Political Affairs

Fewer people live in extreme poverty today than 30 years ago, new estimates find. But 1.2 billion people in the world still live on less than $1.25 a day.

A Pakistani court has ordered the arrest of former president Pervez Musharraf in connection with charges relating to his showdown with the judiciary in 2007 when he was still in power, his spokesperson has said. Islamabad High Court on Thursday ordered...

Pervaiz Mushrraf Escape from Judiciary in Pictures

Picture of IDP camp in Sudan resulting from the Darfur conflict. Original captions states: "Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) use sticks and scraps of plastic to construct makeshift shelters at Intifada transit camp near Nyala in South Darfur. These...

Last Journey of Margeret Thathar

Waterboarding is a form of torture in which water is poured over cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning. Waterboarding can cause extreme pain, dry drowning,...

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States military located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in January 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees it had...

World Most Beautiful Places

1922, Departure of Mehmed VI who was the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿOsmâniyye [4] Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu), also historically referred to as the...

Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat (also Erakat or Arekat ; Arabic : صائب عريقات Ṣāʼib ʻUrayqāt or ʻRēqāt ) born April 28, 1955, in Jordanian-controlled East Jerusalem , [1] [2] was the Palestinian chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee until 12 February...