Bahraini anti-government demonstrators run during clashes between protesters and the Bahraini army during a demonstration in Manama, Bahrain. Soldiers opened fire Friday on thousands of protesters defying a government ban and streaming toward the landmark square that had been the symbolic center of the uprising to break the political grip of the Gulf nation’s leaders. Officials at the main Salmaniya... 

An anti-government protester, center, shouts slogans Tuesday as Yemeni police block demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in San’a, Yemen. President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he had told U.S. allies as well as foes in the Middle East that they must “get out ahead of” growing demands for reform or risk the fates of the deposed presidents of Egypt... 

Barack Obama with King Abdullah II of Jordan (Left) The president made a weekend call to Jordanian King Abdullah II to assure him of U.S. support, but also to say that Washington wants Jordan to move toward reform. With protests rocking the Middle East, the Obama administration is reaching out to King Abdullah II of Jordan, trying to reassure a badly shaken ally of its support even as it calls for... 

A new word is launched in Russia: a Marsonaut. The six members of the simulation programme for a visit to Mars have started the third phase of the experiment, namely a Mars landing followed by the first Mars walk. The Russian flag now flies firmly and proudly on the Red Planet! Work is under way in Russia in the first active tests in the simulation phase of the manned space flight to Mars. The multinational... 

Riots are now spreading in Iran’s capital city, Tehran. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed her firm support for the thousands of opposition supporters who protested in Iran’s capital on Monday. Mrs Clinton said they deserved to have “the same rights that they saw being played out in Egypt” and that Iran had to “open up” its political system. One... 

Many ECHR judges never spent a day on the bench in their home countries. What specific benefits accrue to the United Kingdom as a result of our adhesion to the European Convention on Human Rights? It ought to be the most basic question of all, yet it is almost never asked. Most politicians, together with virtually the entire legal establishment, take our continued membership as a datum or given; yet... 

Algerian protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in Algiers. Internet providers were shut down and Facebook accounts deleted across Algeria on Saturday as thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators were arrested in violent street demonstrations. Plastic bullets and tear gas were used to try and disperse large crowds in major cities and towns, with 30,000 riot police taking to the streets in Algiers... 

Not-so-thin blue line: Riot policemen surround protesters during the demonstration. Estimates put the numbers of police at 30,000 - three times the number of protesters. Now revolution takes hold in Algeria, Hundreds arrested as ‘30,000’ riot police try to quell democracy march inspired by downfall of Hosni Mubarak. Thousands of riot police arrested hundreds of demonstrators in the Algerian... 

Egyptians celebrate the news of the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak at night in Tahrir Square. Fireworks burst over Tahrir Square and Egypt exploded with joy and tears of relief after pro-democracy protesters brought down President Hosni Mubarak with a momentous march on his palaces and state TV. Mubarak, who until the end seemed unable to grasp the depth of resentment over his three decades... 

Extraordinary scene: Tens of thousands of protesters pray in Tahrir Square the day after Mubarak once again refused to step down. Reports have claimed that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarakand his family have left the capital Cairo. TV news station Al Arabiya reported that Mr Mubarak had left for an ‘undisclosed location’, but was not thought to have fled the country. It is claimed he flew... 

French President Nicolas Sarkozy. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has censured multiculturalism a failure, joining other western leaders that have already rejected the notion despite boasting freedom as a founding principle. Sarkozy declared in a televised interview on Thursday that “I don’t want a society where communities coexist side by side” and that “France will not welcome people... 

Mubarak transfers power to vice president. Protesters enraged by Hosni Mubarak’s latest refusal to step down streamed into Cairo’s central square Friday and took positions outside key symbols of the hated regime, promising to expand their push to drive the Egyptian president out. The standoff posed a major test for the military as protesters stepped up calls for the army to intervene against... 

The office of israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered their counterpart in the Egyptian government, Omar Suleiman, also head of Egyptian intelligence, to send death squad units, the groups of militant zionist murderers who wear Arab civilian clothes also known as “mistaaravim”, to infiltrate the protesters in Egypt in order to assassinate the leaders of the opposition and the revolutionary... 

The Kuwaiti emir accepted the resignation of the interior minister Sheikh Jaber Khaled al-Sabah, seen here in 2010, who quit last month over the death of a detainee allegedly as a result of police torture. A Kuwaiti youth group called Sunday for a mass rally outside parliament on Tuesday to protest the government’s “undemocratic practices” and to press for its ouster. The group, Fifth... 

The crewmembers will soon step out on a simulated Martian surface. The crew of the Mars500 simulated mission to the Red Planet have reached a key milestone. The six men, sealed since June inside steel containers representing a spacecraft, have “gone into orbit” at their destination. Three of the group will now “descend” to the planet, don real spacesuits and walk on the “surface”...