As the Arab Spring celebrates its one-year anniversary, the West is cautiously awaiting the next step. Will democracy flourish in the Middle East and North Africa? Or will authoritarianism and fundamental Islam be the basis for the new governments born from the revolutions of 2011?
Many Syrians are crossing the border to Jordan to seek refuge from violent repression in their home country. Six men are being held in a detention center awaiting international help.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake off the central Philippines island of Negros kills at least seven people.
Rival palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas agree president Mahmoud Abbas will head a unified government for the West Bank and Gaza.
A three-storey factory collapses in Lahore, killing three and trapping dozens.
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is in the hospital with extremely high blood pressure. The former dictator is serving a 60-year prison sentence for killing political opponents in the 1980s.
Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, discusses Egypt's plan to prosecute 19 Americans, and America's reaction to Russia and China's veto of sanctions against Syria.
President Barack Obama he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the Middle East on edge. Speaking before the Super Bowl, Obama also refused to pick sides for the big game.
" /> Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling yesterday's vote in the U.N. Security Council a "travesty." Russia and China vetoed a resolution supporting an Arab League plan aimed at ending the violence in Syria.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R) Chairman, Intelligence Committee on increase in tensions with Iran.
Supporters of Vladimir Putin have been found on the wrong side of the law in Russia.
Libya's Interior Minister talks to Nic Robertson about violence among militias and the trial of Saif al-Islam Gadhafi.
Iran will help any nation or group that confronts the "cancer" Israel, the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday. He also said warned that any military strike by the U.S. would only make Iran stronger.