The 12th Special Session of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum was held in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Officials from more than 100 countries attended the meeting.

Tunisian Higher Education teachers went on a strike by holding a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Higher Education in the Capital and its offices throughout the country to condemn the rising level of violence and insecurity in Universities.

In Shanghai, a law court began hearing a case brought by a Chinese technology firm seeking to halt the sale of Apple Computer's iPads across the city, accusing the US firm of trademark infringement.

Afghans are protesting for the second day after copies of Quran were burnt by American forces at their base. People gathered outside Camp Phoenix in Kabul . It is another U.S military base. The protestors attacked it with stones.

A Book launching ceremony was held in Gaza city, which saw the release of a 4-part book about the detailed diaries of Abdul Rahman al-Farra, an elected Palestinian leader who served as the mayor of Khanyounis between 1926 to 1962.

Lee Myung-bak, President of South Korea, addressed reporters in a nationally televised speech as he entered his final year in office.

French nuclear plants are in the middle of a raging storm between claims and counter claims. Last week, the state run Nuclear Safety Authority released its annual report. All nuclear plants in France are safe it said, even in the case of a Fukushima like accident.

It was difficult to catch a train in Portugal this Thursday...

The Malaysian government has come under rap for making a national insurance-based system to fund health care mandatory, following the US health care system. Civil society members and opposition politicians say that forking out a compulsory 10% of the salary for basic health care would further burden the poor.

The upcoming presidential elections drew leading business, political, cultural and scientific elite to the round table to discuss the hot topic… the future of the Russia.

A report by a subcommittee of the Ugandan parliament presented to the cabinet said the provision for removal of one of the vice president and prime minister should first be provided for through a constitutional amendment. The cabinet rejected the proposal to amend the parliamentary rules.

According to the U.S. Census the American population is growing at the slowest rate since the Great Depression. For two straight years the population has grown at just 0.7 percent, the lowest it has been since the 1930's, now some are saying that slow rate is a result of the recession. Tara Sinclair is an Economic Professor at George Washington University.

The Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest and oldest youth organizations in the United States. More than 4 and half million children take part in its programs. Founded in 1910 the original stated purpose of the Scouts was to teach boys quote patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred values.

Let go for decades, a once bright city like Tripoli is in need of renovation. Its not just restricted to the capital, but also the regions that make up Libya.

Security in West Africa is clearly high on the priority lists of Western nations -- judging by the high-level diplomats in attendance at Tuesday's UN Security Council meeting.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has unveiled her “Plan for Europe” and as national sovereignty is at the core of her ideology, her solution is for France to leave the European Union.

More fiscal discipline and stronger budgetary surveillance. This is what EU finance ministers agreed on at a meeting in Brussels. The measures are part of two pieces of legislation which the European Commission presented recently. The proposals cover the monetary union of the 17 countries that use the Euro.

Anti- Assad statements from Lebanon: This time not from the March 14 alliance led by former premier Saad Hariri but from Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt.

Yasser Abdelmouttalib was a promising PhD student in London before his future was shattered in a vicious Islamophobic attack in 2004, while he was travelling on a London bus.

The French Constitutional Council has rejected calls they made for a change in election rules, making it easier for bigger parties.

In Beijing, North Korea's top nuclear negotiator, first Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan arrived ahead of talks with his American counterpart Glyn Davies, and scheduled to take place in the Chinese capital on February 23.

Kalina Vasileva is 20 years old… A student of Economics, Kalina says studying Finance has been her dream since she was 10 years old… she’s an average youth: has plans for a family and dreams of retirement somewhere warm and sunny.

Violence in south and east Yemen has marred the country’s single-candidate presidential election. Multiple attacks rocked polling stations in southern city of Aden, killing a number of people and injuring many others.

Under local and international pressure, Israeli authorities have opened the al-Qunitera crossing in the occupied Golan Heights to allow a number of people to visit their relatives in Syria.

Occupy Wall Street Movement Conference in Tehran. University professors and scholars from around the world discussed various aspects of Occupy Wall Street Movement. Scholars talked about the nature of the people that take part in the Wall Street movement , what affects it has had up to now and its future. Some Experts believe that the movement is not composed of jobless people as some claim.

A large protest outside the largest U.S military base in Afghanistan over the burning of Holy Quran!

Is this Georgia’s government in waiting? Bidzina Ivanishvili, the world’s richest Georgian and leader of this new coalition, certainly thinks so.

On May 15th 2011 tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon flocked to the southern Lebanese town of Maroun al-Ras to protest the day Israel destroyed hundreds of Palestinian villages and expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their own land.

Greece has finally secured a second bailout to avoid a default in the short run. After months of wrangling, Eurozone finance ministers agreed on the deal during a 13-hour meeting in Brussels.

Thailand GDP has shrunk 10.7% in October-December, more than economists had predicted. According to the government's data, the country's GDP dived 9% compared to the same period in 2010. The worst floods in 50 years that have inundated two-thirds of the country in combination with weaker US and European demand are to blame for the poor numbers. Thai Chamber of Commerce declared that the economic recovery remains fragile due to political uncertainty and soaring energy costs.

The New York City Police Department is spying on Muslim groups and Middle Eastern communities far outside city limits -- according to reports.

In a presser held by the High Judicial Elections Commission for the Presidential election, Judge Farouk Sultan, the head of the commission said the day of the first post Mubarak presidential vote is not finalized yet.

About two thousand people, mainly ethnic Turks and other expatriates, have staged a protest rally in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen to condemn the murder of a Turkish man named Cem Aydin.

Anger on the streets of Pakistan against the continued US violation of the country’s sovereignty.

The UK government’s position towards Iran is, unsurprisingly, not much different from the US.