unveiled radical changes to its interim government in a bid to put an end to daily protests, replacing five ministers from disgraced...

JOHANNESBURG, Tabelo Timse - South Africa's revered former president Nelson Mandela was on Thursday described as "very sick" but his condition was "not life threatening", a source close to the...

RAMALLAH- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Tuesday dismissed the leak of hundreds of secret files on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks as nothing but a "boring soap opera." Arriving back in the...