Report: Mideast Uprisings Inspire World

Esam Al-Fetori / Reuters
Calling for transparency, people protest in the city centre of Benghazi against the National Transitional Council and its head, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, on Dec. 16, 2011
By AP / PAULINE JELINEK

Last year's uprisings in the Middle East have motivated people around the world to demand more rights and could inspire closed societies like Iran and North Korea to do the same, the State Department said

EU Leaders Give Concrete Plans to Fix Crisis

By AP / RAF CASERT and SARAH DiLORENZO

European Union leaders concluded their latest summit early Thursday with few concrete steps to fix the continent's festering financial crisis even as the potential for a messy Greek exit from the euro appears to be rising

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A Diamond Jubilee

As Britain celebrates the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, we take a look at the royal family and its long-serving monarch

Rights Abusers Banned from Olympics

By AP

Britain will ban leaders guilty of human rights abuses from traveling to the U.K. for the 2012 London Olympics, a senior British official said Wednesday

Iran Nuclear Talks: Why Long-Term Uncertainty Remains

By Tony Karon

Anyone banking on a big-win breakthrough in Wednesday's nuclear talks with Iran will likely find themselves in the same boat as investors who bet on an instant surge in the Facebook stock price last week

How al-Qaeda Is Gaining in Its War Against Yemen

By Tom Finn / Sana'a, Yemen

The death of more than 100 soldiers in a suicide attack punctuates the fact that the terrorist franchise in the Arabian Peninsula is the most successful of Osama Bin Laden's offspring