Pakistan provisionally unblocked access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube on Saturday after taking measures to filter blasphemous material and pornography, officials said. Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in ...
From history to fiction, politics to poetry, Guardian readers pick their favourite reads of 2012 Timothy Adès London My best new books are: Victor Hugo, How to be a Grandfather, the Complete ...
Thanks to a Facebook page in the name of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supporters and opponents of Iran's supreme leader now agree on one thing: Iran should free up access to ...
Egypt's public prosecutor has ordered an inquiry into three prominent opposition leaders. The men will be investigated over charges they "incited the overthrow" of President Mohammed Morsi. The three men ...
A Turkish court on Thursday freed a prominent journalist from prison pending the outcome of a trial that has raised fears for press freedoms in Turkey, the country’s state-run agency ...
71. RAND PAUL For telling America to come home. Senator | Washington In the years since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Republican Party's base has grown increasingly wary ...
‘My father told me in our last meeting at Rawalpindi Jail that I must sacrifice everything for my country’ - Benazir Bhutto Today we pay tribute to the inimitable combination ...
Mohtarama Benazir Bhutto Shaheed (BB Shaheed) was a stateswoman par excellence whose love for her people and for her homeland was her only pride as she believed that like her ...
In Afghanistan, the lines between Taliban finance and legitimate commerce are often blurred. Matthew Green takes us through the clandestine world of the currency dealers suspected of secretly funding the ...
51. NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA For showing Africa how to break the resource curse. Finance minister | Nigeria As a candidate in this year's unusually public race for the World Bank presidency, ...
In a landmark development, a senior U.S. diplomat held discussions with leaders of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Damascus on...
The aftermath of Syria’s fight for freedom has revealed a harrowing reality: hundreds of thousands of Sunni Muslims have perished...