The murder trial of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, which began behind closed doors in Moscow earlier this week, is already marred by intrigue.

United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti was extended for another year, by unanimous vote of the UN Security Council.

Iraqi Christians are lining up at checkpoints as thousands flee their neighborhoods for safety, following a series of attacks targeted at Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Ireland announced that it would guarantee all bank deposits in order to regain confidence in the Irish banking system. The potential risk for the Irish taxpayer is €400 billion. Or to put it another way, it’s over 200 percent of Ireland’s GDP.

Senator Barack Obama may have won last night's President debate in the U.S., but in Brazil, another Barack Obama just lost the election.

Last month a religious leader in Morocco, Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman al-Maghraoui, received a question on his website about whether a woman can get married before reaching puberty. He responded by issuing a fatwa, or religious ruling, saying it was lawful for a Muslim man to marry girls as young as nine years old.

Ras Al Khaimah has become the latest emirate in the United Arab Emirates to ban smoking in public places.

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is the latest celebrity to enter the United Arab Emirates’ booming real-estate market.

The clothing police are cracking down on streaks of vibrant color, bands of glittering crystal and sexy leopard skin prints popping up on the runway—or rather, in this case, in Saudi Arabia's marketplaces.

Chinese lawyers are contemplating the possibility of a class-action lawsuit against dairy manufacturers, but will the Chinese government allow them access to the courts?

With one of the world’s fastest growing economies, India is experiencing a lot of growing pains. Tensions have exploded recently, leading to violent protests.

After two years of struggling to get its news programming to American living rooms, Al Jazeera English’s program Witness will now be available to 30 million households in the U.S. via Link TV.