David Ensoron the challenges and goals of building acivilian communications structure in Afghanistan.

Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that America will not cut and run in 2014, when the U.S.-led military coalition plans to hand over control of security to Afghan forces.

Russian icebreakers set out on Tuesday to come to the aid of Russian seamen whose ship has become trapped in ice. (Jan. 11)

Al Jazeera has received footage of convoys, suspected of carrying arms, entering the state of South Kordofan.

Summary of business headlines: Oil tops $91; Verizon officially announces iPhone sale; MySpace sends out pink slips; GM eyes global growth in rebirth; Wall Street rallies on upbeat earnings.

Daniel Gai, one of the "Lost boys of Sudan," speaks out on Southern Sudan's independence referendum.

Melting snow and ice continue to flood towns in western Germany.

Julian Assange appears in a London court for an extradition hearing.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Yemen to step up security cooperation with the United States during an unannounced visit to shore up ties with a nation that is fast becoming a major focus of American counterterrorism efforts. (Jan. 11)

A Nigerian state election exposes faults and indicates possible chaos ahead for a national vote of 150 million in April.

From Facebook postings to political cartoons, social media is seen by many diplomats and extremists as a weapon of "soft power" in the war to win the hearts and minds of people.

Directly after a hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels on the controversial new media law in Hungary, Miklós Haraszti discusses the situation in Hungary with Georgi Gotev.

Eugene Chausovsky examines Poland's push to increase Western political ties with opposition parties in Belarus.

In Iraq's northern mountains, the controversial Kurdistan Workers' Party shows signs of adjusting its rhetoric in response to the political and economic changes in Turkey and Iraq.