Gaddafi's son says that 20,000 armed men are defending his father's hometown and are ready to repel a rebel advance.

Quentin Sommerville has had exclusive access to the British Council compound, where he discussed the tragedy with Paul Smith, the director of the British Council, Afghanistan.

Thousands of migrant workers' children in Beijing have been left with no school to attend after officials abruptly closed their schools.

Families accuse Guatemala troops of burning down their homes during a hunt for suspected drugs cartel members.

Students take over the Ministry of Education in Chile as they call for the resignation of the Interior Minister.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross explains the argument of his upcoming book.

Frederic Neumann, HSBC says that a PMI of 49-50 in China is consistent with around 9 percet GDP growth and we are not seeing a slowdown yet.

International talks start in Paris to discuss Libya's possible transition to democracy.

Al Jazeera has obtained an exclusive interview with Abdelati Obeidi, Muammar Gaddafi's foreign minister, who is being detained in the capital, Tripoli.

After the U.S. provided air support while rebels toppled Col. Qaddafi’s regime in Libya, some lawmakers expect the rebels to do what the U.S. wants, but they are not as cooperative as the U.S. might have hoped.

Europe's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton travelled to Israel and the Palestinian territories this weekend in an attempt to get the parties to return to the negotiating table and get the Middle East Peace Process back on track.

Nic Robertson reports on a group of African migrants in Libya who are accused of being Gaddafi loyalists.

Karen Hooper examines the protests behind a planned road through a Bolivian nature reserve, and why Brazil is the primary financier of the project.

Troubling findings by the Commission on Wartime Contracting.