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Hugh Sykes reports on the Arab League summit in Baghdad, where only 10 out of 22 leaders of the Arab world have turned up. It's the first time the Arab League summit has been in Iraq ...

Though often overshadowed, the Paralympics encapsulate the true Olympic spirit. This year's Olympic organizers have already sold over one million tickets, and they hope to pay 2012's ...

There are new allegations against Rupert Murdoch's news organization and new suspicions of shady tactics in a different industry altogether. An Australian newspaper has published a re...

After the years of violence and instability in Iraq, Baghdad is hosting this week's Arab League meeting. Reporter for our partner the BBC Rami Ruhayem discusses the welcome leaders sh...

Director James Cameron is back on dry land after travelling to the deepest known point on Earth, some seven miles below the surface of the ocean. He's the first person to make the div...

The European Union is expected today to ban European travel for 12 people close to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, including the travel of Assad's British-born wife, Asma. The Euro...

About 300 police officers have cornered a 24-year old man in the city of Toulouse, France. The man is believed to have murdered three French paratroopers last week and a rabbi and three children at a local school on Monday. How will the upcoming presidential election in France deal with this incident? Will it change the dialogue of the candidates?

Afghanistan President Karzai has railed for years against the large number of "guns-for-hire" in the country, arguing that private security companies skirt the law. Today is the deadline for foreign private security firms in Afghanistan to hand over to government forces, meaning a force of 40,000 private guards will be replaced by around 6,000 Afghan government guards. How well trained are these local guards? How is this move being seen by those that have relied on foreign security firms?

This morning, investors found out Apple's plans for its stockpile of almost 100 billion dollars in cash. Apple says it will use some of its money to pay a dividend to shareholders and buy back some of its shares. 

The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament held its annual puzzle-solving contest over the weekend, where decades-old rivalries are fought through pencil and grid. This year, the tournament had a new and potentially controversial unofficial entrant: a computer program called Dr. Fill.

As the revolution continues in Libya, independent radio stations have begun broadcasting in Benghazi and Tripoli, and the practice is becoming more popular. Without state censors watching their every move, broadcasters are free to spread their message far and wide. Our partner the BBC has been monitoring this and brings us this report on what role the radio is playing in revolutionary Libya.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will remain in charge of the country, despite the news that he has undergone surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. Chavez hadn't been seen in public for weeks, reportedly due to mysterious health issues he developed while traveling, forcing him to undergo emergency surgery in Havana, Cuba. This week, his absence led to the postponement of a summit of Latin American leaders that was scheduled to take place next week, and yesterday he finally gave a public address, in which he admitted he has cancer. 

Physicists used andom-matrix theory—a mathematical method for finding otherwise hidden correlations within groups of data—in the 1990s and early 2000s to predict stock market volatility. Arup Chakraborty, a chemistry and chemical engineering professor at MIT, is a researcher at the Ragon Institute in Massachusetts. Ragon and a scientific collegue used random-matrix theory to analyze enzymes, and develop new ways to treat HIV. 

Suicide bombers detonated two car bombs in the city of Diwaniya today, in central Iraq, killing 27 people and wounding dozens of others. The attacks were targeted at police barriers outside governor Salim Hussein Alwan's compound, but he was not harmed. Though there's news this week that President Obama will soon lay out his plan for possibly withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, it's still murky as to how long U.S. troops will remain in Iraq, especially given this recent turn of events. Mike Schmidt, from our partner The New York Times, joins us live from Baghdad to discuss was happened and what this could mean for U.S. involvement in Iraq. 

The battle over environmental regulations has reached a fever pitch in Kentucky. The EPA is proposing a package of major policy rules aimed at curbing emissions from coal-fired plants, drawing widespread opposition from business interests. Backers of the Kentucky's coal mining industry are fighting the EPA over regulations, with some going so far as saying Kentucky should be a "sanctuary," protected from all EPA regulations.

Coca-Cola is available nearly everywhere in the world, including many remote places in Africa, such as throughout the landlocked country of Zambia. What if medications for HIV and malaria were as cheap, widely available and heavily distributed as Coke? That's the thinking behind ColaLife, a project founded by Simon Berry, who has been an aid worker in Africa for years. Berry speaks with us about his organization.

Edward Girardet, journalist and author of Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan, is one of the few Western journalists to have met Osama Bin Laden in person. He speaks with us from the BBC's studio in Delhi, India, about the news of Bin Laden's death.

BBC correspondent Quentin Somerville speaks with us from Kabul, Afghanistan, where President Hamid Karzai may not have had any warning before Osama Bin Laden's death.

Despite reports over the weekend that Colonel Gaddafi's forces were pulling out of the city of Misrata, the uprising against Gadaffi and fighting there continues, as do his attempts to crush the rebellion. BBC reporter John Sudworth reports from the region.

Qatar has sent fighter jets by way of Greece in order to back allied forces in the military action to enforce a U.N. mandated no-fly zone over Libyan air space. It is the first Arab nation to provide military support to the coalition effort and a reminder that Qatar is an economic and political force in the region. The small peninsular country has garnered considerable influence throughout the world by creating key and conflicting allies while managing to attract investment from the West. It's site of the 2022 World Cup, and home to the Al Jazeera news network, which has been instrumental in reporting the wave of change happening in the Middle East.